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Download full textMassachusetts Career Development Inst., Springfield. – 1997
This guidebook highlights important components involved in establishing and monitoring a successful workplace education program (WEP). Chapter 1, Workplace Education, addresses the changing educational workplace; recognizing need for workplace education; and a new educational model for workplace learning that focuses on integration of basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Employer Employee Relationship
Moscowitz, John E.; Eveslage, Sonja A. – 1980
The Project for the Evaluation of Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction (PENSI) was designed to: (1) develop and validate a model for the evaluation of educational and training programs found in business and industry, joint apprenticeships, state agencies, or Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) facilities; (2) identify counseling…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Community Colleges
Parkersburg Community Coll., WV. – 1979
The activities of the Industrial Campus Project (Ind-Camp), designed by Parkersburg Community College to provide business/industry plant workers with access to educational opportunities directly at the scene of their employment, are described in this report. This final report, covering activity from January to June 1978, describes project…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
LEVINE, MARVIN J. – 1964
DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES, A NUMBER OF UNIONS HAVE HELPED MEMBERS TO RETRAIN TO COPE WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE OR TO UPGRADE TRADE OR CRAFT SKILLS, AND SOME UNIONS HAVE PARTICIPATED WITH EMPLOYERS IN JOINT APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS AND SIMILAR EFFORTS. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROVISIONS FOR RETRAINING HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO KEEP AS MANY WORKERS AS…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Collective Bargaining, Cooperative Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Moore, Allen B., Ed.; And Others – 1975
Third in a series of five, the document presents case study reports of site visits to cooperative adult education programs. The five locations visited included programs between: (1) Wharton County Junior College and Johnson Testers, Inc. (Texas); (2) Louisiana State Department of Education and B. F. Trappey and Sons (Louisiana); (3) Grand Rapids…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
Anchorage Literacy Project, AK. Workplace Literacy Project. – 1994
The Anchorage Workplace Literacy (AWL) program was designed to train adult workers who have inadequate basic skills. The "Skill Books Go to Work" model developed in a previous National Workplace Literacy Program was used and modified as needed for the job-specific environments of nine business partners. Job task analyses were done at the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Course Content, Education Work Relationship
Morse, Susanne W. – 1984
Current types of industry-sponsored educational programs, training facilities, and teaching and evaluation methods are described. The history of education and training within the corporate world and the roles of government and unions are traced. Factors that have limited college and industrial cooperation in employee education are also identified.…
Descriptors: College Role, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Government Role
Martin Marietta Corp., Baltimore, MD. – 1992
Essex Community College (ECC) implemented an onsite workplace literacy program for Martin Marietta (MM) employees with the cooperation of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 738. Assisted by the working committees with representatives from all phases of the project, ECC and MM staff cooperated to develop a recruitment video, brochures, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation
Literacy Investment for Tomorrow-Missouri, St. Louis. – 1991
This Skills Development Program (SDP) provides a generic set of actions employers could take to ensure that their organization has the work force skills necessary to compete globally today and tomorrow. The guide is organized by the 13 critical steps of the SDP: (1) determine if there is a need for improving workforce skills; (2) set specific…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs
Lessard, Richard – 1993
For the past 4 years, Alpena Community College (ACC) in Michigan has been involved in the Workplace Partnership Project (WPP), a federally funded program which brings basic skills classes into the worksite to help upgrade employees' math, reading, writing, problem-solving, and science knowledge. The college works with partner companies to help…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Employer Employee Relationship
Nagy, Mark C.; Gregory, Lynn W. – 1984
This report contains findings from a study to examine the impact of Pennsylvania's Customized Job Training (CJT) program upon clients (trainees), business/industry, local education agencies (LEAs), and local communities and the commonwealth. Chapter 1 details study purposes, design, and procedures. Chapter 2 presents a summary description of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Entry Workers, Improvement Programs, Inplant Programs
Munoz, Maria D.; Munoz, Marco A. – 2000
Training interventions can be evaluated by calculating return on investment (ROI) and cost-benefit analysis. The four-level model proposed by Kirkpatrick is the dominant evaluation model used. Calculating ROI has been a critical issue for trainers and executives, but only a few organizations have implemented the process that is considered as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo. – 1997
This report describes the Productivity Training Project (PTP), a partnership between the University of Southern Colorado and Latino Chamber of Commerce (LCC) of Pueblo. The project provided "new economy skills" training to employees of LCC member businesses and basic skills training to the unemployed or underemployed. The report explains…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Inplant Programs, Job Skills
Mosenthal, Peter B.; Hinchman, Kathleen A. – 1993
An evaluation of this Syracuse, New York workplace literacy skills improvement project had three purposes: to characterize changes in the baseline performance of adults' workplace literacy skills as a function of instructional treatment; to characterize changes in workers' and supervisors' perceptions of worker effectiveness as a function of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Greenville Technical Coll., SC. – 1993
These three documents (final performance report, evaluation report, methodology guide) are products of a project through which the Career Advancement Center provided workplace literacy services to two industries in Greenville, South Carolina. The final performance report discusses achievement of objectives, specifically employee assessment,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Inplant Programs
