A Texas State Job Training Coordinating Council task force developed a series of recommendations regarding improving Texas' current employment and training system to prepare the state's residents for the "smart jobs of the future." A formal literature review was conducted, and regional forums were held and attended by a wide range of…

This index contains abstracts of 173 doctoral dissertations about the following aspects of adult self-directed learning: program areas of adult education (AE); instructional methods/techniques; institutional sponsors of AE; personnel and staffing in AE; education of particular clientele groups; processes of program planning and administration;…

This document, the fourth of five volumes that comprise the final report of the National Assessment of Vocational Education focuses on programs and services provided for special population groups targeted by the 1990 Perkins Act. Chapter 1 assesses the extent to which states and localities are fulfilling responsibilities concerning special…

Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

Standardized vocational education course titles and core contents are provided for two courses in Mississippi: agriculture, grades seven and eight. The first course contains the following units: (1) agricultural careers; (2) leadership and Future Farmers of America (FFA); (3) public speaking; (4) parliamentary procedures; (5) introduction to…

This curriculum guide can be used by secondary and postsecondary agriculture, technology, and marketing instructors to decide what and how to teach about agricultural business organization and management, especially in Iowa. The guide consists of five instructional units: (1) agribusiness organization and management; (2) livestock sales and…

This report of a conference on guidance school education contains papers from plenary and concurrent sessions, information on the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) business meeting, and on awareds presentations, copies of the CGS constitution and bylaws, and a CGS member institution list. Papers and presenters are as follows: "The Graduate…

Designed to guide local organizations of contractors and journeymen in establishing and improving local apprenticeship systems, this booklet contains the latest revision of the National Joint Carpentry Apprenticeship and Training Committee standards pertaining to the basic requirements for effective apprenticeship. In a section on adapting…

This curriculum guide deals with electrical occupations clusters. The first section of the guide introduces vocational and career education in general, and electrical occupational education in particular; provides definitions of commonly used terms; and lists guidelines for establishing acceptable secondary vocational programs in Oregon. In the…

Designed to assist teachers and administrators in developing curricula for secondary vocational home economics programs, this publication provides materials for the two programs that comprise vocational home economics education--consumer and homemaking education (CHE) and home economics related occupations (HERO) programs. The CHE program is…

The volume provides comparative data for faculty salaries in public and private colleges, based on an annual survey of over 700 colleges and universities. The following 15 disciplines are included: nursing, philosophy and religion, physical education, physical sciences, physics, political science and government, psychology, reading education,…

To fulfill the sex equity mandate begun in the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments and continued in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984, and to assess the degree of change in vocational sex equity in Virginia over the last several years, this status report covering a five-year period (1980-1984) was developed. The opening…

This guide is designed for use in helping junior and senior high school students explore the field of electricity and electronics as a potential career area. Included in the manual are the following materials: definitions, a key to the organization and numbering code and symbols used in the lists of objectives, lists of general and program…

The Adult and Continuing Education: Noncredit Activities in Institutions of Higher Education machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a periodically obtained subfile of the larger Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). Its purpose is to obtain a measure of the extent to which individuals beyond compulsory school age (but that are not…

These proceedings contain summaries of the panel discussions and workshops as well as texts of the individual papers and reaction papers presented at a conference that focused on key issues of concern to educators and industry involved in the education and training of agricultural machinery technicians. Addressed during the conference were the…