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Download full textGoldwair, William; And Others – 1981
This catalog provides Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors with a description of resource and curriculum materials used by the School District of Philadelphia in its instructional programs. (Some of the resources are available for the cost of reproduction.) The first section contains resources for the following vocational…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids
Allen, Keith; Fielding, Marvin R. – 1981
A project was conducted at State Fair Community College (SFCC) in Sedalia, Missouri, to develop an associate of science degree curriculum in renewable energy resources and their application in agriculture. A pilot study, designed to verify and rate the importance of 138 competencies in fuel alcohol production and to ascertain employment…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Alternative Energy Sources, Associate Degrees
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville. Dept. of Vocational Education. – 1978
This curriculum guide is designed for Arkansas ninth-grade students to explore business careers through the use of competency-based instructional materials. Exploratory business teachers are asked to incorporate the twenty-three units of study into a sequence best suited to their teaching style. Units include such topics as "Social Security,""What…
Descriptors: Accounting, Banking, Business Communication, Business Correspondence
Bachman, Jerald G.; And Others – 1978
This book, the sixth in a series of longitudinal studies initiated by the Youth in Transition Project, examines change and stability and educational and occupational attainments of young men. During the eight year study, nationally representative samples of over 2,000 young men were surveyed and their experiences from 10th grade through five years…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Dropout Research
Aller, Curtis C.; And Others – 1978
An experimental and demonstration project was conducted over a five-year period in California to test the concept of lay-off time training to enable workers to qualify for promotion and increase their earnings. The canning industry was found to be a suitable area for this type of training since it had annual lay-offs followed by assured recalls to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Demonstration Programs
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Focusing on health occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include dispensing opticians, electrocardiograph…
Descriptors: Administrators, Emergency Squad Personnel, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
2002
This document contains two papers from a symposium on learning on the job. "Professional Crisis Workers: Impact of Repeated Exposure to Human Pain and Destructiveness" (Lynn Atkinson-Tovar) examines the following topics: (1) the secondary and vicarious traumatic stress disorder that affects many professional crisis workers who are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counselors, Definitions, Developing Nations
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined private-sector workforce training practices for information technology (IT) and non-IT professionals. Data were collected from the following sources: a literature review; discussions with academic and professional authorities; interviews with executives and managers at leading companies regarding their…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Corporate Education, Delivery Systems
Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale. – 2002
These Illinois skill standards for the agricultural laboratory and field technician cluster are intended to serve as a guide to workforce preparation program providers as they define content for their programs and to employers as they establish the skills and standards necessary for job acquisition. They could also serve as a mechanism for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production
Knox, Alan B. – 2002
This book presents systematic guidelines and practical tools to assist adult and continuing education program coordinators in planning and conducting successful program evaluations. Chapters 1-3 explain how to accomplish the following tasks: (1) assess their existing experience and familiarity with evaluation concepts and procedures; (2) identify…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Context Effect
Smith, Dorothy E. – 2001
A descriptive study observed the transmission of manual job skills from older to younger men in working class communities in Ontario and the effects of massive downsizing in industrial plants on this process. Current as well as previous ethnographic research was used. Some of the outcomes of the continual downsizing included the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Background, Cultural Context
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 2001
This document focuses on Ohio's need for a skilled workforce. It begins by introducing the Specialization Ohio Integrated Technical and Academic Competency (ITAC) profiles. Each Specialization ITAC represents a profile of the professional or occupational competencies deemed essential for a person to perform proficiently when graduating from the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills
Bernhardt, Annette; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark S.; Scott, Marc A. – 2001
The changes in career development and upward mobility in response to recent changes in the U.S. labor market were examined in a study that included an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Analysis of the data, which covered the period 1966-1994, established that the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Coordination, Definitions
Social Europe, 1996
This document summarizes the debates that occurred at a European seminar on the adaptation of workers to industrial change. The document begins with the following three speeches: "The Challenges of Adapting Workers to Industrial Change" (Dominique Balmary); "Objective 4 of the Structural Funds: A Response to the Double Challenge of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Competition, Economic Change, Educational Needs
Smith, C. Selby; Ferrier, F.; Anderson, D; Burke, G.; Hopkins, S.; Long, M.; Maglen, L.; Malley, J.; McKenzie, P.; Shah, C. – 2001
This report provides an overview of the economics of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia and on the changes and policy development in VET over the past decade. The book is organized in seven chapters, with the first chapter providing an overview of the scope, background, and changes of VET in Australia during the 1990s, as well as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations
