This document summarizes the findings of currently available evaluation studies of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and other related reports and data. Data from 26 studies conducted between 1980 and 1986 are presented under the following subject headings: the state role (monitoring and oversight, policy interpretation and leadership, management information systems, management of the governor's set-aside, coordination, technical assistance, administrative organization); the role of the Private Industry Councils and local elected officials (roles and relative impacts, policy differences, organization and staffing); the Title IIA program (participant characteristics, services, performance standards); the Title III program (program build-up, state administration, enrollee characteristics, recruitment, results); the Wagner-Peyser Amendments (state-level coordination with JTPA, effect of funding changes, impact); the federal role in job training programs; the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (policy interpretations, marketing and recruitment, services, results); the summer youth programs; the Job Corps (cost-benefit and process summaries); and the occupational outlook (occupational training, private sector demand, the dislocated worker supply). A bibliography lists the summarized studies. (MN)