ERIC Number: ED366773
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 54
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NCRVE Change Agent, 1990-91.
NCRVE Change Agent, v1 n1-4 Fall 1990-Win/Fall 1991
These four issues of volume 1 (1991) contain brief reports on published research of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE). In Issue 1 are these eight articles: "Twelve Exemplary High Schools: Preparing Vocational Students for College"; "High School Vocational Education Withering Away?"; "Separate or Integrated High Schools: What's Best for Students?"; "Learners with Special Needs: Vocational Education Resources"; "Reforming Education for Work: Some Guidelines from Cognitive Science"; "Our Changing Workplace: Impact on Skill Requirements"; "Investments in People: Data to Support the Value of Vocational Education"; and "Coordination between Voc Ed and JTPA [Job Training Partnership Act] Programs: Local Successes." Issue 2 contains six articles: "How Should We Use Data to Improve Education?"; "'The Cunning Hand, the Cultured Mind': Integrating Vocational and Academic Education"; "The Beginning Vocational Teacher: Spotlight on the Induction Process"; "Customized Training and Economic Development: New Roles for Vocational Education"; "Generic Skills: Teaching and Learning for the Workplace"; and "Community College Research: An Update." In issue 3 are seven articles: "Does Work Enhance Student Success?"; "Co-op Education Students Find College and Work Mutually Reinforcing"; "NCRVE Human Resource Directory"; "How Do Successful Vocational Education Administrators Behave?"; "Adult Vocational Education: Issues for the 90s"; "Nontraditional Student Attrition: A Model"; and "Education and the Economy: Monitoring the Interaction." The five articles in issue 4 are "How are Teachers Responding to Integration?"; "Part-Time Faculty in Community Colleges: Staff Development Issues"; "Professional Development Programs: Lessons Learned"; "The National Assessment of Vocational Education"; and "Vocational Education Policies: An Overview." (YLB)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Beginning Teachers, Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Curriculum, Job Training, Nontraditional Students, Persistence, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Role of Education, Secondary Education, Special Needs Students, Student Attrition, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers
NCRVE Materials Distribution Service, Western Illinois University, 46 Horrabin Hall, Macomb, IL 61455 ($25 annual subscription).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, CA.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Job Training Partnership Act 1982
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