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Download full textHowe, Michael – 1987
This manual was designed to help educators collect both general and specific information regarding labor market conditions within their community. Such information can be used to design employment training programs that will serve the needs of local employers as well as provide more information regarding employment opportunities for students…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Beaudin, Bart – 1982
This fact sheet provides an overview of the employment situation facing older adults. Statistics (Harris 1974 and 1979) are presented on the number of older Americans who are working, volunteering, or have an interest in working or volunteering; the attitudes of employers and employees about retirement and about working after age 65; and the…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Phillips, Melinda R.; And Others – 1979
This handbook explains the components of the North Carolina Career Information and Guidance Data Base. (This database is a three-volume statewide career information and guidance system that is being built to offer counselors and clients computerized access to standardized occupational and educational information.) Outlined in the handbook are the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Databases, Disabilities, Educational Counseling
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (DOL/ETA), Washington, DC. – 1981
This training package, consisting of information concerning the content, use, and applications of the Occupational Information System (OIS), is designed for use in a training presentation conducted for administrators, trainers, counselors, job placement specialists, and economic development staff who will be working with the OIS. Included in the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Definitions, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Kerka, Sandra – 2000
The renaming of vocational education (VE) as career and technical education (CTE) has been motivated partly by the need to address VE's image. However, name changes go beyond concern for image. Today's CTE offers broader career pathways than did previous VE programs. After a decade of academic-vocational integration and tech prep, it is recognized…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Development, Career Planning, Education Work Relationship
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Center for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1988
This document provides the procedures and instruments through which vocational education program personnel may evaluate or reevaluate the value and effectiveness of their program. It was prepared to help secondary vocational educators prepare for self-evaluation of their programs and site visits by educational personnel as part of a statewide…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes, Employment Patterns
Eads, Freeman D.; And Others – 1983
This instructor's guide consists of materials for use in helping students enrolled in postsecondary vocational or technical education programs to master technical communications skills. Addressed in the 13 individual units of the guide are the following topics: speaking skills (telephone usage/conversation and informal speech preparation);…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Employment Patterns
McKee, William L.; Froeschle, Richard C. – 1985
This monograph is designed to provide nontechnical users, including policymakers, program planners, curriculum developers, career counselors, and job development and placement specialists, with an introduction to applied labor market analysis of local conditions. Addressed in the individual chapters of the guide are the following topics: the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Factors
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Center for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1988
This document contains an overview of the Wisconsin Secondary Vocational Program Evaluation Project and guidelines for educators making evaluation site visits to the 55 schools evaluated in 1986-87. The first section of the guide introduces the evaluation program and outlines its components. Three following chapters cover: (1) goals of the team…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes, Employment Level
SRA Technologies, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1985
This training package is designed for use by staff of the U.S. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training who are participating in a course dealing with apprenticeship in the future. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: employment trends of the future (computers, robotics, communications, growth and declining…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Dickens, Ben H. – 1983
This paper outlines a model identification procedure for vocational educators to use in determining new and emerging occupations. Reviewed first are major available works dealing with identifying and planning for new and emerging occupations. Detailed discussions are provided of the various components of the model. The first phase of the model to…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demand Occupations
Rothwell, William J. – 2002
This book explains how work organizations can create a workplace climate that encourages real-time, on-the-job learning and development of competent workplace learners, who are wiling and able to seize the initiative for identifying their own learning experiences and evaluating the results. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
