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Direct linkSchochet; Peter Z.; McConnell, Sheena; Burghardt, John – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2003
The National Job Corps Study has been conducted since 1993 to provide Congress and program managers with the information they need to assess how well Job Corps attains its goal of helping students become more responsible, employable, and productive citizens. The cornerstone of the study was the random assignment of all youths found eligible for…
Descriptors: Program Costs, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education, Control Groups
Glazerman, Steven; Schochet, Peter Z.; Burghardt, John – 2000
This report examines the extent to which Job Corps improves literacy and numeracy skills. Chapter I provides an overview of Job Corps and discusses key policy issues related to basic skills and study objectives. Chapter II addresses study design issues, interview response rates, and analytic methods used to estimate program impacts on literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills
Burghardt, John; Schochet, Peter Z. – 2001
The question of whether the Job Corps's impacts on students' employment and related outcomes differ according to the characteristics of the Job Corps center attended was examined. The study sample consisted of approximately 9,400 program group members and 6,000 control group members who were randomly selected from among the nearly 81,000…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Services, Delivery Systems, Differences
Burghardt, John; McConnell, Sheena; Meckstroth, Alicia; Schochet, Peter; Johnson, Terry; Homrighausen, John – 1999
The National Job Corps Study was conducted in 1994-1996 to provide a thorough and rigorous assessment of the impacts of the Job Corps on key participant outcomes. To ensure that the study was well implemented, a study team from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., (MPR) investigated outcome and admission (OA) procedures in each Job Corps region and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Education, Community Relations, Comparative Analysis
