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Download full textNational Association of Counties, Washington, DC. Research Foundation. – 1973
A brief guide to the "new profession" of manpower planning (the allocation of very limited resources for the delivery of a wide range of possible services), this report contains information about the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) and serves as an outline, or planner's primer, for manpower planning. Eligibility…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid
Love, Lois Thiessen; And Others – Evaluation Forum, 1988
This supplemental issue deals with local and state evaluation issues and methods. It includes articles on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) follow-up, responsiveness to client needs, performance standards, training JTPA professionals in evaluation, and Private Industry Councils' selection of program deliverers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Job Performance
Peer reviewedHeckman, James J.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1987
Recent evaluations of manpower training claim that: (1) nonexperimental methods produce unreliable estimates of program impacts and (2) randomized experiments are necessary for reliability. National Supported Work Demonstration data are used to reexamine nonexperimental estimates of net program impact on posttraining earnings of high school…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLaLonde, Robert; Maynard, Rebecca – Evaluation Review, 1987
Two studies used experimental data to evaluate nonexperimental methods of program evaluation for employment and training programs. Results of both studies indicated that the nonexperimental methods might not accurately replicate the experimental estimates. Also, new methods for constructing comparison groups yielded little improvement over…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
This Planning, Management, and Evaluation (PME) guide was developed by the National Alliance of Business as part of its program of management assistance for Private Industry Councils (PICs). The guide is a tool which PICs can use to improve their capability to plan, manage, and evaluate the programs which they administer, and to establish locally…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Guides, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Coughlin, David C.; Bielen, Rhonda P. – 1981
This paper has been prepared to assist the United States Department of Labor to explore new approaches to evaluating and measuring the performance of employment and training activities for youth. As one of several tools for evaluating success of local youth training programs, "benchmarking" provides a system for measuring the development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Benchmarking, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Criteria
McManus, Walter – 1983
Modeling and data collection efforts needed to develop a test of the effectiveness of adult literacy and language training programs in increasing the earnings of trainees are reviewed. After reviewing the framework developed for the Manpower Development and Training Act and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) evaluations and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
Ganzglass, Evelyn – 1980
Using a "Knowledge Development Plan" prepared as a blueprint, the Office of Youth Programs of the Department of Labor has undertaken various demonstration projects and large-scale evaluation and complementary research studies. The Office is experimenting with alternative employment and employability development approaches for…
Descriptors: Business, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Development
Bruno, Lee – 1978
In this monograph, methods and models for revising or developing intake and assessment activities, facilitating enrollee success, and offering other program benefits are presented. The report, divided into four chapters, describes intake and assessment in chapter 1. Intake is defined as any process controlling the enrollee's flow into a program at…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Agency Role, Aptitude Tests, Cost Effectiveness
