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Direct linkEvans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper and funding and accountability consultation set out the Government's plans to introduce a greater focus on the outcomes of learning, including a new Skills Measure that looks at the employment and other outcomes that learners achieve. Will this give colleges and providers greater freedom to deliver for learners, or…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Employment
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Download full textMcKay, Elspeth; Vilela, Cenie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to outline government online training practice. We searched individual research domains of the human-dimensions of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), information and communications technologies (ICT) and instructional design for evidence of either corporate sector or government training practices. We overlapped these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
McKinney, Floyd L.; And Others – 1978
The project summarized here focuses on the interpretability of vocational education outcome data. The booklet first covers the project problem and background, project objectives, general plan of operation, and the analysis of extant data bases in vocational education. It then discusses a case study of differences in job placement rates reported by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Job Placement
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
The central purpose of this paper is to describe the origins, assumptions, approaches, and problems of the major evaluation efforts relating to vocational education specified in the Educational Amendments of 1976. The first of five chapters provides background information on vocational education, evaluation, and the Education Amendments of 1976.…
Descriptors: Activities, Board of Education Role, Educational Assessment, Federal Regulation
Skindle, John D., Ed.; Greenwood, Katy L., Ed. – 1977
Focusing on the improvement of graduate programs in vocational education, this monograph is organized into two sections. Section 1 reports the results of a survey initiated by the National Resource Panel of graduate programs in vocational education in the United States. Section 2 contains working papers used in a workshop which addressed the…
Descriptors: College Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Quality, Graduate Study
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1978
One- to six-page summaries are presented of fifty-six 1977 annual reports of the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education. Most of the summaries, arranged in alphabetical order, address the effectiveness of vocational education programs, services, and activities in meeting the objectives as set forth in the state plan and recommend changes…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Medrich, Elliott A.; And Others – 1994
This report examines data and data quality on vocational education and training available from the seven highly developed countries that make up the G-7: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Following an introduction, chapter 2 describes the nature of vocational education and training opportunities at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1977
One- to four-page summaries are presented of fifty-five of the 1976 annual reports of the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education. Most of the summaries address the effectiveness of vocational education programs, services, and activities in meeting the objectives as set forth in the State Plan and recommend changes warranted by the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Coordination
Davis, Edward L.; And Others – 1976
A review of the literature was conducted to identify the current status and direction of the effort to meet the individual needs of the disadvantaged student through vocational education. The major data source was the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) collections for the time period between 1960 and 1975. Data was subdivided into…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Educational Trends
Bregman, Ralph – 1977
Observations and recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (NACVE) are presented based on its participation in a series of management evaluation reviews designed to assess the degree of state compliance with the requirements of current law, P.L. 90-576 (the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968). Section 1 reviews…
Descriptors: Administration, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Coordination
Campbell-Thrane, Lucille, Ed. – 1979
This publication presents a data collection system useful in measuring the success of vocational programs for special needs populations as well as current descriptive/demographic information on special needs populations nationwide. The first of four chapters provides a general characterization of special populations and specific definitions for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Bilingual Students, Data Collection, Disadvantaged
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1979
This vocational education handbook for secondary schools in Wisconsin is designed to serve as a resource for local coordinators and persons who plan and develop vocational programs for comprehensive high schools. The first of eight sections focuses on general and administrative guidelines. Among the areas included in the section are (1)…
Descriptors: Accounting, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Long Range Planning
Adams, Kay A.; And Others – 1977
A national study of the vocational education programs in 164 large cities was conducted to explore perceived needs; determine the priority of these needs; and compare the priorities in terms of city size, geographic location, and minority concentration. Data was collected through interviews, a mail survey, and a literature review. After the needs…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Demography, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs
Bushnell, David S. – 1975
This paper describes the formal and informal processes used to evaluate vocational education programs, examines their impact on appropriations, priorities, and policy recommendations, and addresses the question of what policy options for vocational education Congress ought to consider as it confronts legislative renewal. Several criteria are…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Federal Legislation, Labor Market
Edington, Everett D.; Cruikshank, Kathleen – 1979
This report was developed as a result of a study that was conducted to identify and describe evaluation programs in vocational technical education at the national level, within the state of Wisconsin, and within selected local school districts in Wisconsin. The first of five chapters reviews the procedures used to synthesize evaluation programs.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Federal Government, Federal Regulation
