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Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The National Reporting System (NRS) is the accountability system for the federally funded, State-administered adult education program. It addresses the accountability requirements of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA-P.L.105-220). This document presents (1) the NRS measures that allow…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Battel-Kirk, Barbara; Van der Zanden, Gerard; Schipperen, Marielle; Contu, Paolo; Gallardo, Carmen; Martinez, Ana; Garcia de Sola, Silvia; Sotgiu, Alessandra; Zaagsma, Miriam; Barry, Margaret M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Background: The CompHP Pan-European Accreditation Framework for Health Promotion was developed as part of the CompHP Project that aimed to develop competency-based standards and an accreditation system for health promotion practice, education, and training in Europe. Method: A phased, multiple-method approach was employed to facilitate consensus…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Health Promotion, Competence, Quality Control
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Sharabi, Moshe – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the influence of the human resource (HR) manager on the quality of service in an academic college, and the human resource management (HRM) outcomes of the process. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relates to a customer satisfaction survey. More than 120 questionnaires were completed by the…
Descriptors: College Environment, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Participant Satisfaction
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This literature review, undertaken for Australian Industry Group, shows how multiple variations and combinations of formal, informal and non-formal learning, accompanied by various government incentives and organisational initiatives (including job redesign, cross-skilling, multi-skilling, diversified career pathways, action learning projects,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Informal Education, Experiential Learning, Quality Control
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Human Resources. – 1977
The Committee for Study of Environmental Manpower (CSEM), responsible for this report, was appointed by the Commission on Human Resources to review the literature in the field of environmental manpower and to make recommendations. The Committee involved experts from government, industry, environmental organizations, and the general public. In this…
Descriptors: Employment, Environmental Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
Prifrel, Robert J.; And Others – 1985
The validity of the Training Benefit Forecasting Method (TBFM) in a quality-based electronics manufacturing organization was studied. Participants were approximately 75 people involved in the manual production of circuit boards in a division of Control Data Corporation. Five training options to reduce the number of defects produced during…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Electronics Industry
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1992
The Advisory Committee on Federal Workforce Quality Assessment was chartered to examine various work force quality assessment efforts in the federal government and provide advice on their adequacy and suggestions on their improvement or expansion. Objective data in recent research suggested that a universal decline in work force quality might not…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Qualifications, Federal Government
Brethower, Dale M.; Smalley, Karolyn A. – Performance and Instruction, 1992
Presents a model for evaluating performance-based instruction that is intended for use by human resource development/performance technology professionals. Highlights include goal setting; program design and implementation; evaluating the use and impact of training; instructional tasks, including sequencing; quality of student products; and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Instructional Design
Isaacs, Gertrude – 1977
Largely descriptive, this final report of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) chronicles development and implementation of a Family Nurse Practitioner (PRIMEX) training program in a rural area from 1972-76. Centered in Leslie County, Kentucky, this project was one of seven PRIMEX programs in the nation; accomplishments in all of the projects far…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Decentralization
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Gasco, Jose L.; Llopis, Juan; Gonzalez, M. Reyes – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
This paper addresses the influence of information technology in human resources management (HRM) and specifically on training policy through the experience of a Spanish telecommunications firm, "Telefonica". The characteristics of the training model designed by this firm to face new environments is considered and the technologies used,…
Descriptors: Time Management, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Human Resources
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Belanger, Charles H.; Mount, Joan – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1998
Survey of 74 Canadian universities suggests prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) is gaining legitimacy because of the government/industry agenda to prepare the workforce, growing emphasis on lifelong learning, changing demographics, and students' conviction that learning outside the classroom should be validated. Quality assurance and…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Virginia State Dept. of Economic Development, Richmond. – 1993
The Workforce Virginia 2000 Advocacy Council committee recommends that for Virginia to respond effectively to the growing global challenge, it must take positive action aimed at improving the productivity and skills of its work force and establishing high performance work organizations. Virginia must shift to a high performance work organization…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Employer Employee Relationship, Futures (of Society)
Morgan, Fred; Roseen, Darien – 1974
With manpower considerations assuming an ever increasing importance for the Department of Defense, the report was prepared as part of a research program intended to bring new methodologies to bear on present and future military manpower problems. The report describes the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) recruiting, classification, and assignment (RCA)…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Aptitude
Ganzglass, Evelyn, Ed. – 1992
This volume contains an introduction and four policy option papers that explore key issues affecting the economy and state options to address the issues within the context of the U.S. workplace. "Introduction" (David Bedford, Evelyn Ganzglass) discusses the issues identified in the first phase of the governors' initiative on Excellence…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economics, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Wacker, Gabrielle Banick, Ed. – 1987
The following are among the 45 papers included in this proceedings: "Labor Force Changes in the United States: Implications for Education and Training" (Kutscher); "Industry, Employment, and Family Income: Wisconsin's Status" (Stoner); "Future Demographic and Social Trends" (Zach); "International Business in…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Allied Health Occupations
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