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Download full textCronen, Stephanie; McQuiggan, Meghan; Isenberg, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This First Look report provides selected key findings on adults' attainment of nondegree credentials (licenses, certifications, and postsecondary certificates), and their completion of work experience programs such as apprenticeships and internships. This version of the report corrects an error in three tables in the originally released version…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Attainment, National Surveys, Certification
Gray, Lucinda; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This report is based on the 2016-17 survey "Career and Technical Education Programs in Public School Districts" and provides nationally representative data on career and technical education (CTE) programs. The survey defines a CTE program as a sequence of courses at the high school level that provides students with the academic and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Public Schools, School Districts, Sequential Approach
Dunster, D. F. – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1982
Defines sandwich courses as those with practical periods sandwiched between academic periods. Describes a study that indicates that students need preparation for the practical periods to give them the best chance of obtaining a good learning experience. (JOW)
Descriptors: Engineering, Job Skills, Research Methodology, Skill Development
Reid, Joseph M.; Miles, Guy H. – 1974
The Rural Youth Program, a model Neighborhood Youth Corps program based on previous research, was designed to maximize social and occupational adjustment of rural youth in the North Central States. Although the program's first year (1972-73) was not a full year, it was initially evaluated at three sites (northern Minnesota, southern Iowa, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Control Groups, Employment Patterns, Experimental Groups
Newton, Mark – 1975
Objectives of the study were (1) to develop and implement an alternative work experience program for a middle school; (2) to test the effect of the program on attitudes toward school, career maturity, and vocational interests of the students; and (3) to provide information and procedures for a model work experience program. Western Kentucky…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Exploration, Educational Testing, Experimental Programs
Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant. – 1974
Central Michigan University has been operating an external degree program for the Honolulu Model Cities Program since February 1972. The Institute for Personal and Career Development (IPCD) is the component that extends the goals of the program--equal access to education for personal enrichment, career alternatives, and increased upward…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Planning, Consortia, Counseling
Washington, Wanda; Zyskowski, Gloria – 1998
School-to-Career describes a system of integrated school-based and work-based learning that integrates academic and occupational learning in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) (Texas). Between August 1997 and May 1998, 9,662 students were enrolled in career and technology courses in the district. During the 1997-98 school year, the AISD…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, High School Students
Miles, Guy H.; And Others – 1969
Phase two of the report on the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) is aimed at finding whether systematic relationships exist between identifiable deficiencies in the rural community and the occupational and social adjustment of rural youth. NYC, designed for rural and urban communities to keep youth in schools, was studied in phase one through a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counseling, Employment Opportunities, Low Income Groups
Seyfarth, John T.; And Others – 1973
The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
Powers, Thomas F.; And Others – 1974
The instructional system which emerged from the Pennsylvania State University three-year project was a seminar practicum for Hotel and Food Service paraprofessional workers which provides work experience, a set of self-instructional modules, subject matter, a weekly seminar discussion, and encourages minority/lower income students. A summary of…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, External Degree Programs, Food Service
Ranson, James T.; And Others – 1973
The report assesses the ability of the 44 Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) students to maintain their expected academic competence as measured by a nationally normed achievement test, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, administered at different times during the 1972-73 program year. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1974
The interim evaluation of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL), a community-based alternative curriculum for high school seniors, was not intended for general readers and its terminology is for that reason quite technical. The report's first section briefly describes the EBCE…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs
McCormick, Tom – 1974
The Career Opportunities Program (COP) is a nationwide career training model to improve the learning of low-income children in poverty area schools by employing low-income community residents and Vietnam veterans as teacher aides, while they attend college in preparation for careers in education. Two questionnaires were used in this study. The…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Higher Education, Job Training, Low Income Groups
Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Inc., Sydney (Australia). – 1997
The nature and quality of the school-industry programs through which year 11 and year 12 Australian students incorporate periods of learning in the workplace into their senior school studies were examined to identify differences between the programs offered in Australia's various states and territories. The study was based primarily on data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Reid, Joseph M.; Miles, Guy H. – 1973
The second of two final reports covering the second phase of a research program designed to maximize social and occupational adjustment of rural youth presented baseline data gathered for use in a future (February 1974) evaluation of program effectiveness. A model program for rural youth in the North Central States, the results of previous…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Educational Status Comparison
