Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 13 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 35 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 77 |
Descriptor
Adult Education | 441 |
Program Effectiveness | 441 |
Job Training | 252 |
Program Evaluation | 156 |
Employment Programs | 98 |
Postsecondary Education | 98 |
Vocational Education | 96 |
Foreign Countries | 91 |
Outcomes of Education | 87 |
Training | 78 |
State Programs | 77 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
King, Christopher T. | 6 |
Schexnayder, Deanna T. | 5 |
Grubb, W. Norton | 4 |
Hamilton, Gayle | 4 |
Nilsen, Sigurd R. | 4 |
Benus, Jacob M. | 3 |
Conway, Maureen | 3 |
Finn, Peter | 3 |
Hollenbeck, Kevin | 3 |
Lantos, Hannah | 3 |
Murk, Peter J. | 3 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Location
Australia | 15 |
United Kingdom | 14 |
Washington | 13 |
Texas | 11 |
United States | 10 |
Florida | 9 |
Ohio | 8 |
Massachusetts | 7 |
California | 6 |
Illinois | 6 |
Michigan | 6 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
General Educational… | 4 |
Adult Performance Level | 1 |
Myers Briggs Type Indicator | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
Does not meet standards | 1 |
Porfirio, Laura; Chavarín, Ana; Linzy, Megan; Lopez, Haziel; Montiel, Arnold – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Ambassador training is an exemplary leadership development program for adult education students, staff, and administrators that creates networks of diverse learners who use their voices, stories, and skills for advocacy and social change. Student engagement and leadership development help learners expand their identities and horizons, define…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Student Participation
Sasha Elbaz; Johanna Gruber; Kaotar Elberhoumi; Syeda Nayab Bukhari; Soham Rej; Harmehr Sekhon – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Older adults have become more dependent on using technologies to connect and communicate with others across the globe. This insight has since become more evident with the COVID-19 pandemic. While many older adults have increased their skills with these technologies, many more lack the necessary knowledge and skillset to effectively benefit from…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Mediated Communication, Technological Literacy, Program Effectiveness
Betsy Tessler; Surina Goel – Maryland State Department of Education, 2025
Even in good economic times, many adults in the United States have trouble finding jobs that pay enough to support their families. One policy response has been to help these workers build more skills, with promising findings from some sector-based programs that train individuals to work in specific high-demand industries. The Pay for Success Clean…
Descriptors: Energy, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Job Training
Bragg, Debra D.; Richie, Deborah; Kirby, Catherine – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
Ensuring that the federal investment in TAACCCT has a lasting legacy is important to community colleges and the nation. Exploring the notion of transformative change, this chapter describes research and development associated with the Transformative Change Initiative (TCI), including seven guiding principles to sustain and scale change in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Job Training, Adult Education
DeMand, Alex; Redd, Zakia; Lantos, Hannah; Moore, Kristin Anderson – Child Trends, 2021
Employment training organizations and agencies often work independently of each other, for reasons that may include interorganizational competition, limited knowledge of each other's strengths, separate funding streams, and lack of resources (both time and financial). To more effectively serve youth and young adults, many organizations could…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Program Effectiveness
Lantos, Hannah; Habteselasse, Sham; Moore, Kristin Anderson – Child Trends, 2021
Young adults' individual needs often differ from those of their peers in both minor and significant ways, and no single workforce training program model will meet the needs of all participants. While the workforce training system can best meet young people's various employment training needs through a vibrant network of partners and services, many…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Staff Development
Lantos, Hannah; Hanft, Sam; DeMand, Alex; Redd, Zakia; Moore, Kristin A. – Child Trends, 2021
The majority of youth and young adults in the United States who are out of work are youth of color. To better reach and support all participants, many workforce development programs are increasingly embedding a racial and ethnic equity and inclusion (REEI) approach into job skills training initiatives. Launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Adult Education
Bryan Christopher Hardman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The use of School Resource Officers (SRO's) has become an increasingly popular strategy in attempting to create safe learning environments on school campuses in the United States. The implementation of SROs saw a significant increase following the school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO on April 20, 1999. As media attention and…
Descriptors: School Safety, Police School Relationship, Educational Environment, Role
Egglestone, Corin; Klenk, Hazel; Marsh, Lucy; Sadro, Fay – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
This evaluation report presents the findings from the project-level evaluation of the CareerTech Challenge, delivered between May 2020 and June 2021. The report examines how the design and delivery of evaluations were undertaken, the findings across process and outcome evaluations and key learning from capacity building support delivered by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Online Courses, Program Evaluation
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
Tedrow, Amanda M. – Journal of Extension, 2018
The Georgia Master Composter Program is both an adult environmental education course and an Extension volunteer program addressing the growing demand for composting education across the state of Georgia. The 9-week program includes lectures by experts, hands-on learning, and field trips and differs from traditional master Extension programs…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Extension Education, Adult Education, Wastes
Keimig, William Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2018
All recent catechetical documents of the Catholic Church have in some way stressed the need to focus on the formation of adults. Lay adults certainly can be trained to be excellent catechists of other adults, but the available training usually groups together catechists for all age groups and provides little specific help to those preparing for…
Descriptors: Catholics, Adult Education, Spiritual Development, Religious Education
Beaumont, Dervla; Blakey, Tanya; Stuart, Neil; Woodward, Julia – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2021
Way to Play is an approach that supports adults to promote the engagement of young children with autism spectrum disorder through play. The Ministry of Education in New Zealand has collaborated with Autism New Zealand to ensure the sustainable delivery of Way to Play within Auckland's early learning services by training early intervention staff to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Training