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Peer reviewedSink, Jack M.; Gannaway, Thomas W. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1981
Studied the possible increase in motivation for occupational information-seeking experiences through the use of job samples. Army recruits (N=164) were either exposed to 10 job samples from the Vocational Evaluation System or not. Results indicated those experiencing work samples had significantly greater self-initiated information-seeking…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Employment Experience
Download full textMain, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
Direct linkMcClanahan, Wendy S.; Sipe, Cynthia L.; Smith, Thomas J. – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
To determine the impact of the Summer Career Exploration Program (SCEP), a privately funded summer jobs program for low-income teens, P/PV examined the lives of over 1700 applicants. These youth were randomly assigned to participate or to not participate in SCEP in the summer of 1999, and their outcomes were compared at four and twelve months…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis
