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Cabrillo Coll., Aptos, CA. – 1998
This report describes an annual study done at Cabrillo College (California) of all occupational graduates and students who left the college after taking a significant number of occupational education courses. The purpose of this study is to obtain the following data from Cabrillo's former students: employment status and location, salary level,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Benefits, Employment
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Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. – Journal of Professional Nursing, 1986
A study compared the characteristics, job performance, and employment/career patterns of graduates of baccalaureate and doctoral nursing programs one year after graduation and found significant differences in the groups on each set of variables. (MSE)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bachelors Degrees, Career Ladders, Comparative Analysis
Degazon-Johnson, Roli – 2001
In the Parish of Clarendon in Jamaica, about 10 percent of infants are born to teenage mothers. Between 1986 and 1996, over 500 young mothers and their children participated in the Teenage Mothers Programme (TMP). The TMP took an approach that encompassed the development of the young women, stimulation and care for the infants, support in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Comparative Analysis
Smith, Larry; Dean, Winston – 1993
In 1992, a study was conducted at Grossmont College (GC) in El Cajon, California, to determine employment positions and incomes of former students who had left/graduated during the 3 academic years 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1987-1988 and had been enrolled in one of the following 11 vocational education programs: Accounting, Administration and Justice,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Main, 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
Bloom, Dan; Scrivener, Susan; Michalopoulos, Charles; Morris, Pamela; Hendra, Richard; Adams-Ciardullo, Diana; Walter, Johanna – 2002
An evaluation of Jobs First (JF) compared the experiences of JF participants who were subject to welfare reform policies with those of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) participants who were subject to prior welfare rules. It collected information for four years about JF's impacts on participants' children and analyzed its financial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Children
Auspos, Patricia; Miller, Cynthia; Hunter, Jo Anna – 2000
This report examines implementation and impacts of Ramsey County's Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), a "work first" program. Chapter 1 lists key findings, provides an overview of the Ramsey County variant (MFIP-R) evaluation, and policy relevance of MFIP-R. Chapter 2 describes key features of MFIP-R and compares them with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged
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Friedlander, Jack – 1993
The Post-Education Employment Tracking System (PEETS), operated by the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges (CCC) in cooperation with the State of California's Employment Development Department (EDD), is an automated system for tracking the post-college employment rates and earnings of community college program completers and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Brock, Thomas; Doolittle, Fred; Fellerath, Veronica; Greenberg, David H.; Hollister, Robinson G., Jr.; Wiseman, Michael – 1997
The New Hope Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was developed to reduce poverty and reform welfare by providing adults who are willing to work least 30 hours per week with the following: help obtaining a job, including time-limited, minimum wage community service jobs (CSJ) if full-time employment was not otherwise available; a monthly earnings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
Cicco and Associates, Murrysville, PA. – 1979
A retrospective comparative analysis of data collected between 1975 and 1979 was undertaken at Westmoreland County Community College (WCCC) to quantitatively determine the impact of WCCC's developmental education program on: (1) the persistence and academic performance of underprepared students; (2) the college's financial situation; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Riccio, James; Friedlander, Daniel – 1992
The first findings of an evaluation of California's welfare-to-work program, Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), related to its impact on employment, earnings, and welfare payments. The impact results came from a study of applicants for and recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in six counties and were limited to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Dincher, J.; Meltesen, Cal – 1990
In 1989, a follow-up study of nursing program graduates was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to examine their employment patterns, further education plans, and evaluate particular aspects of their WRHC experience. Questionnaires were mailed to 105 nursing students who graduated in 1988. Results were compared with previous surveys…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Walker, Yvonne Kimmons; And Others – 1974
The document represents an integral part of a study undertaken as an evaluation of the impact of institutional training on women. The re-analysis of data for the Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA) Outcome Study, using measures such as job placement, length of training, post-training income, and the completion of training, indicates that in…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Employed Women
Hu, Teh-wei, And Others – 1968
This study was concerned with the optimum allocation of public resources in education, and involved a comparison between vocational-technical education and an alternative curriculum for non-college attending students. Major steps in the study were: (1) identification of costs and benefits, (2) collection of representative data, (3) determination…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors
Lucas, J.; Meltesen, C. – 1992
In 1990, a follow-up study of nursing program graduates was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, to examine their employment patterns, further education plans, and evaluate particular aspects of their WRHC experience. All 98 nursing students who earned 48 credit hours in 1990 were mailed questionnaires 1 year…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
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