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Lynch, Richard L.; And Others – Journal of Vocational and Technical Education, 1992
A Virginia study confirmed the value of school-supervised on-the-job training experiences and identified critical quality control factors: related classroom instruction, individualized training plans, criteria for site and supervisor selection, written training agreements, frequent formal and informal evaluation, use of advisory groups, parental…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, High Schools, Outcomes of Education
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Stone, James R., III; And Others – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1990
A survey of high school students in school-supervised work experience programs (N=101) and non-school-supervised jobs (N=177) found that the former have higher quality jobs that make greater use of academic skills, have more contact with adults, experience more challenge, consider their work meaningful, and perceive a closer relationship between…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, High School Students, High Schools
Work in America Inst., Scarsdale, NY. – 1978
A study of high school work experience programs was designed to explore the work environment in regard to employer policies, practices, processes and program ingredients to gauge their impact on high school student workers during the school-to-work transition. Two work experience programs were analyzed (North Terrytown, New York, and in Newark,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Exploration, Case Studies, Cooperative Education