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Peijen, Roy; Wilthagen, Ton – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
As in many other countries, individuals with disabilities in the Netherlands have difficulties in establishing sustainable careers. In the Netherlands, "Royal Philips" offers a work-experience program with the possibility to follow vocational education. Based on national register data, a control group was constructed that includes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Work Experience
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Kiefer, Cynthia; Kottkamp, Laura; McQuaid, Jana; Moses, Justin – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
Underemployment, which occurs when baccalaureate degree holders are employed in occupations that do not require or fully use a college-level degree (Lederman, 2018), challenges the notion that a college degree alone adequately prepares a student for a satisfactory level of employment based on education level. During 2018 and 2019, the higher-ed…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Underemployment, Predictor Variables
Sevak, Purvi; Feeney, Kathleen; Honeycutt, Todd; Peterson, Emily – Mathematica, 2021
The Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program offered high school students with disabilities an individualized and targeted approach to strategically plan for their futures. The Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) designed LLC to build on its usual services for high school students to emphasize unpaid and paid work-based learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Hamovitch, Marc A.; Baker, Meryl S. – 1983
SELECT is a system designed to streamline the process of determining proper ratings and assigning pay grades to potential Navy lateral entry accessions, i.e., the enlistment of personnel with the appropriate training and qualifications as petty officers. It uses a cross-reference index to convert civilian occupations to Navy ratings that was…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Employment Level, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
Angle, John – 1980
This research project set out to provide information to young people about which occupations would provide them with the most valuable experience, valuable being defined in terms of later earnings. The project attempted to measure the value of on-the-job learning in terms of future income and to identify sequences of occupations which would…
Descriptors: Achievement, Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Recent educational approaches that have career and technical education (CTE) components have integrated work-based learning (WBL) with traditional academics. Among positive effects of the association between WBL and secondary students' educational outcomes are: (1) increased attendance, (2) decreased dropout rates, (3) increased number of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Career Academies, Career Education