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ERIC Number: ED325634
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Jul
Pages: 13
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Services Provided to JTPA by National and State Level Vocational and Technical Educational Curriculum Centers. Study Report.
Douglass, Rebecca S.
A national network of six regional curriculum centers and at least 40 state-level curriculum materials centers are designed to identify and provide job training materials. These centers are supported with funds from federal and state legislation for vocational and technical education. The extent to which services of these centers are currently being provided to Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs was the focus of a survey conducted in April 1990. The survey was sent to 47 curriculum centers, with a response rate of 70 percent (33). Of those responding, 79 percent (26) reported that their services were offered to and being used by JTPA agencies and contractors. Types of service being provided included, in order of frequency, free loan materials (85 percent); technical assistance in locating materials for purchase, development, and use (65 percent); use of database (65 percent); telephone consultation (58 percent); workshops and displays at JTPA-related conferences (42 percent); and other services (27 percent), including purchase of texts/videos to meet JTPA needs, sales, and assistance in proposal writing. Types of resources requested most frequently by JTPA included job-specific curriculum guides, basic skills materials, and task lists. Services are being provided by 89 percent of the responding centers without benefit of a formal agreement, and funding by JTPA for services was found in only five instances. The study recommended that formal agreements should be made between JTPA agencies and curriculum centers for service and materials. (KC)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Job Training Partnership Act 1982
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