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Furthering the Recognition of Women's Career-Relevant Skills. (Project HAVE Skills.) Interim Report.
Download full textEkstrom, Ruth B.; And Others – 1979
Objectives of Project HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills are to develop, validate, and field test educational planning and experiential evaluation materials which can be used by women, counselors, and employers in assessing the skills which women have acquired from their volunteer work and homemaking experience. Progress to date has…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Females, Homemakers, Homemaking Skills
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1980
Methods and materials to assist colleges in evaluating the competencies that women acquire from their volunteer and homemaking experiences are described, including a counseling process based on the use of an "I can" list. Methods of dealing with faculty and administrative concerns about this type of experiential learning evaluation are…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Credits, Counseling, Evaluation Criteria
Ekstrom, Ruth B.; And Others – 1980
The influx of an unprecedented number of reentry women into educational programs and paid work requires more research on the transferability of women's competencies and life experiences to specific occupations. A questionnaire was developed to survey the life experiences of adult women (N=131) who were participating in various programs of career…
Descriptors: College Credits, Competence, Experience, Experiential Learning
Gruenberg, C. Brooke; Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
Project ACCESS, funded by the Office of Education and Employment of the U.S. Department of Education, is developing and field testing a method to further the recognition of women's life experience learning. In order to determine the transferability of women's life experience learning to employment and to vocational education, three activities were…
Descriptors: Adults, Advanced Placement, Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1978
A study was made to identify the competencies women gain from their volunteer work and homemaking experiences and to develop materials helpful to women and to colleges in evaluating these experiences for college credit. By a review of the literature and interviews and surveys of adult women, the investigators identified fourteen volunteer work…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Students, College Credits, Experiential Learning
Ekstrom, Ruth B.; Lockheed, Marlaine E. – 1976
Materials to facilitate the evaluation of the competencies women acquire from domestic and volunteer work were developed, so that academic credit might be awarded for these skills, and so that women's entry or re-entry into post secondary education might be enhanced. The project staff reviewed the literature, contacted volunteers and volunteer…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Skills, Check Lists, Classification
