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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This report describes and evaluates the initial data collection system of the Department of Labor's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and focuses on recently proposed revisions to reporting requirements. Focus is placed on the collection of data on the Title II program for disadvantaged youths and adults. After describing the system generally,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Information Needs
Peer reviewedAshenfelter, Orley – Review of Economics and Statistics, 1978
Available from: the North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (JG)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Economics, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study was conducted of the use of outcome measurement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and states to determine whether JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) program participants are finding employment and leaving welfare. In order to assess the progress that HHS has made in establishing outcome indicators and goals,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Federal Programs, Information Needs, Job Training
Bassi, Laurie J. – 1980
A study was conducted to develop a theoretical framework for unbiased estimation of the dynamic net impact of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs on participants' earnings. (The possibility of selectivity bias arises from the non-random nature of participation in the program. That is, if participation is a function of…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs
Bell, Stephen H.; And Others – 1995
This monograph critiques the many nonexperimental impact estimation approaches that have been based on external comparison groups. It proposes an approach to evaluating employment and training (E&T) programs that calls for using the group of individuals who apply to a program but then choose not to participate in that program as an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Employment Programs, Evaluation Research
Feldman, Deborah – 1990
This report synthesizes information from many sources about state and local Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) evaluation activities and issues. The report's five sections are interrelated, but each can stand alone as a discussion piece on JTPA evaluation. The first section, on the role of evaluation in JTPA, outlines the rationale for doing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Doolittle, Fred; Traeger, Linda – 1990
Research on the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) included a sample of more than 20,000 people in 16 service delivery areas (SDAs). The random assignment model for the study produced estimates of the impact of the overall JTPA program in this sample of SDAs, plus separate impact estimates for individuals recommended for…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLah, David; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1986
The results of long-term follow-up evaluations of two youth pre-employment programs: 70,001 Ltd. and Jobs for Youth. Participant outcomes were analyzed using data from two follow-up waves. Results indicated that participants demonstrated initial earnings gains from these programs. Over time the initial positive effects decayed. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Kemple, James J.; And Others – 1993
One part of a study of the difference that services under Title IIA of the National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) make in the employment, earnings, and welfare receipt of adults and out-of-school youths served by the program focused on the following: recruiting sites, monitoring the implementation of the research design, and describing and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Bouder, Annie; And Others – Training & Employment: French Dimensions, 1993
The increasing use of job training or retraining and employment programs in response to high rates of unemployment in France has spurred interest in program evaluation to see what results have been achieved. The contribution of traditional standardized evaluations and of emerging methodologies is being examined. Traditional evaluation methods…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1980
This report contains procedural guidelines to assist local Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsor staff members in developing a labor market analysis of the local economy. The guidelines are designed to be used in conjunction with other materials that have been developed by the United States Department of Labor. The focus…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Employment, Employment Programs
Zahniser, Gale – 1981
This report provides for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors who are responsible for labor market information, a set of guidelines to follow for developing an agency-wide plan for the operational use of labor market information. The body of the report outlines step-by-step procedures for creating such a plan. A brief…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Employment, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Goldfarb, Robert S. – 1968
This thesis attempts to deal with difficult methodological problems of program evaluation; the particular programs considered are two types of manpower training programs: institutional or "classroom" training and government-subsidized on the job training. Characteristics of cost-benefit analysis are investigated and the method is…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Doctoral Dissertations, Employer Attitudes
Schochet, Peter Z.; Burghardt, John; Glazerman, Steven – 2001
A study involving random assignment of all youth eligible for Job Corps to either a Job Corps program or to a control group was conducted to assess the impact of Job Corps on key participant outcomes. Participants in the study were nationwide youth eligible for Job Corps who applied for enrollment for the first time between November 16, 1994, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Crime, Crime Prevention
Barnow, Burt S., Ed.; King, Christopher T., Ed. – 2000
This book, which is intended for policymakers, administrators, and researchers, contains 13 research papers and reviews of the literature on increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training. The following papers are included: "Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market" (Burt S. Barnow, Christopher T. King); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
