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Roberts, Keith J. – 1984
Building on previous research on the future skill needs of workers in southeastern Wisconsin, a study was conducted at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) to gather information on the machine tool industry in the Milwaukee area. Interviews were conducted by MATC Machine Shop and Tool and Die faculty with representatives from 135 machine shops,…
Descriptors: Computers, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes, Employment Projections
Dizer, John T., Jr. – Ind Arts Vocat Educ Suppl - Tech Educ, 1970
An approach to a two-year machine tool laboratory program that is based on stated objectives. Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to IAVE. (GR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Machine Tools
Crosby, Richard K. – 1987
This guide was prepared to assist in determining the mathematics that should be included in drafting, electricity, electronics, and machine shop programs. Information for the guide was obtained by asking teachers from every postsecondary vocational school in Kentucky to respond to a questionnaire listing mathematics competencies for their…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Drafting, Educational Needs
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1968
This regional trade union seminar was attended by representatives from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The purpose was to consider the job profiles and tasks in the machine tools and automobile industry in 1980, and to consider the vocational and general education needs of young people to help them…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Employment Projections, Foreign Countries
Lewis, James P.; Burrows, Robert T. – 1983
This study was conducted to provide information on equipment needs, the extent of planning to upgrade equipment, and technological advancements necessary to continue providing quality training to entry-level students and incumbent workers. The results were based on a 98 percent return from 72 area vocational-technical school directors, 17…
Descriptors: Educational Equipment, Educational Needs, Educational Trends, Equipment Utilization
Mercer County Schools, Princeton, WV. – 1984
A project was undertaken to identify machine shop occupations requiring workers to use computers, identify the computer skills needed to perform machine shop tasks, and determine which software products are currently being used in machine shop programs. A search of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles revealed that computer skills will become…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Educational Needs
Nashville - Davidson County Metropolitan Public Schools, TN. – 1984
This scope and sequence guide, developed for a diesel mechanics vocational education program, represents an initial step in the development of a systemwide articulated curriculum sequence for all vocational programs within the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System. It was developed as a result of needs expressed by teachers, parents, and the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Auto Mechanics, Behavioral Objectives, Course Content
American Vocational Association, Arlington, VA. – 1981
Evidence gathered through interviews with members of trade associations, unions, professional societies, business, and industry as well as data obtained from the Department of Labor, congressional testimony, and publications of the commerical and trade press reveals that the shortage of skilled workers in America is reaching crisis proportions.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Smith, Arthur De W. – 1979
The Generic Skills studies were designed to provide training specifications that will enable graduates of trades training programs to compete for job placement in a range of occupations rather than in a single occupation. The studies identified a number of trade families, classified on the basis of skills used in work performance, and also…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Craft Workers, Educational Needs, Electrical Occupations
Smith, Arthur De W. – 1979
This pamphlet provides a hierarchy of skills, from those most often used in the craft trades to those less frequently used, indicating the extent to which these skills are used by workers in 24 different occupational groups. The pamphlet also provides a secondary school vocational model for craft trades along with lists of the identified skills.…
Descriptors: Auto Body Repairers, Building Trades, Craft Workers, Educational Needs
Maier, Esther – 1981
Because a need existed for better articulation between the metal trades programs offered at area high schools and at Blackhawk Technical Institute in Janesville, Wisconsin, a program of communication with the high schools was developed. This communication was expected to lead to a smoother transfer of students from one level of training to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competence, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Planning
Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale. – 2001
This document, which is intended to serve as a guide for work force preparation program providers, details the Illinois occupational skill standards for programs preparing students for employment in jobs in the plastics molding industry. Agency partners involved in this project include: the Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Community…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Competence, Competency Based Education