Over the past two decades, an innovative approach to workforce development known as sectoral employment has emerged, resulting in the creation of industry-specific training programs that prepare unemployed and underskilled workers for skilled positions and connect them with employers seeking to fill such vacancies. In 2003, with funding from the…

Discusses the nature of simulations in business education (how it differs from games and practice sets, purposes and disadvantages, and types of simulation) and the effectiveness of simulation in business education (evaluation, formal research). (CT)

The Lester Hill Corporation is the name of an office simulation enterprise for the distribution of hotel and motel equipment. The article contains a sampling of comments from teachers and students (the "branch offices") regarding the simulation's effectiveness. (AG)

Questions are raised about some cooperative education programs' implementation procedures. The writer is not opposed to the concepts of office simulation or cooperative education but does feel that serious consideration should be given to the appropriate length of these programs and to the nature of the population they serve. (Author/AJ)

Designed to measure and compare the satisfaction and satisfactoriness of office employees eighteen months after graduation from APEX model office (a simulated training program), cooperative office education, and office procedures courses, this study also sought to determine any differences among the three programs on a number of job and…

A national survey of State supervisors of office education was conducted to determine the effectiveness of their laboratory programs. Overall findings revealed that the laboratory program is a viable and reliable method of instruction and will continue to be used in the future. Specific findings are summarized in this article. (TA)

Pediatric residents from Children's Hospital National Medical Center in the District of Columbia rotate through Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland to experience pediatrics at the community level. A structured rotation in pediatricians' offices is part of the resident training program. (JMD)

Unlike ordinary computer simulations that imitate the conditions of a real-life situation and allow several variables to be input, job simulations program a microcomputer to simulate the functions of one or more pieces of business or office equipment and to provide hands-on, interactive instruction to students on how to use that equipment. Good…

This second document in a three-volume summative evaluation report presents a portion of the internal evaluation conducted by the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state region. (The three-volume report presents both…