The 1997 graduates of the Detroit Public Schools, Michigan, were asked to respond to a survey about their perceptions of the quality of their high school experience and to provide information about their employment status and postsecondary education. A total of 1,099 usable questionnaires was received from the graduates, a 17.6% response rate. Of…

This document provides background about the physically handicapped, relevant legislation, and the results of both the business and industry survey and the graduate/completer follow-up conducted during the project reported in CE 026 163. Chapter 1 reviews selected references dealing with legislative mandates and disability statistics of the…

A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS MAILED TO THE STATE DIRECTOR OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN EVERY STATE AND TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO OBTAIN DATA CONCERNING THE NUMBER AND TYPE OF FULL-TIME HIGH SCHOOL AND POST-HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL TEACHERS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED AND THE PROJECTED NUMBER OF TEACHERS THAT WOULD BE NEEDED DURING THE NEXT 3 YEARS. THEY WERE…

A study was conducted by the Iowa State Department of Education to gather follow-up data on former students who completed employment-preparation programs at one of the 15 community colleges in Iowa during 1984-85. Study findings, based on college data and responses from 1,091 of a sample of 3,676 program completers and 444 of 583 employers of…

A follow-up study was made of the graduates of the 1973 Los Angeles City College registered nurse program in order to: (1) evaluate the program's effectiveness and value, (2) counsel current and future students in the program, (3) answer questions of legislators, accrediting bodies, and other interested groups, and (4) improve the quality of…

A follow-up survey was conducted of all clients of Wisconsin's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) services whose cases were closed between October 1988 through November 1989. Of the 9,052 surveys mailed out, 2,498 (27.6%) were returned. The following percentages of program completers reported some kind of work within 6 months of leaving…

A study examined the degree of reindustrialization underway and planned for in the greater Toledo area located in northwestern Ohio. It also analyzed the perception of manpower requirements needed to support such a reindustrialization effort. During the study, researchers reviewed literature dealing with current employment patterns and labor needs…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO PROVIDE A DESCRIPTIVE BASE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION. BASIC DATA WERE PROCURED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH SELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, EDUCATORS, AND OWNERS AND MANAGERS OF BUSINESSES DEEMED BEST QUALIFIED TO PROVIDE THE DESIRED INFORMATION. THE REPORT INCLUDES--(1)…

The objective of a project was to make vocational educators aware of the many job titles for which physically handicapped persons are currently employed and to aid in planning vocational programs for them. The project identified a list of occupational titles held by physically handicapped individuals, identified teaching procedures for the various…

The premise of this study is that to understand the needs of adult women in vocational education, stereotypes regarding life and work patterns of adult women must be discarded. The purpose of this study is to gain further understanding of how women's family responsibilities and prior education have influenced their working lives and how each of…

This study of the Northern Plains States (Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin) post secondary educational facilities for training craftsmen and operatives for manufacturing and related industries was conducted by means of a questionnaire survey. For each occupation in which training was offered, schools were requested…

A survey was conducted to determine the need for health occupations personnel in the Moraine Valley Community College district, specifically to: (1) describe present employment for selected health occupations; (2) project health occupation employment to 1974; (3) identify the supply of applicants for the selected occupations; and (4) identify…

Part 1 of the project aimed at determining unmet vocational-technical education needs in the State of Maryland which might be met through residential education; Part 2 was designed to study the possible alternatives for meeting the needs discovered and to make recommendations regarding how these could best be met. A summary of Part 1 of the…

The second four-year follow-up study of the Jackson County Adult Evening High School Completion Program was made to determine the effectiveness of the program in terms of the financial, social, or personal gains of the graduates. The study concerns the graduating class of 1968 (111 graduates) fairly evenly distributed as to sex (40% men and 60%…

This publication presents detailed information from the responses of over 63,000 Technical and Further Education (TAFE) graduates and 4,100 TAFE module completers (non-graduates of the TAFE program) to a survey about the types of students who undertook training during 1998. Section 1 compares key results for graduates and module completers. It…