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Hamilton, Stephen F. – Harvard Education Press, 2020
Career pathways (CP) has gained prominence as a strategy to ensure that high school students and displaced workers acquire the college and career readiness skills needed in a fast-changing, globalized economy. In an effort to ensure future success for CP, Stephen F. Hamilton examines the School-to-Work (STW) movement of the 1980s and 1990s and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness, College Readiness

Jacobs, Ronald L. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1988
This paper describes the training and development (T&D) profession, discusses problems in proposing a field of practice for it, and proposes a specific field of practice for T&D. It provides an impetus for continued discussion. (Author)
Descriptors: Job Performance, Labor Force Development, Performance Tests, Postsecondary Education
Lamb, Theodore A.; Chin, Keric B. O. – 1991
This paper proposes a conceptual framework based on different levels of analysis using the metaphor of the layers of an onion to help organize and structure thinking on research issues concerning training. It discusses the core of the "analytic onion," the biological level, and seven levels of analysis that surround that core: the individual, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods, Groups
Budke, Wesley E.; Kerka, Sandra – 1988
Training and development professionals play a unique role in helping people improve their performance by using all aspects of the work environment to make those improvements occur. These professions are currently debating the existence of an integrated theoretical framework and how it might support practice in their field. Human performance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Corporate Education, Human Factors Engineering
Chandler, James A.; Fulwood, Robert H.; Hill, Lynn M.; Sharp, Jeanie B.; Vincent, Keith A.; Womac, Charlie H.; Campbell, Clifton P. – 1997
A four-phase systematic approach to evaluating human resource development (HRD) programs and/or courses was developed. The approach consists of four distinct, yet interrelated phases: select evaluation targets; develop the evaluation plan; collect and analyze information/data; and prepare an evaluation report. First, 23 potential evaluation…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Job Training
Broad, Mary L.; Newstrom, John W. – 1992
This book is intended to help managers, supervisors, and employees in U.S. organizations achieve full job performance by acquiring and applying effective strategies to transfer the knowledge and skills learned in training to the workplace. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 covers the following aspects of the groundwork of transfer of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Strategies, Industrial Training
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1997
Work force development systems have three primary subsystems: youth development and preparation for employment, adult work force entry, and worker retraining and transition assistance. Programs targeting youth pose one of the greatest challenges to those striving to develop or improve work force development systems. School-to-work will not…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Strategies, Entry Workers
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 1998
The impact of labor hire companies (employment agencies) on Australia's apprenticeship system was studied. Three data collection strategies were used: literature review; survey of a random sample of 200 labor hire firms in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia; and case studies of four recruitment and labor hire firms and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Employment Practices
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1995
In 1994, Alaska began the process of using its grant funds from the National School-to-Work Opportunities Act to design a school-to-work system to meet the following objectives: obtain commitment and involvement from Alaska's governor and officials involved in human resource development; develop an implementation plan for a statewide system to…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities

Green, C. Paul; Orsak, Charles G. – 1979
Undertaking of a systems approach to curriculum development for solar training led to (1) a feasibility study to determine the role of the community college in solar energy technology, (2) a market analysis to determine the manpower need, and (3) a task analysis for development of a curriculum for training solar energy technicians at Navarro…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Conservation Education, Curriculum Development
McCullough, Cathy Bolton – 2001
An innovative session was conducted to introduce session participants to a concept and researched model for linking organizational culture and performance. The session goals were as follows: (1) give participants a working knowledge of the link between business culture and key business performance indicators; (2) give participants a hands-on…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Employer Employee Relationship, Entrepreneurship
Prescott, Carolyn A. – 1996
This paper describes the rationale, direction, and progress of the Integrated System for Workforce Education Curricula (ISWEC), a project sponsored by a 25-state consortium that is designed to accomplish two primary objectives: (1) integration of academic and vocational education in a curriculum framework for grades 9-14 and (2) development of a…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Consortia
Hughes, Jason – 2000
The learning organization is one that has a strategy of continuous organizational change, exploring and facilitating a link between the development of the organization and the personal development of the employee. These five disciplines lead the innovation of learning organizations: systems thinking (meaning the whole is more than the sum of the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Learning, Educational Theories, Group Activities
Daley, Glenn A.; Levy, Dina G.; Kaganoff, Tessa; Augustine, Catherine A.; Benjamin, Roger; Bikson, Tora K.; Gates, Susan M.; Moini, Joy S. – 2003
A study was conducted to develop tools for describing and evaluating external governance in the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) multiorganizational system of education, training, and professional development. An exploratory conceptual framework and taxonomy for understanding external governance in the DoD context was developed, and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Education, Audits (Verification), Educational Administration
King, Christopher T.; McPherson, Robert E. – 1997
Texas is shifting to an integrated, systems-oriented approach to providing work force services for its residents and employers in which all services are guided by a single mission and vision. Implementation strategies are clearly focused on achieving common results. Accountability means being able to ensure taxpayers, residents, employers, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Services