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Combs, Paul W.; McGough, Robert L. – 1980
This monograph is one of 12 that address various topics in the area of CETA/education linkages. They were designed to provide those individuals interested in the development and implementation of CETA/education linkages with information that will serve to enhance the quality of existing programs and facilitate the efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Models
Peer reviewedBraithwaite, Ronald L.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1982
Using selected concepts, format, and techniques from the legal arena, the Judicial Evaluation Model was used to assess the efficacy of linkage arrangements between the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors and education service providers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (PN)
Descriptors: Employment Services, Evaluation Methods, Interviews, Models
Peer reviewedLawther, Wendell C.; Gromelski, Raymond A. – Evaluation Review, 1984
This study examines recent manpower training evaluation studies to illustrate how local program managers can evaluate their programs for greater program effectiveness. An evaluation model was developed to assess the long-term impact of specific classroom and on-the-job training programs on selected participants. Guidelines for program planning are…
Descriptors: Administrators, Evaluation Methods, Models, Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedDickinson, Katherine P.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1987
Net impact estimates of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs vary widely and can be explained by the different evaluation methodologies used. Estimates are sensitive to the inclusion of recently unemployed persons in the comparison sample and assumptions about the time of decision to enroll in CETA. (GDC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedStromsdorfer, Ernst W. – Evaluation Review, 1987
Seven studies commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor measuring the net market impacts of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act are reviewed. Their purpose was to generate informed debate on the efficacy of quasi-experimental designs and structural economic models to evaluate federally subsidized employment and training programs. (BS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Job Training
Peer reviewedFinifter, David H. – Evaluation Review, 1987
Estimates are presented for net earnings impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act programs. Net impact was linked to the human capital model and estimated for numerous subgroups. The matching procedure and the use of quasiexperimental versus experimental design are also discussed. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHeckman, James J.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1987
Recent evaluations of manpower training claim that: (1) nonexperimental methods produce unreliable estimates of program impacts and (2) randomized experiments are necessary for reliability. National Supported Work Demonstration data are used to reexamine nonexperimental estimates of net program impact on posttraining earnings of high school…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLaLonde, Robert; Maynard, Rebecca – Evaluation Review, 1987
Two studies used experimental data to evaluate nonexperimental methods of program evaluation for employment and training programs. Results of both studies indicated that the nonexperimental methods might not accurately replicate the experimental estimates. Also, new methods for constructing comparison groups yielded little improvement over…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Peer reviewedBryant, Edward C.; Rupp, Kalman – Evaluation Review, 1987
Estimates of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's net impact on participant earnings, using Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey data, were compared to a similar sample from the Current Population Survey. The use of multivariate matching and weighting yielded acceptable results. (GDC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Lutz, Larry L.; And Others – 1978
An evaluation was conducted to determine the usefulness and effectiveness of the Washington Occupation Information Service (WOIS) materials and training workshops. Eighty-five Youth Employment and Training Project (YETP) counselors and administrators from twenty-one Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) sites throughout Washington…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Failure
Download full textZornitsky, Jeffrey J.; And Others – 1981
This guide was developed to help Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors to meet their responsibility for assessing the effectiveness of their efforts by examining the extent to which CETA participation has enhanced the longer-term income and employability status of former enrollees. As part 1 of a series, this document…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
On July 31, 1978, the U.S. Senate Committee on Human Resources held a hearing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the problem of youth unemployment. In particular, the effectiveness of the CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and YEDPA (Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act) programs concerned the Committee. Following an opening…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Grubb, W. Norton – 1995
Recent studies of the effectiveness of the following types of job training programs were reviewed: mainstream job training (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and Job Training Partnership Act programs); welfare-to-work; experimental; job training for specific population groups; and specific services. Special attention was paid to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1988
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was heralded as a major overhaul of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program. Five years after passage of JTPA, the answer to the question of whether it has indeed managed to remedy CETA's shortcomings appears to be an unequivocal maybe. Although the JTPA has been praised by numerous…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged
