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Direct linkEgan, Toby Marshall; Song, Zhaoli – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Results from a pretest-posttest randomized field experiment study with a control group comparing the impact of high- and low-level-facilitated mentoring programs on new employees' performance and perceptions about their jobs and organization were reported in this paper. Results indicated increases in job satisfaction, organizational commitment,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Program Effectiveness
Download full textMaynard, Rebecca; And Others – 1979
An interim evaluation was conducted to determine the impact of the National Supported Work Demonstration (NSWD) on employment of four target groups: Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients, ex-drug-addicts, ex-offenders, and youths. The evaluation was based on data collected in interviews with 2,830 persons--1,419 of whom were offered…
Descriptors: Adults, Control Groups, Crime, Demonstration Programs
Berlin, Gordon; Bancroft, Wendy; Card, David; Lin, Winston; Robins, Philip K. – 1998
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a Canadian social demonstration and research project designed to test an employment alternative to welfare. The SSP makes work pay by offering generous earnings supplements to long-term, single-parent welfare recipients who find full-time jobs and leave Canada's Income Assistance (IA) welfare system. The SSP's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Control Groups, Demonstration Programs
Doolittle, Fred; And Others – 1993
This report summarizes the National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Study, which examined the impact of Title IIA of JTPA on participants' employment, earnings, and welfare receipt. Between 1987 and 1989, more than 20,000 adults and out-of-school youths who applied for JTPA services in 16 areas across the country were randomly assigned to a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Data Collection, Employment Programs
Main, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
Schochet; Peter Z.; McConnell, Sheena; Burghardt, John – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2003
The National Job Corps Study has been conducted since 1993 to provide Congress and program managers with the information they need to assess how well Job Corps attains its goal of helping students become more responsible, employable, and productive citizens. The cornerstone of the study was the random assignment of all youths found eligible for…
Descriptors: Program Costs, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education, Control Groups
Freedman, Stephen – 2000
The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies was conducted to explore whether programs examined in the evaluation have helped welfare recipients move into the labor force and remain employed over the long term. As part of the evaluation, a study was conducted to identify the 4-year impacts that 10 programs in 6 sites have had on former…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level
Burghardt, John; McConnell, Sheena; Meckstroth, Alicia; Schochet, Peter; Johnson, Terry; Homrighausen, John – 1999
The National Job Corps Study was conducted in 1994-1996 to provide a thorough and rigorous assessment of the impacts of the Job Corps on key participant outcomes. To ensure that the study was well implemented, a study team from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., (MPR) investigated outcome and admission (OA) procedures in each Job Corps region and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Education, Community Relations, Comparative Analysis
