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Bowers, Robert F. – 1983
The Employability Skills System Program (ESSP) is an adult education program designed to combine academic skills with job-seeking and employability skills. The program efforts include coordinating services and creating linkages between existing delivery services within the Detroit Public School System and private business and industry. In…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Potential, Employment Qualifications, Extension Education
Download full textStreff, Deborah – 1981
A project was undertaken by the Iowa Valley Community College District (IVCCD) to provide information and instruction via cable television to persons eligible for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs. The project sought to identify and enroll at least 15 CETA-eligible persons in each of 3 programs; "TV High School,"…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Community Education, Employment Programs
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. – 1982
A project was conducted by the University of Southwestern Louisiana in cooperation with local adult education programs to develop a delivery system for adult education through expanded outreach opportunities using computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and computer-managed instruction (CMI). During the 3-year project, a homebased CAI delivery system…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Frankenburger, Lydia – 1999
This research project was conducted to identify the reasons for the low retention rate for adult students enrolled in the prep level of the General Educational Development (GED) programs offered by the Clinton County (Pennsylvania) Development Center for Adults. All adult students who attended class at least once from July 1998 through January…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Attitudes
Kimmel, Harold S.; Lucas, Geoffrey S. – 1984
A project to develop grass roots alternative diploma study (Project GRADS) was undertaken for the purpose of formulating and implementing a multimodal, systems approach to preparing rural adults to pass the General Educational Development (GED) Tests. During the year-long, countywide program, GED programming was developed and delivered via the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, County Programs, Delivery Systems
Asselle, Maria Grazia; And Others – 1988
In its second year, the Bilingual Program Resource and Training Center provided instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language development, basic education, and job counseling to about 2,355 limited-English-speaking students at 15 sites in New York City. Most were recent immigrants without a high school education. About half…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Educational Assessment
Lucas, Geoffrey S. – 1985
A study examined nontraditional, community-based rural General Educational Development (GED) programming outreach efforts in Pennsylvania. Data for the study were obtained through two computerized bibliographic searches, interviews and phone calls to the GED Testing Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and from phone calls to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Education, Community Programs
