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Hanisch, Ronald M.; And Others – 1978
An assessment team of three industrial arts educators was sent to Utah to evaluate the Industrial Arts Career Exploration (IACE) program. Since its inception in 1975, the program has been implemented in thirty-eight of the state's middle and junior high schools. The major objectives of IACE are to reorient and expand the curriculum of the…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Career Education, Career Exploration, Communications
Download full textSan Leandro Unified School District, CA. – 1968
This narrative report of a 1967 summer institute, designed to explore one of the ways of transmitting to future leaders an awareness, understanding, and tolerance for cultural differences in peoples from other nations, describes the relative effectiveness of certain methods, techniques, and procedures used in teaching experimental groups of high…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Cultural Enrichment
Lindsay, Carl A.; And Others – 1976
A project was conducted in Pennsylvania to determine what changes might improve the effectiveness of the State's adult basic education (ABE) program. Northcutt's construct of functional competency adult performance level (APL) and Mezirow's program evaluation model provided the basis for the project's two components: APL assessment and program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Croft, Roger – 1977
A study was done to (1) assess the level and extent of the current needs of Utah's cooperative education (CE) program coordinators and (2) assemble alternative solutions to facilitate planning and action intended to meet these needs. A three-step data collection process was employed to determine the principal needs. Program coordinators, students,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Needs
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2001
A study reviewed the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Labor's (DOL's) Veterans' Employment and Training Service's (VETS's) administration of the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program (DVOP) and Local Veterans' Employment Representative (LVER) program. While veterans received priority employment services at one-stop centers, VETS did…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Centers, Data Collection, Disabilities
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1996
Three evaluations analyzed program characteristics and participant results in work force education and coordination in Washington State. The Employment Security Department's evaluation of Job Training Partnership Act Titles II and III looked for an association between participant characteristics and the type of training they receive and between…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Competency Based Education, Economic Development
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2006
The state-administered grant program authorized under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), enacted as Title II of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, is the major source of federal support for adult basic and literacy education programs. The purpose of the program is to provide educational opportunities to adults sixteen…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness, Family Literacy
Young, Malcolm B.; And Others – 1995
A third-party national evaluation of the basic grants section of the Adult Education Act was conducted in September 1990. Although clients eligible for adult secondary education (ASE) constituted the largest segment of the target population, enrollments were highest in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs and most programs primarily served…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Crane, Eric C.; Dillon, Brenda M. – 1996
This report presents a summary of the work of Minnesota's State Council on Vocational Technical Education for the biennium ending June 30, 1995. Part 1 summarizes the council's research and development activities. It describes the following: trends in the distribution of state and federal funds for vocational education; conclusions of the Perkins…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Decision Information Resources, Inc., Houston, TX. – 1995
In August 1993, a third-party evaluator examined tech prep system development and implementation in Texas public schools and institutions of higher education. The second year of the evaluation focused on the following aspects of Texas' tech prep system: current status of statewide implementation, secondary school counseling, professional…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, High Schools, Higher Education
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. Evaluation Section. – 1993
This report examines the Way to Grow (WTG) school readiness program, which is designed to promote healthy development and school readiness of Minnesota children from birth through age 6 by coordinating and improving access to community-based health, education, and social services. This pilot program began in fiscal year 1990 and was being…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Community Programs, Coordination
Timmerman, Linda; And Others – 1995
The Transfer Success Work Group was established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and the Texas Association of Junior and Community College Instructional Administrators to investigate the effectiveness of the state's public community college transfer function and make recommendations for improving transfer efficiency. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students
Kleinert, Harold L.; And Others – 1990
This document presents a "Quality Program Indicators Checklist" developed with the goal of program improvement in classrooms for students in Kentucky with moderate and severe handicaps. The checklist evaluates program effectiveness in six component areas: (1) integration (interaction opportunities and teacher behaviors supportive of…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum, Disabilities, Educational Practices
Khawaja, Sarfraz; And Others – 1991
A study was made of the 36 polytechnic institutions in Pakistan in order to describe the nature of their academic programs and their relevance to the job market. Responses to questionnaires were received from 545 of 1,000 graduates, 34 of 36 principals of institutions, and 25 employers of the 184 graduates who were employed. Some of the findings…
Descriptors: College Programs, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Kallembach, Sheri, Comp.; And Others – 1992
This annotated resource list is intended to help state and local administrators of vocational special needs programs, special needs educators, counselors, researchers, and policy makers develop or improve programs and services for at-risk youth and adults. The list is not intended to be exhaustive but to list resources that are representative of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Vocational Education, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
