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Calman, Ruth C. – 1984
As a follow-up to a 1981-82 formative evaluation of Scarborough's (Ontario) cooperative education program, an outcomes-oriented study of the program was conducted in 1983. The study, which involved surveys of cooperative education and control group students, employers, teachers, and parents, focused on program outcomes related to student attitudes…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Brady, Elaine – 1984
A study examined the level and type of integration and coordination that exist among local employment and training practitioners and local and state educational agencies and institutions in the delivery of employment and training services as mandated by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). To gather data for the study, researchers conducted…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Delivery Systems, Economic Development
Welch, Frederick G. – 1979
A study was conducted to develop baseline information about the cost effectiveness of cooperative vocational education to be used in teacher education programs in Pennsylvania. Information gathered included data on cost effectiveness, types of occupations for which students were prepared, the effect of school dropout and youth employment on local…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Capstone Experiences, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
Cantor, Jeffrey A. – 1985
The Maritime Trades Program is a cooperative training program that was established through the joint efforts of 14 shipyards in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Established in 1980, the program originally operated under the guidelines imposed by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Now, however, the program operates in accordance…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Ockerman-Garza, Janet; And Others – 1982
An analysis was made of the case histories of two Georgia State University (GSU) "cooperative models" for the delivery of career education and formal academic services to economically disadvantaged groups. One of the models served primarily black, primarily female Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants by providing…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
This document reports on findings of the studies on vocational education that the Education Amendments of 1976 directed the National Institute of Education to conduct. The introduction overviews these studies of vocational education programs conducted under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (VEA) and other related programs conducted under the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Consumer Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1976
This first volume of a two-volume report of a New York State consortium for career education contains the dissemination report and project performance and evaluation reports from two of seven component districts, Allegany Board of Cooperative Educational Services and East Aurora Union Free School District. (Volume 2 contains reports from the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Community Resources, Consortia
Dakota State Coll., Madison, SD. – 1976
The purpose of the South Dakota Career Education Project was to establish demonstration centers for the development and advancement of K-12 career education in the state. These demonstration centers were also intended to serve as a national model for the delivery of career education services. The major objective was to provide a program of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Support
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences. – 1978
This volume contains nine case studies describing the initial two-year experiences of local governments in implementing the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). (An earlier volume published eight similar area studies on the transition from federally centralized to decentralized manpower programs.) Written by resident field…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Control, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Dineva, Nedka – 2000
A survey of "STW [School-to-Work] Partnership Effectiveness and Sustainability" was conducted as part of a larger evaluation of the entire STW efforts in West Virginia. The findings of the study, drawn from responses from 51 STW directors, 53 businesses, and 11 labor organizations, include the following: (1) the partnership concept is…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Cooperative Education
Alpena Community Coll., MI. – 1993
These materials include a report, evaluation, and book written about a workplace literacy project involving education (Alpena Community College), business and industry (Besser Company and Alpena Power Company), and labor (Thunder Bay Labor Council). The report specifies objectives; accomplishments, including development of eight courses in math,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges
Capital Community-Technical Coll., Hartford, CT. – 1995
The Alliance for Workforce Skills (AWS), a public/private partnership, provided adult basic skills training to employed and unemployed men and women in the Greater Hartford area. Many goals were not met, due in large part to the massive downturn in the Hartford economy. Only one of the four sponsoring corporations was still an active AWS partner…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1991
This 3-year follow-up report describes actions taken by the Illinois Council on Vocational Education (ICoVE) during 1989, 1990, and 1991. It addresses the 66 suggestions and 56 recommendations of 9 technical reports (spanning 1987 and 1988) related to special populations. Recommendations from 1987-88 and follow-up actions are reported on the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Correctional Education
Yakima Valley Opportunities Industrialization Center, WA. – 1998
This document consists of an evaluation report and a curriculum guide from a National Workplace Literacy project designed to demonstrate the process and effects of literacy classes held in work environments through the Yakima Valley (Washington) Opportunities Industrialization Center. The report notes the following results: (1) of 1,976 workers…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Rayman, Paula; And Others – 1990
An evaluation of the Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative brings together three phases: (1) a pilot outcome study conducted with a sample of six local workplace education programs and featuring the perspectives of workers, labor, and management; (2) program profiles for seven federally funded workplace education programs coordinated by the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Age Differences
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