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Job Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Peck, Laura R.; Camillo, Furio; D'Attoma, Ida – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2009
This article presents a creative and practical process for dealing with the problem of selection bias. Taking an algorithmic approach and capitalizing on the known treatment-associated variance in the X matrix, we propose a data transformation that allows estimating unbiased treatment effects. The approach does not call for modelling the data,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Intervention, Experiments, Comparative Analysis
Smith, Thomas J. – 1982
The development and performance, through 1981, of Private Industry Councils (PICs) in 16 study sites are described and assessed in this report. (PICs were set up under Title VII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to serve as a hub for attracting increased private sector involvement in employment and training activities for the…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training
MDC, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1980
A review was conducted to assess early initiatives by Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors in knowledge development under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The review was based on two waves of site visits to a total of 19 prime sponsors, in May-June, 1979, and in November-January, 1979-80. From…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Barocci, Thomas A.; And Others – 1978
This monograph includes two reports describing the results of three years of field research on the implementation and impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Eastern Massachusetts. They represent a thorough and detailed study of the problems faced by prime sponsors in the initial years of CETA. The first report, CETA in…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Backer, Thomas E. – 1979
To comply with the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and with explicit federal guidelines for equal employment opportunity, local employment and training agencies funded by CETA need to develop client assessment programs. This volume and its companion are designed for this purpose. Five original program descriptions, and findings…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Counselors, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Evaluation Forum, 1988
The author comments on significant methodological issues emerging from substantial studies of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act which are highly relevant to evaluations of the Job Training Partnership Act. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation
Booth, G. Geoffrey; Koveos, Peter E. – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1982
A telephone survey of Rhode Island employers sought to determine their attitudes toward the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), CETA-trained employees, and state CETA office assistance. Employers had generally favorable impressions but expressed the need for less red tape, better ability screening, and closer monitoring of the type…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs, Program Evaluation, State Programs
Pfister, Linda; And Others – 1981
This handbook is designed to assist employment and training agency staff in developing, adopting, and implementing an effective intake program for employment and training programs. An introductory section explains the purposes of the handbook and presents an overview of the intake process. In the next section, the action planning guidelines are…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Vocational Education, Eligibility, Employment Programs
Franklin, Paul L. – 1979
A description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) precedes an examination of the CETA network. The three fold purpose of CETA is (1) to establish a flexible and decentralized system of federal, state, and local programs; (2) provide job-training and employment opportunities for the economically disadvantaged who are unemployed,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Fottler, Myron D.; And Others – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1981
This study provides a baseline of information concerning the organizational and managerial characteristics of CETA prime sponsors in one region of the country. It also relates these characteristics and other more traditional program and participant variables to program outcomes. (CT)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Job Training, Labor Turnover, Management Development
1981
This paper provides a non-technical summary of the plans and rationale for eleven CETA-Education Demonstration Projects. It also explains the design of the projects and indicates what is expected of the participating prime sponsors, education agencies, and federal departments. Seven principles relating to the need to alleviate youth unemployment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Herrnstadt, Irwin L.; And Others – 1977
A case study of the introduction of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Boston was conducted (1) to chronicle and analyze the changes in employment and training planning and programs as the federal policy changes from a centralized and categorical policy to a decentralized and decategorized one, (2) to examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, City Government
Curtis, Thomas D.; And Others – 1976
The objectives of this study were to (1) develop a methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of CETA, title I vocational and technical education classroom training in Florida by assessing the vast quality of cost and benefit data and the different ways in which these data are categorized, (2) use data to derive benefit-cost ratios, (3) examine the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Educational Programs, Employment Programs

Bloom, Howard S. – Evaluation Review, 1987
Participants in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act-sponsored classroom training, on the job-training, and subsidized work experience were compared to a Current Population Survey sample. Female participants in all types of training had increased earnings (primarily due to increased employment), while males did not. (GDC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Income