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Los Angeles City Schools, CA. – 1961
WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION ENABLES THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO BE EMPLOYED UNDER SCHOOL SUPERVISION WHILE CONTINUING HIS EDUCATION IN SCHOOL. THE REPORT POINTS OUT THE SUCCESS AND THE BENEFITS OF SUCH A PROGRAM TO THE STUDENT, THE EMPLOYER AND THE COMMUNITY. THE EVALUATION IS BASED ON THE SCHOOL YEAR 1960-61 AND 4,900 STUDENTS AND 43 HIGH SCHOOLS IN…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High School Students, Job Placement, Program Evaluation
FIELSTRA, CLARENCE – 1961
THE PROGRAM HAS OPERATED SINCE 1953 IN FIVE COMMUNITIES. HIGH SCHOOL PERSONNEL HAVE DEVELOPED A WORK-STUDY PROGRAM IN AN ATTEMPT TO HELP STUDENTS--(1) MAKE BETTER OCCUPATIONAL CHOICES, (2) GAIN THE NECESSARY PREPARATION FOR THEIR CHOSEN WORK, (3) FIND PLACEMENT ON THE JOB, AND (4) ADJUST TO AND GROW ON THE JOB. THREE FORMS OF WORK EDUCATION ARE…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Choice, High School Students, Job Placement
Bucknam, Ronald B. – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1976
Evaluating Experience-Based Career Education was complex; four different programs were created by developer laboratories within common parameters. Evaluation was primarily formative, but the article focuses on information useful to an audience undecided about EBCE implementation. Three areas of measured outcomes are presented: community support,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Resources, Educational Strategies, Nontraditional Education
Peer reviewedDuran, Elva – Education, 1984
Argues in favor of community-based vocational training for severely handicapped autistic adolescents and gives points to consider in establishing such a program in the school curricula. Offers suggestions for identifying and using community resources. Explains the use of task analysis in student training and discusses student and program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Community Resources, Normalization (Handicapped)
Hunter, William; Ewing, Patricia – 1977
A third-party evaluation was conducted of the first year of an experience-based career education project (EBCE) in Rhode Island. Three sources of evaluation information were used: evaluator observations, the Community Resource Questionnaire, and the Student Skills and Attitude Inventory. Because the actual project implementation was for just one…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Employer Attitudes, High Schools
Download full textMinneapolis Public Schools, Minn. – 1972
The Work Experience Career Exploration Program (WECEP) is a prevocational exploratory program designed for educationally disadvantaged ninth grade students, emphasizing the cultivation of individual talents, development of social skills, and the recognition of the student as an individual with social and economic worth. In order to evaluate WECEP,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disadvantaged Youth
PDF pending restorationDiFede, Pat; Edwards, Larcelous, Jr. – 1976
This report is focused on retention of minority students at Broward Community College. Convinced that identifiable minorities can progress through the college and its programs if they receive appropriate assistance, Broward Community College along with Broward Manpower Council designed a work experience program for full-time students who can work…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs
Shively, Joe E.; Sanders, Jack – 1976
Increasing student disenchantment with traditional schooling prompted the development of an alternative educational program: Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). During three years of development, evaluation provided student, parent, and employer data on program impact and effectiveness. Stakeholders' involvement in program development and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, High School Students, Integrated Curriculum
Peer reviewedColley, Debra A.; Jamison, Doris – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1998
This follow-up study interviewed 720 former special-education students nine months after exiting New York schools for employment, postsecondary education, and community living outcomes. Results indicate special-education program components contributing to success included work experiences, occupational education, transition planning, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
The Community Consumer Newsletter Program (CCN), carried out in Bushwick High School (Brooklyn, New York), was designed to develop consumer skills among students and to pass on such skills to the community through bilingual (English/Spanish) newsletters. The 30 student participants, who were given stipends for their voluntary participation in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Bilingual Students, Consumer Education, High School Students
Neely, Margery A. – 1980
This report describes the third party evaluation of the State Fair Community College Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program's third (and final) year. Forty-one tenth and eleventh grade students participated in the program and were matched for evaluation with similar nonparticipating control groups. Evaluation instruments included Career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1984
An independent evaluation of the Career Explorations program found it to be worthy of both continuation and replication. Career Explorations is a summer youth program operated by Hunter College (New York) in cooperation with The Coalition of 100 Black Women, and supported by The Commonwealth Fund. Its aim is to help minority New York City high…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Educational Opportunities
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1974
The interim evaluation of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL), a community-based alternative curriculum for high school seniors, was not intended for general readers and its terminology is for that reason quite technical. The report's first section briefly describes the EBCE…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs
Hilderbrand, John A.; And Others – 1974
The first two sections of the final evaluation report of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL), a community-based alternative curriculum for high school seniors, briefly describe the EBCE summative and formative evaluation designs and the student populations studied. Section 3…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1977
Evaluation was conducted of the first-year operations of a project conducted with the Cranston and Central Falls School Departments (Rhode Island) which allowed eleventh and twelfth grade students to participate in experience-based career education (EBCE) as an alternative to the regular school program. Project objectives (and evaluation) focused…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
