Traineeships have been shown to be successful in generating improved labour market outcomes and are often recommended as a policy option for disadvantaged youth. Regretfully data indicate that one such target group, Indigenous Australians, continues to have lower traineeship completion rates than the non-Indigenous. To address this issue, a…

Senior year of high school can be a pivotal time in a young person's life. For some, it is the last step on the path to college and work. For others, finding stable employment or attending university after high school is far from guaranteed. Urban Alliance, headquartered in Washington, DC, helps students at risk of becoming disconnected from work…

This report presents baseline and process study findings of an evaluation of the Urban Alliance high school internship program, which provides training, mentoring, and work experience to high school seniors from distressed communities in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, and Chicago. The report, which focuses on the program's…

The appendixes to the final evaluation report of Research for Better Schools' employer-based career education program contain: a listing of FY 1974 evaluation reports, an explanation of evaluation instruments and test procedures, the evaluation instruments (student demographic data questionnaire, student opinion survey, parent opinion survey,…

The appendixes to the final evaluation report for FY 1974 of the Experience-Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS) contain the following: an audit of the final evaluation report for FY 1974, a cost-comparison study of Experience-Based Career Education replication, information about data collection, and associated survey…

This document comprises part 2 of a two-part evaluation of the third-year implementation of the New York City Board of Education's 3-year high school Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI). It consists of reports on 8 special substudies of the program in year 3 (part 1 describes the DPI and presents the evaluation findings and recommendations.) The…

A 3-YEAR COOPERATIVE SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM WAS INITIATED TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING ON LOW ACADEMIC ACHIEVERS AND PERSONS WHO HAD DEFINITE NEEDS FOR VOCATIONAL PREPAREDNESS IMMEDIATELY UPON LEAVING SCHOOL. FOUR SCHOOLS FROM THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE PILOT PROGRAMS -- ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL, MAINE…

This report summarizes the 1998-1999 program evaluation results of AISD's School-to-Career program, which is a system of integrated school-based and work-based learning that integrates academic and occupational learning.

The final evaluation report summarizes the FY 1974 operation of the Experience-Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS). The report's introduction provides a brief overview of the secondary level program and the evaluation design. Chapter 2 focuses on the procedures for the recruitment and selection of program students, discusses…

The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…

The Career Planning Center was an education-work-counseling program designed to accommodate 50 boys, ages 16-18, who are residents within the Seattle School District. The purpose of the program was to help the low-achieving young adults and potential dropouts to remain in school and to assist them in determining and accomplishing meaningful goals.…

The interim report for FY 1974 is the first program evaluation, conducted midway through the first year of operation, of the secondary level Experience-Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS). A brief introduction surveys the FWS program and discusses the organization of the report. Section 2, descriptions of data collection…

First-year evaluation of the Career Education Plus (CE+) project at Minot High School (North Dakota) was conducted. CE+ is an alternative educational program that provides career education learning opportunities for students in grades 9 and 10. Generalized project objectives were as follows: to provide for competencies in basic skills; to enhance…

Originally, this project attempted to find appropriate existing instruments that would be useful in the assessment of desired pupil outcomes for the Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) programs. When this effort proved unsuccessful, the next step was the development of systematic observations on a time-sampling basis. When this procedure was…

The evaluation summary covers the first year's operation of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The report's first section describes the student, employer-related, and parent-related goals of the program; program operation and costs; and replication concerns (transportation, costs per…