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Gutcher, G. Dale – 1976
This study sought to compare the relative values of the structured and unstructured approaches to the work experience portion of cooperative education programs with the additional objective of preparing guidelines for developing the structure of a work experience. A total of 32 students, 16 experimental and 16 control, from four Texas Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Education, Educational Research
Woolfolk, E. Mansfield – 1971
Funded under ESEA Title I, this program was designed to provide income and work experience for disadvantaged junior high school youths age fourteen and above; and, to provide incentives which would motivate youths to continue their education through high school. The wages earned were intended to enable the student to provide for some of his…
Descriptors: Attendance Records, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Characteristics
Freeberg, Norman E.; Reilly, Richard R. – 1971
Rationally defined outcome variables, for use in evaluating youth-work training programs, were incorporated in questionnaires administered to present and former Neighborhood Youth Corp enrollees and analyzed to determine their suitability as criterion measures. Using a factor analytic technique, empirically defined clusters were obtained for…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria
White, Martha Sturm; Highley, Betty L. – 1978
Data were gathered on 134 maternity and pediatric nurse practitioners to determine what types of work experience, educational backgrounds, and personality traits were most conducive to successful orientation and commitment to the nurse practitioner role. The study population, comprising six separate groups trained in six-month continuing education…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Demography, Educational Background, Graduate Surveys
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Job Corps. – 1974
The purpose of this handbook is to assist Job Corps Training Center staff in developing an instructional system which relates to present day occupational requirements. This is a how-to-do-it handbook which emphasizes and illustrates curriculum development techniques to assist training and management staff in establishing and updating Career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Federal Programs
Tworek, Richard K.; Campbell, Edward L. – 1979
A study was conducted in the Champaign-Urbana area to evaluate the relationship of the educational preparation of medical transcriptionists to their on-the-job requirements. Personal interviews were conducted with three hospital medical records administrators and with the appropriate department head of an area community college that offered a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Diction, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
ANDREWS, WALTER G., SR. – 1963
A STUDY WAS MADE IN NORTH CAROLINA OF ROLE EXPECTATIONS OF SUBJECT MATTER SPECIALISTS AS IDENTIFIED BY 83 WHITE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENTS AND 78 WHITE SPECIALISTS. A COMPARISON OF THE AGENTS' CONCEPT OF THE SPECIALISTS' ROLE, AND THE SPECIALISTS' CONCEPT OF THEIR OWN ROLE WAS MADE, AND THE VARIABLES OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE WERE ANALYZED.…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Educational Background