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Download full textParmenter, Trevor R. – 1978
Using a systems model with its components of inputs, process, and outputs; the report evaluates a work experience program for mildly retarded students at an Australian special school. Data collected at each stage of the evaluation is presented. Inputs into the system include a description of the population and its needs, along with the situational…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation
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
McCaleb, Omer – 1973
Through Project VIGOR, the David Douglas Public School System in Portland, Oregon addressed itself to the objective of changing a conventional academically oriented general education system into one whose curriculum reflected the needs of all students from the primary through the secondary grades and including post-high school contact and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Education, Cluster Grouping
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
Peer reviewedSeale, Clive – Educational Review, 1985
A survey of 954 trainees on YTS (Youth Training Scheme) courses wholly or partly provided by further education colleges in 1983/84 is reported. Trainees reported enjoyment and learning from work experience more than from college and valued practical training sessions in college more than other college offerings. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedvan Zwanenberg, Nigel – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1985
Reports on a study of how business students' views of work are altered by the industrial training year of the course. It was found that there is no evidence to support the hypothesis that changes in orientations to work of the students studied would result from the one year's experience of industrial training. (CT)
Descriptors: Business Education, Higher Education, Industrial Training, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedBerch, Jean A. – Clearing House, 1972
Article describes the Vocational Rotational Laboratory, a teacher education course that supplements the vocational curriculum with on-the-job experience. (Editor/MB)
Descriptors: Laboratory Training, Office Occupations Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Vela, Rene H.; Correa, Jose – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1976
The article describes the development of a pre-employment laboratory training program in meat processing and its successful use in conjunction with a cooperative training program in a high school agriculture curriculum. (MS)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cooperative Programs, Meat Packing Industry, Program Descriptions
Lucas, Darrell – Manpower, 1974
Carpentry training gives youth a boost toward journeyman status. (Author)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Development, Carpentry, Program Evaluation
Ainley, John; Fordham, Adrian – 1979
An evaluation study of some work preparation (or pre-vocational education) programs in New South Wales and Queensland (Australia) was conducted to accomplish the following objectives: (1) to establish a general methodological framework for the continuing evaluation of Technical and Future Education (TAFE) pre-vocational programs; (2) to obtain a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Measurement Instruments
Parmenter, Trevor R. – 1978
The paper presents a systems model for the evaluation of prevocational preparation programs for the learning disabled in Australia. The need for accountability in the area of the development of programs for the prevocational preparation of the learning disabled is discussed. Various approaches to evaluation are explored, and a systems model is…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Conceptual Schemes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Hensel, James W.; Becker, William J. – 1964
The purpose of the pilot program was to develop and test a new structure for vocational agriculture and thus meet the needs of a wider range of students. The curriculum was developed around 16 different agricultural subjects offered in alternate years on a semester basis. Agricultural engineering and agricultural survey were offered each semester…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs, Off Farm Agricultural Occupations
Hoyle, John R. – 1974
The methodological difficulty of evaluating alternative programs in specific, measurable terms is described. Based on an alternative program at Talawanda High School in Oxford, Ohio, the writer attempted to develop a model for evaluating an alternative program. The following evaluation procedures were selected: (1) attendance and grades prior to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Models, Nontraditional Education, Performance Criteria
Nowels, Jack – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1973
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Cooperative Education, Program Effectiveness
Connell, Timothy J.; Mason, Sarah A. – 1995
In the 1990s, federal education legislation and policies have encouraged state and local efforts in educational reform and placed a new emphasis on education for and about work. These initiatives have engaged the active participation of a broad range of partners and have spurred a variety of locally customized programs and practices. Nationally,…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods, Models
