The market research ideas and techniques presented here were developed for two reasons: (1) to appraise and project job market conditions that now or will later influence the employment opportunities for graduates of vocational and technical programs; and (2) to use the collected manpower data for immediate and long-range curricular planning. The…

This report describes the benefits to vocational educators of involving volunteers in vocational programs and presents a model for planning and implementing a volunteer program. Outlined first are programmatic and nonprogrammatic approaches to designing volunteer programs. Next, in a discussion of the benefits of vocational volunteer programs, the…

A study examined the question of whether there is a connection between program characteristics and desirable program outcomes (student satisfaction, placement, and job performance ratings). A program evaluation questionnaire, containing over 300 individual items on such program characteristics as teacher certification and experience, instructional…