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Peer reviewedFetterman, David M. – Human Organization, 1981
Shows how evaluation design and federal involvement in Youth Employment Demonstration Projects unintentionally cause a negative appraisal. Indicates the problem stems from interaction of the contract research corporation, the educational research establishment, and the federal bureaucracy, rather than a specific methodology or bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) authorized a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. Although many programs, such as the War on Poverty and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Planning
Barton, Paul E.; Fraser, Bryna Shore – 1980
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) provided the mandate and resources for experimental and demonstration activity to determine the most effective means to alleviate the employment problems of economically disadvantaged youth. An immediate need was to establish plans and priorities for research, evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Barton, Paul E.; Fraser, Bryna Shore – 1980
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) authorized a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. A major knowledge development objective under YEDPA was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Kim, Choongso; And Others – 1980
This report is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report describes the methodology and preliminary findings of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of youth, which seeks the effects of military service on the education and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Armed Forces, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Freeberg, Norman E.; Rock, Donald A. – 1982
Because of various flaws in their design, most research studies that have up to now examined the transition of youth to the work setting have failed to pinpoint ways of improving existing programs. Many of these design flaws (including lack of a uniform set of outcome measures, failure to routinely incorporate control groups, and failure to design…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
