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Download full textBehn, Ruth; Hamer, Lois V. – 1980
Designed as informational aids for community college practitioners, these two booklets examine the counseling and job placement needs of older adult students. The first booklet addresses itself to community college counselors. After profiling the composition of the older adult population in terms of "young-old" persons (those of 55 to 75 years…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Role, Community Colleges, Counseling Services
Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels – 1980
A study examined job search in a professional labor market by specifying a variable intensity model of labor market search and investigating its empirical consequences. Variables taken into account in the theoretical model investigated included background characteristics such as grades, sex, age, and previous working experience; intensity of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Career Education, Educational Background
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Div. of Occupational and Vocational Studies. – 1981
This administrator's manual contains guidelines for planning, developing, and implementing mainstream, self-contained, or cooperative work experience programs for the disadvantaged. Outlined in the introductory section are the philosophy underlying programs for the disadvantaged, procedures to determine student eligibility, signals indicating the…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Administrator Guides, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged
Elmore, Dana – 1979
A survey of 428 instructors at four community colleges in the San Jose, California, area was conducted in May 1978 to determine the degree of importance with which faculty viewed selected pedagogical skills, and to correlate these opinions with the respondents' teaching experience and educational backgrounds. The survey instrument asked…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Learning Theories
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1978
The activities presented in this Work Incentive (WIN) program report are those designed to assist the movement of employable Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients from welfare to work and economic independence. The first of seven sections presents statistics on WIN programs, including (1) intake, (2) individuals employed, (3)…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Gullo, Philip T.; McDaniel, Walter A.
Of the 116 firms involved in an economic industrial survey of Atlantic County (New Jersey), 92 (78%) firms responded. The major activity of 91% of the responding firms was of the light industry type, within which there was some diversity. Findings of the study include the following: a greater number of full-time employees were employed than…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Economic Climate, Economic Research, Educational Background
DeVany, Arthur S.; And Others
This research was designed to develop and test a model of the Air Force manpower market. The study indicates that previous manpower supply studies failed to account for simultaneous determination of enlistments and retentions and misinterpreted regressions as supply equations. They are, instead, reduced form equations resulting from joint…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications
Fresno City Coll., CA. – 1978
The results of a five-step curriculum analysis of the electronics program at Fresno City College, California, are provided in this booklet. (An analysis of four other vocational programs are provided in CE 019 817-820.) The products of step 1 include a definition of the employment opportunity for this area and a statement of the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Fresno City Coll., CA. – 1978
The results of a five-step curriculum analysis of the registered nursing program at Fresno City College, California, are provided in this booklet. (An analysis of four other vocational programs are provided in CE 019 817-820.) The products of step 1 include a definition of the employment opportunity for this area and a statement of the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Burgar, Paul S. – 1979
A study was commissioned by a large petrochemical concern in order to validate professional degrees as a job entry requirement. The investigations considered two issues: (1) "Are activities performed by professionals (chemists and engineers) measurably different from the activities of subordinate technical personnel?" and "What…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Critical Incidents Method, Curriculum
Smith, Roderick; Raleigh, Susan – 1978
This United States Employment Service's Occupational and Career Information Series publication on the trucking industry is designed to provide an occupationally oriented overview of the field for employment and career counselors, as well as students and other interested readers. The following information is included: a brief history of the…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Career Development, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
Schurr, George M. – 1979
Considerations regarding the establishment of a code of ethics for academics are discussed. All professions, not just academicians, are being asked to specify what it is that they contribute to society and to demonstrate that they are contributing it and not just satisfying their own interests. A code explicitly delimits the responsibility and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Codes of Ethics, College Faculty
Ritter, Paul M. – 1979
The responsibilities of the school business manager have grown more complex since this manual was first published in 1967. As a consequence, this edition updates it and defines the complexities that have evolved since then. The guide begins with an outline of the work of the business manager and the relation of that work to the rest of tbe school.…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
FORD, ROXANA R.; HOYT, CYRIL J. – 1960
TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING AN ADEQUATE PROFILE TO DESCRIBE TEACHER REQUIREMENTS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS NEEDED FOR SATISFACTORY HOMEMAKING INSTRUCTION WERE STUDIED. WHEN THE PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS OF A TEACHING POSITION WERE CONSIDERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TEACHER CANDIDATE, EXPECTATIONS WERE…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Methods
CROSSMAN, EDWARD R.F.W.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE WAS TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF MECHANIZATION AND AUTOMATION GENERALLY REQUIRE LOWER LEVELS OF SKILLS THAN EARLIER PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. A SECONDARY OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEVELOP AN INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF GIVING UNBIASED PROJECTIONS OF THE MANPOWER IMPACT OF SPECIFIC ADVANCES IN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY. DEPENDENT…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Aerospace Industry, Automation, Banking
