This is a handbook designed for educators, manpower planners, and other officials interested in taking advantage of new legislation for creating youth employment programs. In the first part of the book major provisions of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 are explained. Good planning is stressed as crucial to the success…

This report presents guidelines developed by a task force at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) for translating experiential learning into academic credit. Introductory sections describe the institutional commitment to granting credit for non-traditional learning experiences, a new related Associate in Liberal Studies degree, the current…

The publication, a summary of a two-day workshop for education and rehabilitation personnel working with the mentally retarded student-client, contains the rationale for work-study experience programs, guidelines for establishing and maintaining a program, and information on various stages of the process. The following papers, which are included…

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…

The Salina Area Vocational Technical School has a special vocational program which provides selected vocational training courses for students with physical, emotional, or intellectual handicaps. The program offers vocational counseling, placement services, work evaluation, job readiness training, and vocational training tryouts. Vocational…

Air Force research has identified 254 highly rated journeyman-level tasks, out of a potential 683, in the career field of Accounting and Finance, and has evaluated the extent to which 1,261 first line supervisors in this area have had experience in these tasks. Two seven-skill level specialties within the career field, General Accounting…

The document consists of a brief project report, copies of program publicity and related correspondence, and one of the nine learning packets developed for use in the program. The purpose of the project was to develop guidelines for planning, conducting, managing, and evaluating a simulation program for teaching the skills and competencies…

A survey instrument was designed and mailed to all 101 California community colleges in order to gather information on their cooperative work experience programs. In all, 88 schools responded. This document presents a statistical summary of survey responses which establishes: the employment status and salary range of program directors; program…

The overall objective of the project was to formulate a set of statewide policies to provide for a continuing and systematic approach to the problem of updating the content knowledge of vocational teachers in secondary and postsecondary schools. The opportunity for an individualized, planned, two-week work experience in business, industry,…

The document provides guidelines for the teacher-coordinator in the establishment of an internship program in distributive education. The objectives of an internship program in distributive education are enumerated and procedures are suggested for its initiation. The duties of a teacher-coordinator are listed and guidelines are presented for…

This report covers a study carried out to examine and catalogue the agriculture industry in terms of size, structure, and future growth patterns in the Fraser Valley College District, and, to some extent, the rest of British Columbia; to provide methodology to facilitate the updating of this information; to examine the agricultural vocational…

To help solve the problem of student layoffs during training, the study sought effective alternative methods and processes, as used by cooperative vocational education (CVE), to short-term layoffs or student termination from training stations. Another objective was to determine possible steps to provide reasonable continuity in the student's…

The report surveys the occupational environment of the towns in the region within 30 to 45 minutes' commuting time of North Reading, Massachusetts. A random sample of manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, service, and to a much lesser extent finance, insurance, real estate establishments was surveyed in person or by mail. Information…

Cooperative Education at Concord-Carlisle High School is a plan of educational enrichment designed to enhance self-realization and direction by means of integrating classroom study with planned and supervised practical experience in educational, vocational, social service, or cultural learning situations outside of the formal classroom…

Although community colleges have a relatively short period of time to help students learn about society and themselves, the students can gain personal meaning from the concepts and information of course material through related, practical experience. Colleges may, therefore, find it beneficial to incorporate community service experience into the…