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Flower, Fred, Ed.; Russell, Russ, Ed. – 1982
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the role of industrial tutors in providing technical training to German workers. During their study, the investigators focused their attention on the role of the meister in the vocational education and training system in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1983
A study examined the statewide mental health agency training programs for paraprofessional mental health workers that exist throughout the United States. During the study, researchers contacted all 50 state mental health manpower development offices and requested copies of statewide training programs, instructional materials, training needs…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cooperative Programs, Course Descriptions
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Office for Vocational, Technical, and Career Education. – 1989
This monograph is a follow-up to a comprehensive study of education for employment that examined how successfully individuals were being prepared for employment by vocational education, career education, and adult education. Three goals surfaced from the study: enhancing quality, increasing effectiveness, and assuring access to vocational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling
Carbo, Marie; And Others – 1986
Designed to assist parents, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and special educators, this book describes effective reading programs that promote reading success and achievement for children at all reading levels. The 10 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) "Preventing Reading Failure and Increasing Reading Achievement through Learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
Sherron, Ronald H. – 1986
A longitudinal study examined adult basic education (ABE) in Virginia between 1970 and 1985. (The first study was conducted in 1970, the second in 1978, and the third in 1985.) Data for the 1985 study were collected from survey instruments mailed to all state department ABE personnel, local ABE supervisors, learning center coordinators, and ABE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Counselor Characteristics, Curriculum Development, Demography
Russ-Eft, Darlene F.; And Others – 1979
This report summarizes the major literature dealing with the following major issues in adult basic education (ABE): target and demand populations (size, characteristics, and subgroups of the ABE population and the decline in participation); services provided (the purpose of the Adult Education Act, objectives and goals of ABE, problems of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Media
Lake County Area Vocational Center, Grayslake, IL. – 1986
The duties and tasks found in these task lists form the basis of instructional content for secondary, postsecondary, and adult occupational training programs for industrial occupations. The industrial occupations are divided into eight clusters. The clusters and occupations are: construction cluster (bricklayer, carpenter, building maintenance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Auto Body Repairers, Auto Mechanics, Building Trades
Haywood County Consolidated Schools, Waynesville, NC. – 1985
This guide is intended to assist vocational educators teaching a course in graphics to relate the skills addressed in science courses to a particular vocational education course. The guide consists of a curriculum alignment chart that cross-references vocational performance indicators to science skills/competencies. The science competency…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Chemical Reactions
Parks, Marie A.; And Others – 1987
A study examined the characteristics of effective secondary vocational education programs for a variety of special needs populations (disabled, disadvantaged, and limited English proficient individuals; single parents; and persons enrolled in programs to eliminate sex bias and sex stereotyping). The following eight states were studied: California,…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on Literacy, PA. – 1984
This report on the program highlights of the first national conference on urban literacy contains 40 information sheets describing the literacy programs represented at the conference. Each program information sheet contains some or all of the following: the name of the program; the name, address, and phone number of a program contact person; the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Reading Programs
Mein, Jake; And Others – 1982
This document is a competency-based curriculum guide designed to promote articulation in machine trades vocational education programs between and among secondary and postsecondary institutions in the Indian Hills Community College and Merged Area XV high schools in Iowa. The guide is organized in 11 sections. The first six sections provide…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Competence, Competency Based Education
Rosenbalm, Charles; And Others – 1982
This document is a competency-based curriculum guide designed to promote articulation in welding technology programs between and among secondary and postsecondary institutions in the Indian Hills Community College and Merged Area XV high schools in Iowa. The guide is organized in eight sections. The first six sections provide background…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Competence, Competency Based Education
Langgin, Ron; Harshman, Jerry – 1982
This document is a competency-based curriculum guide designed to promote articulation in electronics technology programs between and among secondary and postsecondary institutions in the Indian Hills Community College and Merged Area XV high schools in Iowa. The guide is organized in eight sections. The first six sections provide background…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Competence, Competency Based Education
Shatz, Susan; And Others – 1981
This guide is designed to assist administrators in planning and implementing strategies to eliminate sex bias, sex stereotyping, and sex discrimination in occupational education programs in New York State where such exist. Discussed first are the provisions of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Guides, Budgeting, Change Strategies
Dougherty, Kevin – 1979
This paper deals with continuities and changes over the period 1963 to 1976 in the organization and goals of the federally supported vocational education program. Summarized first are major pieces of vocational education passed in the years from 1917 to 1963, including the Vocational Education Act of 1917, the Vocational Education Act of 1946, the…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Educational Benefits, Educational Change, Educational History