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Lewis, Robert – 1975
The implementation of the Adult Degree Completion Program (ADCP) at Antioch-Yellow Springs is described. The ADCP is a transfer program designed to enable adults who have never finished colege to complete their undergraduate degree work, often without having to abandon their obligations to families or to professions. To enroll in the program,…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, College Applicants, College Credits
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Coll. of Education. – 1977
The conference reported here was designed to encourage practitioners and other educational decision makers to improve, expand, and/or install programs of education/work in postsecondary institutions of Colorado. The objectives, program, and conference proceedings from each of four sessions are presented. Session one, an overview, consists of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Conference Reports, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Creech, F. Reid – 1976
Twenty students in an Experience-Based Career Education program were randomly selected for two periods of observation (Fall and Spring) at two kinds of sites (work-experience and school). Observations were coded, and then compiled and analyzed by computer. Results indicated a surprising similarity between activities of the resource…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Career Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Codification
Download full textRosen, David Paul; And Others – 1977
A study was conducted to obtain an initial view of exemplary programs involving an emphasis on work and education in postsecondary settings. Twenty programs were selected and described on the basis of comprehensiveness of approach, cross-section of institutional settings, cross-section of educational traditions or approaches to career education,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Holmes, Dennis H. – 1982
The Career Exploration Program was a 10-week outreach summer program for high-risk youth aged 16 to 21, operated for three years beginning in 1979 by the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC/A) and funded by the United States Department of Labor. The structured demonstration program focused specifically on high school dropouts,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Ethridge, Jim; And Others – 1981
These units of instructional materials and teaching aids are the first three of a series of 10 designed for use in metropolitan agriculture/horticulture programs for students in grades 9 and 10. Covered in the unit on agricultural occupations are the school program, agriculture and society, and careers in agriculture. Orientation to supervised…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Bachman, Jerald G. – 1979
Schooling has been overused as a credential, and the way to reduce the credential value of sheer years of schooling is to provide better alternative credentials. Research findings indicate high unemployment among those who have not attained a high school diploma. A productive approach toward reducing this overemphasis on diplomas and years of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Background
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. – 1980
This report presents planning, implementation, and first-year operational phases of Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) programs by prime sponsors in the Southwest. The prime sponsors were the city of Albuquerque and the encompassing county of Bernalillo, New Mexico; the Coastal Bend Manpower Consortium Area in Texas…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, City Government, Disadvantaged Youth
Gold, Chuck
Unemployment, especially among unskilled teenagers, and the lack of skilled workers to fill existing job openings in the Michigan Upper Peninsula gave impetus to the Bay de Noc Community College program, "Contracting with Business and Industry." On the basis of a contract between business, student, and the college, the business agrees to provide…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Contracts
Potter, Susan B., Ed.; And Others – 1978
This final report is a practical document, specifying techniques and procedures found effective during a project to (1) demonstrate a model of appropriate vocational service for developmentally disabled adults and (2) provide technical assistance and training to community facilities serving these persons. Chapters 2-6 discuss model components:…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Cooperative Programs, Counseling Services
Banker, Nancy Sirmay – 1979
This case study of a small suburban school district in the San Francisco Bay Area examines the interplay among individuals and groups within the district who make and implement policy decisions. The issue of awarding credit for experience-based learning focuses and directs the study. As an introduction to examination of the ways decisions are…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Career Education, Case Studies, Credits
Harren, Vincent A. – 1979
A study of 1,500 college students was conducted to determine the effect of sex role attitude and cognitive style on the career decision-making of college men and women. An overlapping longitudinal design (which allowed the study of undergraduates at one-year intervals), selected personal interviews, and five measures of sex-role attitude,…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Cognitive Style, College Students
Owens, Thomas R. – 1979
This Education and Work Program Year-End Report has been prepared by the Education and Work Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) to summarize their work performed under contract with the National Institute of Education. The report has been prepared for educational policy-makers, researchers, and educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning
JOHNSON, ELOUISE L. – 1967
THROUGH A THREE PHASE STUDY--LITERATURE REVIEW, EXAMINATION OF STATE QUALIFICATIONS FOR TEACHERS IN PRIVATE TRADE SCHOOLS, AND A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF TEACHERS IN THE 107 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRADE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS--A PROFILE OF THE TRADE SCHOOL TEACHER WAS DRAWN. HE IS MALE, 36 TO 55 YEARS OLD, ENTERS TEACHING BY DIRECT…
Descriptors: Certification, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Background, Educational Media
Lube, Edna Droz; Calero, Reinaldo – 1980
As part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture research project on young adults, a questionnaire was distributed in the fall of 1977 to all agriculture science and home economics students at the University of Puerto Rico in order to determine their personal and parental backgrounds; work, college, and high school experiences; life goals and attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Agricultural Colleges, Agriculture, Career Choice
