A Pittsburgh School District study compared vocational, academic, and general students for the years 1983, 1986, and 1989. It collected information on secondary experience, postsecondary options, postsecondary education/training dropout and completion rates, employment history, geographic mobility, and income history. A specific question related…

This manual is designed to help supervisors perform their duties, whether in the public or private sector or in a community organization. It provides information to help supervisors understand the individuals with whom they work, orient new workers to their jobs, plan and organize the work to be performed, assign and monitor tasks, conduct…

From a national perspective, cooperative vocational education is becoming increasingly important. As the country changes from a manufacturing to a service economy, many traditional jobs are being eliminated, while new jobs are being created, especially in the information field. In order to prepare employees for these jobs, a partnership between…

This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on-the-job training. The two goals for this module are to know the purposes and features of a training agreement and to be able to complete a training…

This self-instructional module, the seventh in a series of 16 techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with the responsibilities of the teacher-coordinator and the training sponsor in providing on-the-job training. The module contains a series of pretests and learning activities, a guide sheet for a videotape on these same rules…

The Skills, Attitudes, and Values for Employment (SAVE) project was designed to explore the needs of women in the workplace. An exploratory design was selected for the study with a target population consisting of 200 women working in companies in Morris County, New Jersey. From a self-administered questionnaire used to elicit information, the…

The student magazine of the educational program sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) is a collection of student writings. The writings are divided into the following topics: life journeys (Our Countries, Coming to the United States, and Our New Country); Our Lives (autobiographies, parents, family, remembering…

This consumers' guide provides an easily understandable, large print summary of the recommendations in a 10-year plan for changes in services to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria, Australia. Twenty of the 250 recommendations of the plan are given in simplified language accompanied by illustrations, including recommendations for:…

The study described in the first part of this two-part document identified the kind of ongoing support that would be most beneficial to all those concerned in the employment of young people with disabilities in England and Wales. Semistructured interviews were conducted with employers, representatives of preparation and placement agencies, and…

Among these education-related papers in this collection are "Consumer Issues and the Elderly" (Moon); "The Relationship between Perceived Life Satisfaction and Measures of Economic Well-Being" (Douthitt, MacDonald, Mullis); "Research Data Priorities as Assessed by Users" (Chern, Hushak, Tweeten); "New Directions in Data, Information Systems and…

This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers, and discusses barriers and facilitators to the use of these approaches. Technological update refers to the technical knowledge and skills needed by vocational/technical teachers to provide…

Diverse issues in higher education are addressed in 19 articles. Titles and authors are as follows: "2001: Formulation of a Vision" (Kenneth L. Schwab); Trustees' Roles and Student Issues" (Davis Powers); "What Do Students and Faculty Talk about When They Eat Meals Together?" (John H. Schuh, Neal Edman); "Student…

This issue targets the high risk segment of the youth population and their high unemployment rate. An overview discusses the contents. Ten "Bulletins" offer descriptions of programs and projects and demonstrate how long-term training, work and academic experience, and individualized training operate in functioning programs. To assist…

This manual is designed to assist work experience education coordinators in combining different learning activities described in a 94-activity work experience education instructional guide published in 1981. Presented first is a list of the titles of the individual activities organized according to the following subject areas: input or evaluation…

A study analyzed the explicit and implicit behavior of employers in their assessment of young job applicants for entry-level clerical, retail trade, and machine trade jobs. In order to determine the influence of applicants' education and skills on employability assessments made by employers, the researchers analyzed data from almost 600 mail…