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Cain, Michael Scott – 1999
The thesis of the book is that the problems community colleges face were inherent from the beginning and became more prominent because the particular vantage points from which the schools were viewed prohibited the taking of any action on the problems. Chapter one presents a portrait of what the colleges have become, establishing the governing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Occupational Studies. – 1995
This document lists core standards and occupational knowledge amd skills that have been identified/validated by industry as necessary to all Georgia students in secondary-level environmental and agricultural sciences programs. First, foundation skills are grouped as follows: basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic/mathematics, listening,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Basic Skills
Dowd, Tom; And Others – 1994
Boys Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan, attempts to respond to the challenges faced by today's children and youth with its own child care model, called the Boys Town Family Home Program. This model is based on family-style nurturing, behavioral-based instruction, and a "systems" approach to staff training and development.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Abuse
Hughes, Maria; Kingsford, Margaret – FE Matters, 1997
Effective models for helping adults with disabilities and/or learning difficulties obtain and maintain employment were identified through a research project that included the following activities: collection of background information from 20 providers of support for employment in England and Wales; case studies of a geographically representative…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Jennings, John F., Ed. – 1995
This document traces the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act as they proceeded through Congress. The following papers are included: "Preface" (Douglas Bedient and Michael D. Usdan); "Introduction" (John F. Jennings); "The Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Providing a World-Class…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Kyle, Regina M. J. – 1995
The role of school-to-work transition in the broader context of K-12 systemic reform was examined by way of a case study of Jefferson County, Kentucky, before and after passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in 1990. The systemic approaches toward school-to-work transition as part of educational reform that were developed and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship
Redding, Richard E.; And Others – 1992
A cognitive task analysis was performed to analyze the key cognitive components of the en route air traffic controllers' jobs. The goals were to ascertain expert mental models and decision-making strategies and to identify important differences in controller knowledge, skills, and mental models as a function of expertise. Four groups of…
Descriptors: Air Traffic Control, Air Transportation, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis
National Vocational Guidance Association, Washington, DC. – 1981
This training journal, a product of the Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS) Project, is designed to provide trainers with the necessary training delivery skills needed to create effective adult learning experiences. Addressed in the individual units of the journal are the following topics: basic elements of training experiences (content and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Check Lists
Spill, Rick – 1986
This guide is intended to assist local providers of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth employment training in responding to new Department of Labor reporting definitions calling for a sufficiently developed youth employment competency system. The first two sections discuss the concept of sufficiently developed systems in generic terms.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Employment Programs
Knowles, Malcolm S. – 1983
A model is proposed for developing and implementing a community-based lifelong learning resources system. The model, which is based on systems theory, features the following sequence of activities: identifying all the learning resources in a community, incorporating information about these resources into a database, establishing a mechanism for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Community Action, Community Programs
Van Dusen, William D.; And Others – 1980
The College Scholarship Service guide to implementing financial aid data processing systems is presented, based on conferences that promoted information exchange between data processing and financial aid administrators. The following topics are addressed: long-range planning, the rationale and organizational basis for financial aid, specific…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for the Study of Evaluation. – 1984
This monograph contains four position papers and two conference papers from the Systemic Evaluation Project (fiscal year, 1984) on the methodological issues associated with applying a comprehensive information system in a secondary school setting. These papers represent work in progress at a suburban Los Angeles high school field test of systemic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Computer Managed Instruction, Data Processing, Educational Environment
Kalani, Henry – 1976
This second of a two-part study designed to develop a hospitality education program model for Hawaii's community colleges is based on the primary data gathered in a survey of the hospitality industry characteristics, manpower requirements, and employment demands. (Survey data is reported in volume 1 of the study.) The introductory section of this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum
Tritschler, Donald, Ed. – 1982
Six annotated bibliographies and lists of resource materials and organizations are presented as aids to faculty teaching graduate courses in higher education as a discipline. The first bibliography, "Bibliographies of Higher Education," (Peter P. Olevnik), is designed as a guide for the graduate student to general and special reference sources…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
Eliason, N. Carol – 1979
Research findings at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) document the practicality of a systems approach to transfer of skills from other realms to the world of the vocational training classroom and directly to the world of work. One of the targeted approaches specifically concerned with upgrading the status of women…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration
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