This booklet was created to help women develop resumes and complete employment applications in order to translate their volunteer experiences into employment credentials. It can also serve as a guide to help employers evaluate a volunteer's experience. Procedures for evaluating volunteer experience are outlined following an introduction. Presented…

Beginning in 1976, Regional Colleges were formed in Burma to implement career and technical education at the post-secondary level. This paper describes the Regional Colleges and explores the possible use of a systemic management information process that could assist in the complex planning required to develop second-year vocational and technical…

Intended to raise race and sex compliance issues to be addressed by the National Institute of Education (NIE) in its congressionally mandated study of vocational education, this paper defines Title VI (Civil Rights Act of 1964) and Title IX (Education Amendments of 1972) compliance issues regarding the level of minority (black Americans) and women…

Current developments in experiential learning, especially as it applies to adult learners, are discussed. Experiential learning is defined as "prior learning (which is) those nonacademic life or work experiences that students have acquired before formal contact with the institution and for which they desire recognition in the form of credits…

The 114 physicians working for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service (IHS) in June 1976 were surveyed to determine what attracted and retained physicians to the Navajo area. Of the 114 questionnaires mailed, 90 were returned. Designed to obtain data on the physician's background, choice of location, and satisfaction with both community and work…

A compilation of three papers commissioned by the National Institute of Education, this study discusses the use of community education and work councils (CEWCs) as ways to improve school-to-work and work-to-school transitions for youth and adults. The first paper (1) elaborates the idea of councils comprised of business, industry, education, labor…

A study was conducted to determine labor market factors influencing one's psychological well being and economic security after retirement. Research was found that supported the hypotheses that a worker's employment, earnings, and industry in the labor force greatly affect a retiree's financial position; the reason for labor force withdrawal…

Curricular domains relevant to work experience programs are motivation, sequencing, and goals. A case study of a project of institutional collaboration on peer counseling for work experience students (forming a consortium between a city school board of education and a community college) was made through data generated from the Youthwork National…

This research project set out to provide information to young people about which occupations would provide them with the most valuable experience, valuable being defined in terms of later earnings. The project attempted to measure the value of on-the-job learning in terms of future income and to identify sequences of occupations which would…

A Farm Practice Certificate course piloted in the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, during 1979-80 was evaluated during its development and implementation. Three areas were examined: trainee and master farmer characteristics, effectiveness of off-property education and training activities and the theory modules, and the effectiveness of on-property…

Trade and industrial (T & I) instructors desiring professional development and credentialization through a university have numerous problems in validating and receiving credit for their technical competencies obtained through prior experiences and noncollegiate training. In the past, teachers have either acquired specialization competency based on…

This project was begun to explore the feasibility of instituting a personnel exchange program for vocational education--at both the secondary and postsecondary levels--and business and industry in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Following a literature search for other programs and interviews with representatives of business and industry and of…

The youth work curriculum, developed as a special degree program at the College of Public and Community Service of the University of Massachusetts at Boston as part of a demonstration grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to the Boston Teen Center Alliance is presented. The Youth Work Career Certificate (equivalent…

This two-part project was designed to determine the effectiveness of the staff exchange program in Kentucky. Part 1 of the project involved personal interviews conducted with selected vocational educators who had been involved in the staff exchange program during its six-year history. Also interviewed were the cooperating business and industry…

This guide is intended to help state sex equity coordinators learn more about adult women's life experiences and the skills, knowledge, and abilities they develop through them. It also shows the coordinators how to help employers determine job relevance of adult women's life experience learning. Chapter 1 overviews life experience learning, while…