Research was undertaken to determine conditions under which unemployed job trainees can be enabled and motivated to obtain maximum benefits from a job retraining program. This study focused on social reinforcement; that is, the most effective ways of communicating "success" or positive evaluative experiences to a Negro working class population of…

The project described offers an approach to providing occupational skills to socially and educationally handicapped youth, specifically the skills necessary for a service station attendant in driveway salesmanship and auto care. The 10-page evaluation report presents project goals and objectives with evaluation data (represented graphically) and…

A standardized and comprehensive school bus driver instructional program has been developed under contract with the Federal Government. The course has been organized to provide in one package a program for developing the minimum skills and knowledge needed by the school bus driver instructor, as well as those supplemental skills and knowledge…

This volume contains a series of articles describing the management of education in various countries of the Asian region and discussing a few of the regional problems. Many of these problems are the result of old administrative machinery trying to cope with growth in the size and complexity of education and with a new view of education as a key…

The course outline has been developed to assist instructors to plan for and teach a 9-week course in operating the sorter and in advanced keypunch techniques, preparing the student to perform as a keypunch operator trainee or sorter operator trainee. The first week of the course provides a short review of key punching principles. In the following…

The report has described the results of a questionnaire survey covering task performance in the occupational area of hospital engineering and maintenance and the implications for curriculum development in personnel training. Survey respondents were selected from among personnel of 48 health care facilities in six cities, representing various sized…

In the past several years utilization of nonprofessionals in various extension programs has increased. In an attempt to determine what the role of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) nonprofessional is, the paper presents the findings of an analysis of critical incidents acquired from nonprofessional EFNEP extension aides…

This study sought to describe how work values of 110 disadvantaged persons differ from those of 180 regularly employed, unskilled and semiskilled subjects, to identify biographical correlates of work values endorsed by the hard core, and to detect changes in work values as a function of training. Data were gathered via questionnaires and…

This document summarizes the significant findings, overall methodology, and policy recommendations for the Assessment of School Supervised Work Education Programs. It consists of material contained in the Data Analysis Report together with a description of the analysis model developed for each respondent group. Individual predictor items were…

The paper illustrates the main lines of documentation activity at the Italian Radio and Television Agency, with specific reference to the automated and intergrated system based on the use of key-words, recently adopted for audio, visual and written material in the journalistic area. It also provides an extensive report on studies on the…

The model of the outreach development process presented here is designed to increase access to education for district members not presently enrolled in one of the district colleges. The plan involves: identifying educational needs, determining if these needs can be met by the community colleges, determining which college should be responsible,…

This document reports the results of a study to determine whether changes made in the Neighborhood Youth Corps' in-school component helped to decrease the school dropout rate among participants. Surveys of programs in Harris County, Texas, Norfolk, Virginia, and the Washington metropolitan area provided the data. Overall findings suggest that the…

Research into problems associated with job training programs resulted in a method for defining on-the-job training where a substance organization must serve as the training base for the organization in which the trainee ultimately will serve. The method involves determining the tasks required by the jobs men do in the target organization and…

Based on an analytically evaluative case study of a New York City furniture department store's experiences with a Manpower Administration contract, this report deals with the development and progress of the program as analyzed by one investigator through interviews with almost all of the participants in the program. As a result of the study,…

This report contains an analysis of the Work Incentive Program (WIN) termination data collected and maintained by the Department of Labor, specifically the Office of Manpower Management Data Systems (OMMDS). WIN projects enrolled their first clients in October 1968, nearly 6,000 people. By the end of March 1970, there were approximately 150,000…