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Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This volume (and volume 2 of this report) are products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). This report on assessment of the Job Corps presents a large array of studies ranging from rigorous impact and benefit-cost evaluations to survey of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Saint Louis Univ., MO. – 1980
This report contains evaluations of various phases of the Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector Program (VEPS). (VEPS is designed to provide youth with exposure to jobs available in the private sector through observation of such jobs, instruction, and, if appropriate, limited practical experience so long as the participant does not…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
HARTIG, MARVIN E. – 1962
AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE REASONS FOR THE GREAT STUDENT TURNOVER IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT EVANSVILLE COLLEGE AND TO SEEK WAYS TO REDUCE IT. FOUR GROUPS WERE SELECTED FROM STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE DURING THE 1960-61 SCHOOL YEAR--(1) THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN AFTER A TERM, (2) THOSE WHO WITHDREW DURING A TERM, (3) THOSE IN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Dropouts, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1966
THIS REPORT TO CONGRESS DISCUSSES THE HISTORY, FINANCIAL POLICY, VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS, AND RATIONALE OF THE PEACE CORPS, WITH EMPHASIS ON PLANS TO IMPROVE TRAINING AND EXPAND ITS PROGRAM. PEACE CORPS TEACHING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND HEALTH EDUCATION IN VARIOUS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE REVIEWED AND EVALUATED. A PROPOSAL…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Agency Cooperation, Budgets, Coordination
Jhin, Kyo R. – 1975
The document is the final report for fiscal year 1974-75 of a rural adult secondary education demonstration project sponsored by the regional agency, Top of Alabama Regional Education Service Agency (TARESA), serving five northeastern Alabama counties. Program features include the use of educational television on a statewide basis and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Continuing Education Centers
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1967
Training activities authorized under Part B of Title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, as amended, are described and evaluated and recommendations are made for continuation and improvement. The report includes sections on program innovations, experimental and demonstration programs, changing goals, teachers,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum
Aker, George F., Ed.; Hanberry, Gerald C., Ed. – 1972
Phase II of an Institute aimed at improving decision-making skills of the participants (State Directors, ABE Coordinators, Assistant State Directors, Special Project Directors and Assistant Directors) so as to enhance the management of Adult Basic Education in the U. S. and its territories is discussed in this report. Part I of the report…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Age
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1996
Three evaluations analyzed program characteristics and participant results in work force education and coordination in Washington State. The Employment Security Department's evaluation of Job Training Partnership Act Titles II and III looked for an association between participant characteristics and the type of training they receive and between…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Competency Based Education, Economic Development
Wooden, Mark; VandenHeuvel, Adriana; Cully, Mark; Curtain, Richard – 2001
This report covers a study of barriers for older workers in obtaining and benefitting from training and innovative policies to remove them. After an introduction, Chapter 2 reviews literature on incidence and determinants of older workers' participation in training; barriers to training; and employer and government initiatives to enhance older…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Developed Nations
Peer reviewedKleiman, Ephraim; Rubenstein, Yona – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Reports on the replication of Jane Leuthold's experiment concerning consumer choice, investments, and free riding indexes. This experiment, conducted in an Israeli undergraduate economics class, broadened the subjects' characteristics questionnaire to include issues of social consciousness and altruism. Includes four tables of statistical data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Young, Malcolm B.; And Others – 1995
A third-party national evaluation of the basic grants section of the Adult Education Act was conducted in September 1990. Although clients eligible for adult secondary education (ASE) constituted the largest segment of the target population, enrollments were highest in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs and most programs primarily served…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1995
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations to describe and compare the literacy skills of people from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country drew a probability sample from which results…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis
Russell, Todd T.; Russell, Debra K. – 1996
This study investigated the relationships between children's levels of depression, their perceptions of their classroom social climate, and their perceptions of their families' functioning. The three self-report instruments employed were the Reynolds Child Depression Scale (RCDS), the relationship dimension of the Classroom Environment Scale…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Counseling Services, Depression (Psychology)
Merrifield, Juliet; And Others – 1993
In the first phase of a longitudinal study to gather information on quality-of-life outcomes of adult basic education (ABE) programs in Tennessee, adults entering literacy programs at eight sites in rural and urban Tennessee were interviewed using a baseline questionnaire covering socioeconomic, social, personal, and physical well-being. One year…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level
Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared – 1992
Wage analyses of several government surveys suggest that substantial, broad-based reductions in real wages occurred in the final years of the 1980s recovery. (Data sources are the hourly compensation data from the Employment Cost Index series and wage data from the Current Population Survey.) The wages of those who lost the most in the 1980s (high…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, College Graduates, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Background
