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Head, Ronald B. – 1994
To supplement the academic review process and provide information on trends in occupational/technical programs (OT), a study was conducted at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to examine student enrollment, student completion, and occupational opportunities for graduates of the college's OT programs. Student enrollment and graduation data…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Computer Science Education
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1978
For use by trainees, this guide is the third of three designed for a two-day inservice training seminar for driver licensing administrative hearing officers. Participant's schedule information and materials are presented in three sections. The first includes the seminar agenda. Day 1 encompasses six units: (1) introduction, (2) the highway safety…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Behavior Problems, Certification
Palmiotto, Michael J. – 1980
To determine the development, nature, and probable patterns of growth of criminal justice programs in Pennsylvania community colleges, the directors of the state's 11 criminal justice programs were interviewed. They were asked open-ended, leading questions related to program development, enrollment, curriculum, faculty, financing, and projections…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Criminal Law
Clagett, Craig A. – 1980
The criminal justice curriculum at Prince George's Community College emphasizes a broad social science education, designed to prepare students for immediate employment in law enforcement or for transfer to a four-year program. Program enrollments and student credit hours showed a similar pattern of growth in the mid-1970's, followed by a recent…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Dropout Rate, Employer Attitudes
New Jersey State Dept. of Law and Public Safety, Trenton. – 1969
The third and fourth annual reports on law enforcement training in New Jersey ("Police Training: The Key to Professional Police Service," 1964-65 and 1965-66) review the powers, responsibilities, and duties of the Police Training Commission; law enforcement officers trained (including failures and total enrollments); hours of programed…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Administrators, Agencies, Courses
Head, Ronald B. – 1995
To supplement the academic review process and provide information on trends in occupational/technical (OT) programs, Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) examined student enrollment and completion data and determined occupational opportunities for graduates of the college's OT programs. Student enrollment and graduation data for fall 1992…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Computer Science Education
Johnson, Thomas Allen – 1998
This study compared levels of achievement of three groups of Houston (Texas) police academy cadets: those with no military service but with 60 or more college credit hours, those with military service and 0 hours of college credit, and those with military service and 1 to 59 hours of college credit. Prior to 1991, police cadets in Houston were…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, City Government, Educational Research
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1985
Participants in a symposium concerned with issues affecting rural New York State identified strengths and weaknesses and suggested policy in relation to three broad goals in the area of human services and community life: (1) increase community awareness of problems affecting rural localities, including the causes and effects of crime, violence,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Services, Delivery Systems
Culbertson, Robert G.; Carr, Adam F. – 1981
Undergraduate course syllabi on law enforcement, courts-law, corrections, and general criminal justice-criminology were assessed, based on 759 usable submissions from 193 junior, community, and senior colleges and universities. Based on the analysis, a set of syllabi to represent the core of a criminal justice curriculum was constructed. Course…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Correctional Rehabilitation, Course Content, Criminal Law
Carter, David L.; And Others – 1978
Issues and trends in criminal justice education are discussed in three papers. The first paper, "Issues and Trends in Criminal Justice Education: The Philosophy of Curriculum Development," by J. D. Jamieson, considers the logic underlying the assumptions made by academic generalists and training-oriented practitioners who influence curriculum…
Descriptors: Conflict, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Needs
Florida State Board of Community Colleges, Tallahassee. – 1996
This report presents results from the Florida State Board of Community Colleges' review of Criminal Justice programs. A preface indicates that concerns related to crime in the state provided the impetus for the review and that it focused on issues related to curricula, funding and costs, labor demand and employment requirements, and labor supply.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
Kennedy, Donald – 1991
A training program was developed to teach narcotic supervisors the proper way of field testing drugs purchased by undercover officers. The instructional system design model followed for this project was the Interservice Model of Systematic Design of Instruction, which consists of five phases (analysis, design, development, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Drug Abuse, Field Tests, Instructional Development
Andrews, Brenda M. – 1991
A training program was developed for male correction officers confronted with pat frisking female inmates. The training goal was to have correction officers in women's prisons identify female inmates' contraband and be able to determine alternatives for male correction officers who were confronted with pat frisking female inmates. The Dick and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Institutions, Females, Instructional Development
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1985
This instructor guide together with a student guide comprise a set of curriculum materials on the criminal justice system. The instructor guide is a resource for planning and managing individualized, competency-based instruction in six major subject areas or blocks, which are further broken down into several units with some units having several…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Relations, Competency Based Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Vocational Instructional Services. – 1985
This course outline is intended to assist vocational instructors in developing and teaching a pre-technical course in law enforcement. The outline, which has been written in accordance with the block progressive method of teaching, addresses the following areas: orientation (a course overview, youth leadership, and the history of law enforcement);…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Services, Compliance (Legal), Course Descriptions
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