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Download full textStanley, Patricia; Sargent, Susan – 1992
The California Community Colleges (CCC) use labor market information and student follow-up data for vocational education program development, implementation, and evaluation. In order to justify the development of new programs and the continuation and review of existing programs, the CCC initiated the Labor Market Information (LMI) system in 1987.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College Planning, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Houser, Marianne L. – 1991
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Agricultural Sciences (PGSAS) in stimulating high school students' interest in agriculture. It explored whether PGSAS provided participants with experiences and information that expanded their knowledge of educational and career opportunities related to the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Agricultural Education, Career Awareness, Career Choice
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1991
The Iowa Department of Education, in cooperation with the state's 15 community colleges and Drake University, completed an outcomes study of adult vocational training/retraining programs offered through the Adult and Continuing Education Divisions of the colleges. Study goals were to profile businesses served by the colleges, evaluate employer…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Demand Occupations
Matsen, Marie – 1990
In 1990, a follow-up study was conducted of former students of Lane Community College (LCC) and their employers. The survey targeted three groups of former LCC students: all 1988-89 graduates who earned degrees or certificates, all no-formal-award leavers with 70 or more credits, and all early leavers who had earned less than 70 credits while…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Graduates, College Transfer Students
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (West Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1986
This report summarizes the content and implementation strategies of the orientation seminar that the Unesco Institute for Education (UIE) has conducted to acquaint Arab states with strategies for developing postliteracy and continuing education programs in a lifelong learning framework. The first two sections outline the UIE project on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Arabs
Lally, J. Ronald; And Others – 1987
The Syracuse University Family Development Research Program (FDRP), which ran from 1969 to 1975, provided support and day care for five years to very deprived families with newborn children. Participants, recruited in the third trimester of pregnancy, were low-education families with an annual income of less than $5,000, 85 percent of which were…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Day Care, Delinquency
Thomas, Hollie B.; And Others – 1983
A study identified strategies for increasing the retention of disadvantaged students in nontraditional programs in Florida. The first phase of the study consisted of a review of literature concerning working women, the earnings gap between men and women, barriers to enrollment in nontraditional programs, and recruitment and retention strategies.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Attitudes, Disadvantaged
Hollenback, E. F., Comp. – 1983
These proceedings contain 46 papers presented at a summer workshop on vocational guidance. The first two papers, presented at general sessions, deal with equal access/sex equity and problems in Vocational Education Data System reports. The remaining 44 presentations are divided into these nine categories (with representative topics): testing (the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Career Education
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
This second volume of the summative evaluation of "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS) presents results of quantitative analyses of what MACOS students seemed to learn, what they retained one year later, and how what they learned was different from what students in other social studies courses learned. The first part of the document compares…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anthropology, Classroom Environment, Course Evaluation
Sanford, Timothy R. – 1978
All May 1977 graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were surveyed about their future plans and general impressions of their educational experiences. The response rate was about 46 percent and representative of the school's population, except that blacks were significantly underrepresented among respondents. Overall, about 23…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Blacks, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Vocational Education. – 1980
These activities are suggestions for expanding the scope of activities undertaken to eliminate sex bias and promote nontraditional enrollment. They have primarily been compiled from local applications of vocational education policies in Georgia. Activities are first arranged according to eight major goals dealing with improvement of (1) long-range…
Descriptors: Activities, Attitude Change, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
Sherron, Ronald H. – 1978
A statwide evaluation study of Adult Basic Education (ABE) in Virginia was conducted during the 1977-78 school year and its findings compared to those of a 1970-71 study. The program factors addressed include the following: actions taken on the 1970-71 recommendations; student personnel services; instructional program; curriculum design; the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students
STAHLECKER, LOTAR V., ED. – 1967
INTENDED AS A REFERENCE TOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL PERSONS, THIS COMPILATION CONTAINS 78 ARTICLES SELECTED FOR THEIR PERTINENCE TO OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION FOR MENTALLY RETARDED YOUTH AND ADULTS. THE ARTICLES ARE GROUPED INTO SIX MAJOR AREAS. ON GUIDANCE, 22 ARTICLES COVER THE TRANSITION FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO WORK, COUNSELING, EVALUATION OF WORK POTENTIAL,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Community Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
DeVault, Mike; Lee, Marilyn – 1978
A follow-up study was conducted of students who received a degree, diploma, or certificate from Austin Community College (ACC) in May 1977 to determine their level of satisfaction; 63% (N=189) of the surveyed group responded. Results were tabulated for the group as a whole and for the following subgroups: those receiving Associate of Arts,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic), Employment Patterns
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The 286 students who graduated from Cumberland Community College (CCC) in 1975 were surveyed regarding their educational objectives, educational/occupational status, satisfaction with CCC, method of finding a job, earning potential, relatedness of job to major, and transfer problems and success. Of the 138 (48%) graduates who completed the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Associate Degrees, Career Choice, College Credits
