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Download full textMesics, Emil, Comp.; Marcus, Samuel, Comp. – 1969
Pertinent items having to do with national policy on hard-core unemployed and specific applications and techniques drawn from organizational experiences are identified. The compilers focused upon 1968 publications; the earliest publication date is 1964. The 41 entries are organized under the following headings: (1) Poverty in the Community and the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Stanley, Charlton S. – 1968
A study of the relationship between certain test scores and probable training and vocational success was made. Examined were three major training areas: power sewing machine, nurse aide, and clerical office work. Six tests were tested for their ability to predict success: the WAIS Revised Beta; Purdue Pegboard; English, California Surveys of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adults, Aptitude, Disadvantaged
Wilson, Kathryn A.; Thompson, Donald L. – 1974
The evaluation and placement of rehabilitation clients has been problematic. In addition to physical and emotional problems, these individuals suffer from a variety of unique handicaps. With this in mind, a program was developed to assess the present abilities and future potential of such a client to perform certain work tasks. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Program Descriptions, Rehabilitation Programs, Simulated Environment
Stevens, David W. – 1974
This study, an interim assessment, has attempted to understand the role of the Federal-State public employment service as a job search intermediary for insured unemployed workers. The conceptual role, the actual role, and claimant responsiveness to role change have been studied of three selected local offices in providing job search services to…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship, Job Applicants
Maley, Donald – 1969
This paper is a discussion of a 4-year research and development project dealing with the cluster concept approach to vocational education. The concept is a form of vocational education that prepares the individual to enter into gainful employment in a number of occupations which have sufficient commonalities in human requirements and kinds of work…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Job Placement
Day, H. I. – 1971
A great deal of literature concerning work, play and job satisfaction is summarized and integrated. The author discusses a number of different conceptions of what work actually is and concludes that, according to all definitions, work is an instrumental activity with only extrinsic satisfactions. It is his contention, however, that work may have…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Employment
Haynes, Suzanne Groweg – 1970
This analysis of secondary vocational education in Texas considers enrollments, teacher units, expenditures, and placement, and their relationship with the State's changing occupational needs. The data came from the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Employment Commission, and various other public and private agencies. The small enrollment in…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Job Placement, Labor Needs
Findley, William Louis – 1967
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the financial investment of public schools in vocational training and the post-school economic status of educable mentally retarded in four communities. Answers were sought to questions centering around: (1) school costs for vocational preparation, (2) the earning power of the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs
Child Welfare League of America, Inc., New York, NY. – 1970
The responsibility of the Child Care Worker Training Project was to train 500 unemployed people from five cities in an experimental and demonstration project designed to overcome the shortage of child care personnel. Each of the centers (Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and New York) developed its own method of recruitment, short-term…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
International Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1970
The purpose of this manual is to provide a basic guide for governments and other organizations in developing countries who want to either establish vocational assessment and preparation centers or develop training facilities for disabled persons. Contents include: (1) Establishing a Vocational Assessment and Work Preparation Center, (2) Staffing…
Descriptors: Career Development, Developing Nations, Guides, Job Placement
Swanson, Gordon I.; Jervis, Robert – 1973
Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the eighth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. A successful career education program is dependent upon professional development. Based on this premise, the monograph: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Practices, Job Placement
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1968
This document is a collection of project reports from the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD), which is designed to meet the vocational needs of users from kindergarten through retirement by providing occupational facts and/or data which can be converted into vocational information. The project reports cover such concepts as…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1967
Designed to meet the vocational needs of users from kindergarten through retirement, the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD) provides occupational facts and/or data which can be converted into vocational information. This annual report describes the first year of development of a prototype of the ISVD, the completion of which is…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
CAMPBELL, NORRIS C. – 1966
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT JOB PLACEMENT ACTIVITY AMONG SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH WAS EXPLORED IN A SURVEY OF (1) SCHOOL COUNSELOR INVOLVEMENT IN JOB PLACEMENT, (2) ROLE OF OTHER AGENCIES, AND (3) SELF-EFFORT OF STUDENTS. TWO GROUPS WERE STUDIED--(1) 947 EAST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN AND (2) 745 ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FRESHMEN. SEX DISTRIBUTION WAS ABOUT…
Descriptors: College Students, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services, High School Students
BYRAM, HAROLD M. – 1965
AS A RESULT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF AND STUDY BY THE STAFF OF THREE MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN A RESEARCH PROJECT BETWEEN 1963 AND 1965, THIS MANUAL WAS PREPARED FOR USE BY ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, AND CITIZENS' COMMITTEES IN EVALUATING AND PLANNING LOCAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. IT EXPLAINS THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL DIRECTOR,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Bibliographies, Career Guidance
