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Download full textACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
ACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
ACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
ACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
Long Island City Business Development Corp., NY. – 1992
In an effort to promote economic development in the Long Island City (New York) area, a study was conducted of the training and human resource needs of local manufacturing firms and the demographic characteristics of the local labor force. Specifically, the study sought to examine company needs, highlight programs available to address those needs,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Employer Attitudes, Employment Patterns
Medoff, James L. – 1982
The impact of certain types of training on labor productivity or performance in different settings was assessed. In the manufacturing sector, it was found that the extent of in-house, employer-sponsored, job-related training has a positive relationship with output per labor hour. The extent of this type of training received out-of-house did not…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Blue Collar Occupations, Job Training, Labor Force Development
New York Univ., NY. New Careers Development Center. – 1967
A design to provide core-skill training to enable 500 nonprofessionals to assume entry-level civil service positions in police, health and welfare, inspections, and housing and relocation work involves three phases. In the first phase, to last four weeks, trainees learn basic job skills through such methods as role playing and job simulation and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Group Discussion, Inservice Education, Job Training
Community Building Maintenance Corp., Chicago, IL. – 1972
A demonstration program, administered by a community based building maintenance, management, and construction corporation, was developed to provide technical training for minority adults in construction, building maintenance, and property management in the Chicago area. The program was concerned with seeking solutions to the lack of housing, job…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Building Trades, Community Organizations, Construction Industry
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
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Direct linkCihak, David F.; Kessler, Kelby B.; Alberto, Paul A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study determined the effectiveness of a commercially produced handheld computer, as a prompting system in facilitating the generalization and increasing the probability of long-term maintenance of vocational skills by adolescents with moderate intellectual disabilities. Four students successfully used the system in learning a task and then…
Descriptors: Prompting, Mental Retardation, Computers, Generalization
Olsson, Annika – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2007
Customer orientation is strongly visible in the visions and strategies of most organizations, but how do these visions and strategies move from intentions to practice? This question provides the focus for this research which aims to acquire deeper insights into this process. The point of departure is the change in perspective from a product to a…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Experiential Learning, Individual Development, Employee Attitudes
Constantine, Jill M.; Neumark, David – 1994
The relationship between training and the growth in wage inequality was examined through an analysis of data from the January 1983 and January 1991 supplements to the Current Population Survey. The analysis focused on whether the distribution of training has changed in ways that may explain changes in the wage structure during the period studied…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Opportunities, Job Training, On the Job Training
Mark, Jorie Lester – 1984
A questionnaire was distributed to 1,305 companies to study the basic skills training provided. Of 62 responses, 41 companies had basic skills training programs. Respondents represented these types of companies: communications and utilities, finance and insurance, manufacturing, wholesalers, retailers, health and hospitals, and mining, and had…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Costs
Gross, Edward – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
Variables related to job satisfaction are discussed, such as technical and social skills required, and a four-process model is described: in-selection, out-selection, socialization, and counter-socialization. (Author)
Descriptors: Job Training, Models, On the Job Training, Organizational Development
Stromsdorfer, Ernst W.; Barclay, Suzanne – 1979
A significant amount of on-the-job occupational training is occurring in the private sector, though the data on its extent and nature are extremely sketchy. Estimates of total economic costs in the 1974-75 period range from a crude measure of 100 billion dollars to one that is somewhat more reliable of about 40 to 50 billion dollars. Most of this…
Descriptors: Adults, Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices
