This report provides an overview of a 2-year project aimed at developing an introductory-level training and educational support program for family day care providers in Jackson County, Missouri. The report describes participant characteristics, curriculum development, provider recruitment efforts, formative and summative evaluation procedures and…

This document describes a study conducted to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the provision of leisure and recreation services and community education services in selected areas of the Tayside, Central, and Fife Regions of Scotland. The 18-month-long study gathered 826 responses from 1,060 questionnaires issued in order to study the…

This guide was developed to help Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors to meet their responsibility for assessing the effectiveness of their efforts by examining the extent to which CETA participation has enhanced the longer-term income and employability status of former enrollees. As part 1 of a series, this document…

This paper analyzes policy initiatives undertaken to address the problem of youth unemployment. There are six main sections. Section I provides a general overview of the study, and Section II reviews the problems of differing groups of youth. Differences in the severity and long-run implications of youth labor market difficulties when…

This document provides information on training provided to federal employees in approximately sixty departments and agencies during fiscal years 1974-1976. The report was developed to provide federal executives and managers with information for purposes of comparisons and future planning. Following brief introductory and summary sections, this…

The results of two surveys of students who took the California High School Proficiency Examination are presented, with emphasis on the similarities and differences between passing students and failing students. Major concerns included: the students' reasons for taking the test, sources of information for the students about the test, what changes…

This book focuses on career guidance functions at the secondary school level. In chapter 1, some basic assumptions about career guidance as one aspect of guidance counseling are presented. Chapter 2 discusses the components of a student guidance system: assessment of the student's personal characteristics and the status of the student's career…

A group of interested and academically qualified female Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients was identified to participate in the assessment of a demonstration program to train female Work incentive Program (WIN) participants. Training for electronics technicians was conducted at DeVry Institute of Technology (Chicago) and Ohio…

To ascertain the characteristics and decision-making processes of physicians who choose to practice and remain in areas that have a shortage of physicians, a study analyzed the career decisions of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and non-NHSC physicians (and spouses) with respect to the location of their medical practices. Another objective…

THIRTY-ONE PROFESSIONAL NURSE EDUCATORS IN SCHOOLS OF PRACTICAL NURSING IN THE SOUTHEAST ATTENDED A TWO-WEEK CLINICAL WORKSHOP ON PSYCHIATRIC NURSING AT WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL, STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, IN AUGUST 1966. THEY RECONVENED FOR A THREE-DAY FOLLOW-UP CONFERENCE AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA, IN JANUARY 1967. THE PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO UPDATE THE…

IN AN ATTEMPT TO LEARN (1) THE DEGREE OF ASSIMILATION OF THE ALASKAN NATIVE INTO OUR CULTURE, (2) THE EXTENT THE ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM PLAYED IN THIS ASSIMILIATION, AND (3) THE PART THAT SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS PLAYED IN THE EVALUATION OF THE ALASKAN NATIVE, THE 23 DIRECTORS OF ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN ALASKA WERE QUESTIONED ABOUT THEIR DUTIES,…

Studies of emergent, previously unstudied groups in the context of a complex urban society (such as the Project on Working Women, a three-year study of women in nontraditional blue collar and working class jobs) present methodological problems related to sampling, interviewing, and methods of analysis. Crucial to a successful methodology are…

This paper provides a comparative summary of the salient features of recent research projects in the area of continuing education language courses and considers the implications of trends which emerge. Chapter 1 briefly summarizes investigations to date, both by the BBC Audience Research Unit and other research institutions. Chapter 2 presents an…

The survey of adult education conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics in 1972 is analyzed. The following facts are highlighted in the more detailed analysis of 1972 results: (1) The demand for hours of adult education is distributed in proportion to eligibles in each age and education group, (2) persons with lower levels of…

A followup study of high school students graduating in 1970 from Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Edmonton (Alberta) area schools, investigated protest activity involvement during high school and present political/social activities and concerns. Educational targets of student unrest at the time are indicated as being (1) curriculum…