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Gottfredson, Gary D.; Joffe, Richard D. – 1980
The experimental development of occupational classifications based on regularities of movement of workers among jobs has recently been suggested to assist in placing job seekers into available jobs by A. R. Miller and others in "The Dictionary of Occupational Titles: A Critical Review," 1980. The potential of mobility-based classifications is…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Demography, Employment Opportunities
Coogan, Mark, Ed. – 1981
This report abstracts and summarizes 19 Indiana Youth Employment and Training Programs (YETPs) funded in FY 1979-80 with moneys allocated by Subpart A, Title IV YETP of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act of 1977. Projects are grouped into subject categories of ongoing and planning projects. Within categories, the projects are…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adolescents, Career Development, Credits
Drummond, Darl E. – 1978
This final report examines the progress of the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education (VTAE) program to recruit and employ minorities for existing and future teaching and administrative vacancies. Recruitment activities in the vocational studies center are outlined, along with activities of the program's advisory committee and state…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 is reproduced in its entirety. The act, public law 95-523, is designed to translate into practical reality the right of all Americans to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair compensation rates; to assert the federal government's responsibility to use all programs and policies…
Descriptors: Adults, Budgeting, Career Guidance, Economic Factors
Hartz, John D. – 1978
A project was conducted to improve the employability and employment prospects for students by (1) identifying non-job task skills and characteristics important to job acquisition and retention, (2) constructing an instrument to assess the identified skills and characteristics, (3) pilot testing the instrument with graduates from two postsecondary…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Construction (Process), Employment Qualifications, Information Dissemination
Ferrini, Paul – 1977
The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) retraining program is for air traffic controllers who have been removed from their jobs due to either operational or medical disqualifications. The FAA's New England region second career program deals mainly with older adults who have completed their child rearing and related family responsibilities by…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults
Kirschner Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. – 1975
The Penasco School System's Career Education Program (PENCEP) in New Mexico is being evaluated over a three-year time span. Second-wave data collection (reported here) took place during the third semester of PENCEP's operation, midpoint in its development. A school site similar to Penasco but which has no formal, externally funded career education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Decision Making Skills, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Conti, Gary J.; And Others – 1978
New Start, a public service program sponsored by Spoon River College (Illinois) in cooperation with local public agencies and individuals in the community, was created to provide broad-based quality education, which includes both academic and vocational skills and personalized educational placement and counseling. Students qualify for New Start by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1979
Three years of cooperative effort by participating Illinois community colleges and the Ad Hoc Counseling Task Force resulted in the 1977 approval, by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), of a position paper on comprehensive counseling services and in the endorsement of guidelines in four student service areas. The ICCB supports counseling…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness
Levine, Mark, Comp.; Kravitz, Marjorie, Ed. – 1979
This is a bibliography of documents selected from the data base of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service that provide an overview of comprehensive treatment programs in local jails. The citations follow an explanation of how to obtain the documents and are arranged under the following topics: (1) state of the art, (2) jail management and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Citations (References), Community Programs
Kuhlman-Harrison, Judy – 1980
This description of the development of the Experience-Based Career Education Program by State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri, lists the objectives: (1) continuing an elementary career education program by providing resource materials to teachers; (2) implementing an in-school experience-based cluster program in high schools; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness
GEOFFRAY, ALICE R. – 1966
NINETY DISADVANTAGED WHITE AND NEGRO FEMALE TRAINEES, 18 TO 44 YEARS OF AGE, WERE GIVEN 950 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION IN TYPING, SHORTHAND, BUSINESS SPEECH, AND ANCILLARY COURSES DURING A 24-WEEK PERIOD. THE EXPERIMENTAL PHASE OF THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF DEVELOPING ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE GROUP TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING BUSINESS SPEECH TO ADULTS WHOSE…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, Counseling, Demonstration Programs
Salt Lake City School District, UT. – 1980
This summary evaluation report is a short synopsis of the first-year activities of the Resource Vocational Program, which provided career development and vocational education--employability development--services in the least restrictive environment to a group of mild to moderate handicapped youth. A brief description outlines scope and four major…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Lerman, Averil – 1978
Written for women on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) who are seeking employment, this booklet is designed to introduce the possibility of taking a non-traditional job (a job traditionally held by men). Chapter 1 discusses the dilemma women heads of households face in finding jobs that will adequately support their families. Chapter…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Decision Making Skills, Employment Opportunities
Miller, Geoffrey Clark – 1979
Project Proud Option of Palmer, Massachusetts, had the following objectives: (1) develop and implement a system for assessing the functioning levels of handicapped students in institutional schools as these functional levels relate to already existing job task outlines and performance objectives; (2) develop new job opportunities within the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level, Educational Diagnosis
