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Peer reviewedVolkwein, James Fredericks; Lorang, Wendell G. – Research in Higher Education, 1996
Analysis of transcripts and survey responses of undergraduate students in one university identified three types of student extenders (full-time students taking longer than normal to complete a degree), determined by financial need, grade-consciousness, and special situations. Characteristics of these groups are compared with those posited by…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Credits, College Students, Course Selection (Students)
Direct linkCondly, Steven J.; Clark, Richard E.; Stolovitch, Harold D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2003
A meta-analytic review of all adequately designed field and laboratory research on the use of incentives to motivate performance is reported. Of approximately 600 studies, 45 qualified. The overall average effect of all incentive programs in all work settings and on all work tasks was a 22% gain in performance. Team-directed incentives had a…
Descriptors: Incentives, Job Performance, Meta Analysis, Motivation Techniques
Lerner, Jennifer Brown; Brand, Betsy – American Youth Policy Forum, 2006
This compendium identifies and describes schools, programs, and policies that link secondary and postsecondary education to help students earn college credit or take college-level courses while in high school. It raises issues for practitioners and policymakers to consider as these program grow and target a wider range of students. This compendium…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High Schools, Program Length, Student Financial Aid
Download full textEkstrom, Ruth B.; And Others – 1984
Although youth employment programs operate on the premise that training will produce economic returns in the form of higher employment probabilities, better jobs, and higher wages, the efficacy of these programs has sometimes been in doubt. To determine if and how these programs produce youths who can find and keep a job, 3-year follow-up data…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Employment Level, Employment Programs, Job Satisfaction
Capps, Kline – 1987
A questionnaire was developed to determine the understanding and response of student teaching field experience directors to the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) student teaching requirement. NCATE-approved schools in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska were surveyed. The NCATE requirement…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs
Olson, Lawrence S. – 1978
A study examined decisions involving private, postsecondary vocational schooling using three large, national sets of data (from the National Longitudinal Surveys) on males. Particular attention is paid to three target groups--inner-city and rural individuals and dropouts. Various equations were estimated using a life-cycle model of time allocation…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Benefits, Inner City, Intelligence
Olson, Lawrence S. – 1978
A study examined decisions involving private, postsecondary vocational schooling using three large, national sets of data (from the National Longitudinal Surveys) on males. Particular attention is paid to three target groups: inner-city and rural individuals and dropouts. Various equations were estimated using a life-cycle model of time allocation…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Benefits, Inner City, Intelligence
PDF pending restorationGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1978
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the administration of military skill training programs. It found that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends about $3.4 billion a year to provide skill training to 1.2 million military personnel. The DOD could save millions of dollars by requiring (1) the services to provide a minimum of forty…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Course Content, Educational Finance
BRAZZIEL, WILLIAM F. – 1965
IN A STUDY COMPLETED IN 1964 BY THE NORFOLK DIVISION OF VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE, AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE DECISIONS OF 224 UNEMPLOYED, UNSKILLED MEN IN THE NORFOLK-PORTSMOUTH METROPOLITAN LABOR MARKET AREA TO FOREGO RETRAINING UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1962. THE MAJOR DETERRENTS WERE AN…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Attitudes, Family Status, Individual Characteristics
PEERBOOM, PEARL – 1967
THIS SURVEY WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE OPERATIONAL DETAILS ABOUT COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR A RELATIVELY LONG PERIOD AND ARE THEREFORE LIKELY TO HAVE ADEQUATE BASES FOR MEANINGFUL EVALUATIONS OF THEIR RESULTS, AND TO SPOTLIGHT GOOD PROGRAMS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL POLICY. THOSE PROGRAMS WERE…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Individual Needs
BATEMAN, C.W. – 1966
A MODEL IS CONSTRUCTED TO DETERMINE THE BEST PROPORTION OF FORMAL AND ON-THE-JOB TRAINING IN MILITARY OCCUPATIONS. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO THE UNIQUE SITUATION OF ENLISTED PERSONNEL'S FIXED LENGTH OF SERVICE, THE SMALL PERCENTAGE OF RE-ENLISTMENT, AND THE NECESSITY OF TRAINING ALL ENLISTEES FOR ASSIGNED OCCUPATIONS. THE MODEL FORMULA…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Enlisted Personnel, Mathematical Models, On the Job Training
Aker, George F. – 1968
A nation-wide program in adult basic education requires an organizational structure which will provide a practical and theoretical, centralized and decentralized outlook. This system should include a national commission, state-wide committees, and community councils which would facilitate communication. Leaders must be selected and prepared and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bibliographies, Community Organizations
Evaluation of Selected Aspects of the Homemaking Service Program in the City of Rochester, New York.
Alexander, Frank D. – 1968
The objectives of the study were: to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the teaching homemakers and of the women with whom they worked; to indicate the influence of selected training on the teaching homemakers; and to show the training program input. Data were collected through the pre- and post-testing of teaching homemakers, and a…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Extension Education, Family Income, Home Economics
PDF pending restorationBaker, Curtis O.; Wells, Agnes Q. – 1977
Data from the annual Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) on associate degrees and other formal awards below the baccalaureate level in institutions of higher education in the United States are presented. Completions of organized occupational curriculums in a variety of technologies normally offered in two-year collegiate programs…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates, Engineering Technology
Mitchell, Rie Rogers – 1969
A study was made to compare the effectiveness (determined by individual behavior change) of three sensitivity training conditions--spaced, massed, and combined--compared with each other and with a control group (no training); and to determine the relationship between 25 personal characteristics and the behavior change under the various conditions…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Experimental Groups
