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Sansregret, Marthe – 1984
Adults learn from many sources, such as volunteer work, community services, homemaking, jobs, and other activities, and they increasingly want this learning to be recognized so that they can reenter the job market, get a promotion, or return to college. Therefore, scientific methods have been developed to help adults document their experiential…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Certification, College Credits
Boli, John; And Others – 1984
As part of the Stanford Curriculum Study, information is provided on the university's approach to monitoring undergraduate education through research into student academic records. Trends in bachelor's degrees granted in the various departments from 1960-1961 to 1981-1982 at Stanford are charted and compared to national trends. Course enrollments…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Bachelors Degrees, College Curriculum, Credit Courses
Los Angeles City Schools, CA. Div. of Instructional Planning and Services. – 1974
The pamphlet offers unit-by-unit outlines for a high school course in consumer economics. The 20 objectives of the course stress ability to: assess the proper use of human and material resources, understand the consumer's role in the market system, distinguish the difference between needs and wants, recognize the efficacy of interacting with…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Course Objectives
McElveen, Peggy C. – 1977
Supporting performance objective 40 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on posting to the cash record book from cash proof forms are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include five cash sales reports…
Descriptors: Accounting, Answer Keys, Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping
McElveen, Peggy C. – 1977
Supporting performance objective 33 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on maintaining subsidiary ledgers are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include source documents of ten business transactions,…
Descriptors: Accounting, Answer Keys, Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping
McElveen, Peggy C. – 1977
Supporting performance objective 34 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on posting (transferring) entries from journals to ledgers are included in this packet, which is one of a set. The student materials include a cash receipts journal…
Descriptors: Accounting, Answer Keys, Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping
Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
Written to provide business executives with examples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that successfully prepare people to be skilled workers, this guide also describes the financial incentives for hiring unemployed and economically disadvantaged persons. In an overview of CETA and Title VII programs, private industry…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Incentives
National Council of Women of Thailand. – 1977
Chachoengsao Province and Lampang Province were selected in 1976 as sites for an "action survey" to identify appropriate program areas for rural women so that governmental and voluntary agencies could be assisted in planning. During December 994 families and 1,272 women (ranging from 15-70 years old) were surveyed. Interviews were…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Developing Nations, Economic Opportunities, Employed Women
Download full textGoor, Jeanette; Farris, Elizabeth – 1981
The availability of evening and weekend baccalaureate degree credit courses and factors that discourage institutions from introducing or expanding such courses were investigated through a fast response survey that was sent to a national sample of universities and other four-year colleges. Among the findings are the following: almost three-fourths…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, Credit Courses
PDF pending restorationDillon, Kristine E. – 1981
Deans and directors of continuing education programs were surveyed to determine continuing education enrollments, staffing, and program emphases. The study objective was to assess the extent to which continuing education programs may provide new sources of professional challenge for traditional faculty. In 1979, 125 deans and program directors…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Students, College Faculty, College Students
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA. Cooperative Education Research Center. – 1978
Information on cooperative education programs gathered by survey is presented. Listed are 992 programs operational with 459 junior-college programs and 533 four-year-college programs. In addition to listing the colleges and universities with such programs, six categories of information about the institution and the program are provided if known.…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Credits, College Curriculum
Lynch, James J. – Keystone Schoolmaster, 1979
Results of a survey of the practices of colleges in regard to the acceptance of the College Entrance Examination Board Advanced Placement and transferability of college credits earned while in high school are reported. Survey questions were designed to evaluate and group the college practices into categories that would enable counselors and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advanced Placement, Articulation (Education), College Bound Students
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. – 1973
Results of a one-year investigation on lifelong learning by the Michigan State University Task Force on Lifelong Education are presented. Topics concern the following: current trends, a definition of lifelong education, lifelong education at Michigan State, the university's present objectives and lifelong educational arrangements, major academic…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Admission, College Credits, College Role
Miller, Tyson A. – 1979
New Hampshire employers, expecially large employers, see a significant need for continuing education for their employees, according to a survey of 16,000 business, industry, and service organizations in the state. Of the 1,883 employers (12%) who responded to the mailed questionnaire and the 68 employers who were interviewed, 84 percent would like…
Descriptors: Adults, Business, Continuing Education, Credit Courses
ENDWRIGHT, D.K. – 1967
THE SUGGESTED APPROACH TO PROVIDING ADEQUATE ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PRISON INMATES EMPHASIZES ACCREDITATION OF VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION CENTERS AS THE ULTIMATE GOAL. THE PURPOSE, OBJECTIVES, NEEDS, AND PRESENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF SEVEN FLORIDA INSTITUTIONS ARE OUTLINED IN DETAIL. COLLEGE AND DALE…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Vocational Education, Attendance
