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Issue: 2021-01
Operationalizing Changes to the Title I Youth Program Under WIOA
DescriptionThis report focuses on implementation of changes to the Youth Program under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014. The changes to that program were designed to focus on serving more out-of-school youth as well as to focus more on work-based learning and apprenticeship, and to coordinate services across multiple local programs. Findings in the report are based primarily on …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Youth, Employers, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramApprenticeship, Wagner-Peyser/Employment Service (ES) Program, Youth Program
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2021-05
Performance Accountability, Eligible Training Providers, Labor Market Information, and Evaluation Requirements under WIOA
DescriptionThis report focuses on implementation of changes to requirements on performance accountability, eligible training providers, labor market information, and evaluation research under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014. Findings in the report are based primarily on site visit interviews conducted in early 2019 with administrators, workforce boards, and front-line staff in 14 …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Youth, Employers, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramApprenticeship, Wagner-Peyser/Employment Service (ES) Program
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2020-08
Technology Based Learning in Workforce Development and Education: A Review of the Research Literature
DescriptionThe rapid adoption and evolution of technology-based learning (TBL) has dramatically altered the landscape of education and training in the U.S and beyond. This report focuses on how TBL has been used for work-related skills and training, factors associated with effectiveness, gaps in the knowledge base, and possible directions for future research. TBL, or e-learning, broadly encompasses …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Youth, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramAdult Program
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 2020-07
The Use of Technology-Based Learning for Basic Skills in Job Corps
DescriptionThis report discusses the use of technology-based learning (TBL), i.e., educational technology or digital learning, for raising reading and math skills of students in the Job Corps, a residential academic and occupational training program offering an intensive set of services and supports to some of the most disadvantaged youth in the U.S. Job Corps services are delivered in over 100 Centers by …
PopulationYouth, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramJob Corps
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Focus Groups
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Issue: 2020-06
Technology-Based Learning in the Public Workforce System: Emerging Policy and Practices in States and American Job Centers
DescriptionThis report explores the use of technology-based learning (TBL), i.e., educational technology or digital learning, in the public workforce system, where it has been used to extend learning opportunities geographically, reduce costs, and allow for individualizing learning. The research addresses TBL use among local American Job Centers (AJCs) and policies and practices in regard to TBL by state …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Youth, Employers, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramWagner-Peyser/Employment Service (ES) Program
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis, Focus Groups
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Issue: 2020-05
Shaping a Portal Web site: A Study of the Collaborative Online Workforce Education and Training Portal Demonstration Project
DescriptionThe study report, Shaping a Portal Web site: A Study of the Collaborative Online Workforce Education and Training Portal Demonstration Project , was completed in 2011 (but finalized in 2014) and shares findings for four state workforce agencies' implementation and use of the Collaborative Online Workforce Education and Training Portal , later known as Workforce Online Learning Information Portal …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Employers, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramApprenticeship, Unemployment Insurance, Wagner-Peyser/Employment Service (ES) Program, Dislocated Worker Program
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2020-04
Local Evaluations of the Cohort 1 P3 Pilots: A Synthesis of Their Findings
DescriptionIn and effort to assist State, local, and tribal entities provide services to disconnected youth more efficiently across multiple federal funding streams, Congress authorized the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3) under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. The Act allowed grantee organizations and their partners to request to pool funds from different federal …
PopulationYouth
ProgramYouth Program
Research MethodologyLiterature Review, Qualitative Analysis, Technical Assistance
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Issue: 2020-03
Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Four Years After Initial Authorization
DescriptionIn and effort to assist State, local, and tribal entities provide services to disconnected youth more efficiently across multiple federal funding streams, Congress authorized the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3) under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. The Act allowed grantee organizations and their partners to request to pool funds from different federal …
PopulationYouth
ProgramYouth Program
Research MethodologyLiterature Review, Qualitative Analysis, Technical Assistance
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Issue: 2020-02
Insights from Federal Evaluation Technical Assistance Liaisons on the Partnerships Supporting Local Evaluations
DescriptionIn and effort to assist State, local, and tribal entities provide services to disconnected youth more efficiently across multiple federal funding streams, Congress authorized the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3) under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. The Act allowed grantee organizations and their partners to request to pool funds from different federal …
PopulationYouth
ProgramYouth Program
Research MethodologyLiterature Review, Qualitative Analysis, Technical Assistance
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Issue: 2020-01
Estimating Job Corps Cost Per Enrollee and Cost per Graduate
DescriptionJob Corps is the nation's largest residential education and job training program for at-risk youth. The program provides training to approximately 60,000 participants each year. This report examines various methodologies for estimating the cost per enrollee and cost per graduate to help inform the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) calculations for the Job Corps program Annual Report. …
PopulationYouth
ProgramJob Corps, Youth Program
Research MethodologyLiterature Review, Qualitative Analysis