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Issue: 1999
Testing and Assessment: An Employer's Guide to Good Practices
DescriptionThe Employment and Training Administration has published the first in a series of Testing and Assessment Guides: "An Employer's Guide to Good Practices". This Guide can help managers and workforce development professionals understand and use employment testing and assessment practices to meet their organization's human resource goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in …
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Issue: 1999
America and the New Economy
DescriptionThis monograph is both an intellectual map and a guide to action in the new economic environment. It describes a new economy founded on a new set of competitive standards that have transformed organizations, economic cycles, jobs and skill requirements. This monograph is about the real economy of organizations, people and technology, not the statistical economy so often reported in second hand …
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Issue: 1999
Skills and Tasks for Jobs: A SCANS Report for America 2000
DescriptionThe Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was established in February 1990 to examine the demands of the work place and to determine whether the current and future workforce is capable of meeting those demands. Commission members included 31 representatives from the nation's schools, businesses, unions and government. The Commission issued its first report, "What Work …
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Issue: 1999
National Job Corps Study: Report on Study Implementation
DescriptionThe Job Corps program has been a central part of federal efforts to provide employment assistance to disadvantaged youths since 1964. The National Job Corps Study, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), is designed to provide a thorough and rigorous assessment of the impacts of Job Corps on key participant outcomes. This report describes the implementation of random assignment and sample …
PopulationYouth
ProgramJob Corps
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Issue: 1999
Evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Policy Workgroup: Final Report and Recommendations
DescriptionThis report presents a list of seven recommendations concerning the future direction of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system based on the work of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Policy Workgroup. The Policy Workgroup, established in January 1998, was composed of State, Regional and Federal workforce development staff. The charge of the Group was to examine …
PopulationAdult
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
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Issue: 1999
Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Policy Workgroup: Final Report and Recommendations
DescriptionThe Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) Policy Workgroup was established in January 1998. The WPRS Policy Workgroup was composed of State, Regional and Federal workforce development staff. The Policy Workgroup's charge was to examine the WPRS system as it has evolved from 1994-98 and provide recommendations to improve its quality and to make it more effective in achieving its …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1999
National Job Corps Study: Report on the Process Analysis
DescriptionThis report presents the findings of a process study of Job Corps operations. The study was conducted as part of the National Job Corps Study, whose purpose is to measure the effects of Job Corps participation on students' post-program earnings and related outcomes. In support of this broad goal, the process study describes and documents program services and operations. Data for the process study …
PopulationYouth
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Issue: 1999
An Evaluation of the JTPA, Section 401, Indian and Native American Program
DescriptionThis report presents the findings from a three-year study of the JTPA Title IV, Section 401, Indian and Native American (INA) Program. The program is designed to deliver employment and training services to Indians and Native Americans throughout the nation, through a network of grantees that includes tribal governments and other Indian organizations. The study was designed to examine the goals …
PopulationNative American
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Issue: 1999
National Job Corps Study: The Value of the Output and Services Produced by Students While Enrolled in Job Corps
DescriptionThe Job Corps program serves economically disadvantaged youths between the ages of 16 and 24 who can benefit from a wide range of education, vocational training, and support services in a predominantly residential setting. The National Job Corps Study, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was designed to provide a rigorous assessment of the effectiveness of the program. As part of that study, …
PopulationYouth
ProgramJob Corps
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Issue: 1999
State Financed and Customized Training Programs
DescriptionThis report was prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor¿s Employment and Training Administration and describes the States¿ customized, employer specific training--including current and historical data--for incumbent workers and new hires. As the States prepare to implement the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, state programs are of particular interest as the Act authorizes the expenditure …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis