Workplace Education

50 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Annotated bibliography on issues in literacy and the U.S. workforce	1990	A selective, annotated bibliography of thirteen of the most recent and best resources on issues related to workplace literacy...
Assessing workplace performance problems: a checklist	1992	This digest looks at questions used in business training departments to assess the nature and relative importance of worker p...
Beyond training: a field test of the American Society for Training and Development's Workplace Basics, executive summary	1992	This is the executive summary of a booklet summarizes a field test done of the Workplace Basics training package supported by...
Bottom line: basic skills in the workplace	1988	This joint publication of the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education describes the need for improved b...
Business results through essential skills and literacy	2010	This guide is directed toward business leaders who are involved in human resources and supervision of employees and who are c...
California's workforce for the year 2000	1991	Article summarizes the report of the California Workplace Literacy Task Force, chaired by Tom Sticht, which studied the state...
Changing work force	1993	This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the issues around the changing work force in the United States. Print resources a...
Closing the skills gap; impact of a workplace literacy program	1991	This report describes the features and results of an innovative workplace learning collaboration between Motorola Inc. and Me...
Corporate/school partnerships: learner centered or business centered	1999	This publication looks at various types of partnership arrangements that business/industry and education have established and...
Do workplace literacy programs promote high skills or low wages?	1991	This article advocates workplace literacy program designed to foster high performance workplace structures rather than mainta...
Doing business together: adult education and business partnering to build a qualified workforce	February 2011	This report is based on two surveys and an invitational Roundtable and provides information on successful collaborations betw...
English that works: preparing adult English language learners for success in the workforce and community	2002	This Q & A discusses efforts in adult ESL education to link language instruction to workforce and civic skills. It looks at t...
Ethnography and adult workplace literacy program design	1991	The digest reviews ethnography, which seeks to understand and represent the points of view of the members of a particular cul...
Evaluating workplace ESL instructional programs	1995	This digest examines evaluation measures and activities used in workplace programs, and discusses issues associated with the ...
Expanding horizons: pacesetters in adult education for work	June 26, 2009	This report is an outcome of a [job and college] Readiness Roundtable sponsored by the Council for Advancement of Adult Liter...
Functional context education	1991	This article defines functional context as "instruction using the context of relevant work or life tasks" and gives examples ...
Government as a high performance employer; a SCANS report for America 2000	[1992]	The document advocates the government becoming a high performance employer. The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessry...
How do you know if it's working? Evaluating the effectiveness of workplace literacy programs	1992	In the workplace, literacy programs are viewed as components of "training," and as such needs to be evaluated differently fro...
Integrating SCANS competencies into ESL instruction resource packet	1999	This resource book provides teachers with ideas and activities for integrating into English language instruction for adults t...
Job-related basic skills	1990	The Digest defines job-related basic skills and reviews the current consensus on their importance. Levels of job literacy, e...
Learner-centered worker education program	1991	This digest a describes a writing based, learner-centered program developed by The Hastings Institute, a non-profit corporati...
Learning a living: a blueprint for high performance: a SCANS report for America 2000	1992	This document is Part 1 of a final report of the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and is a follow...
Legal considerations concerning literacy testing in the workplace	1992	The paper reviews the legal background regarding testing of various types in the workplace. Covered are provisions of the Ci...
Manual for union-management educational partnerships	[199 2]	This manual was written for employers who will become involved in formal and long term workforce training. Included are dete...
Mobile worker in the flexible workplace	1999	This alert looks at the trends and issues regarding work in alternative environments such as the home. References are given...
New directions for cooperative education	1999	This digest explores the factors helping and hindering cooperative education at this juncture in its history, examines how it...
New ways of learning in the workplace	1995	The digest addresses some of the new ways to learn at work, such as action learning, situated learning, and incidental learni...
Post-employment education and training models in the welfare-to-work grants program	1999	This paper synthesizes information about providing education and training after an individual is employed -- one type of post...
Preparing limited English proficient persons for the workplace	2000	This digest describes cultural considerations and effective approaches for LEP individuals' work force development, including...
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow	July 2009	This report presents a projection of potential developments in the U.S. labor market over the next five to ten years and disc...
R.O.A.D. to success	1991	R.O.A.D. to Success is a workplace literacy program designed to help drivers who have trouble reading the Commercial Driver's...
Return on investment (roi) from adult education and training; measuring the economic impact of a better educated and trained U.S. workforce	2011	This position paper asserts that billions of dollars could be earned, saved, and pumped back into the struggling economy as a...
Review of the National Workplace Literacy Program	1991	The report examines projects funded during the National Workplace Literacy Program's first year of operation, including a rev...
Rock Valley College private sector partnerships for English literacy, final report, Aug 12, 1987 - June 30, 1988	1988	The report describes the results of a project to recruit, provide tutoring, and provide classes for English as a Second Langu...
SCANS and the new vocationalism	1995	The digest examines whether and how the SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) report has influenced ed...
SCANS Blueprint for action: building community coalitions	1992	This document is Part II of a final report of the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and is a follo...
School-to-work transition: its role in achieving universal literacy	1991	The digest reviews the national education objective of strengthening the connection between education and work. The major to...
Selling workplace ESL instructional programs	1995	This digest explores the issue of why companies do and do not provide workplace basic skills and ESL instruction. It reports...
Serving welfare recipients with learning disabilities in a work first environment	1998	This analysis describes the results for the adult learning disabled population of the U.S. welfare reform model which emphasi...
Skill standards; job analysis profiles are just the beginning	1997	The alert summarizes the trend toward use of skills standards to align the education system with the emerging, high performan...
Task analysis strategies and practices	1997	The brief presents information on current practices and examples of the various types of task analyses, highlighting their st...
Teaching the SCANS competencies	1993	The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) studied changes in the world of work and implications of tho...
Training practices for small businesses	1999	The brief presents information on the training practices of small businesses. Types of training, barriers, and cost effectiv...
Training to teach ESL in the workplace	1990	There is an increased demand for literacy and skills training in the workplace, and a corresponding increase in the number of...
Union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction	1996	This digest explores the history of union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction; discusses some models for program delivery; an...
Welfare reform: three states' approaches show promise of increasing work participation	1997	This report reviews the experiences of three states--Idaho, Massachusetts, and Michigan--with increasing the participation of...
Welfare to work: the role of adult basic and literacy education	1995	The brief reviews some of the research findings regarding the link of adult basic and literacy education to welfare reform. ...
What work requires of schools: a SCANS report for America 2000	1991	The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) studied changes in the world of work and implications of tho...
What works!: guidelines for workplace skills enhancement programs	[1989]	This handbook is designed for adult educators to use in establishing a successful workplace skills enhancement program at bus...
Whatever happened to workplace literacy?	2003	This paper examines what has happened to workplace literacy programs in the United States in the period after the end of the ...