Workplace Education

50 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Work place literacy: resource book	[198-]	This manual is for adult educators providing basic skills training for business and industry. Sections include advice on ini...
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...
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...
Workplace literacy annotated bibliography	[1990]	The ERIC database contains a number of materials on the topic of workplace literacy. This annotated bibliography provides ex...
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...
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...
Workplace basics: the skills employers want	1988	The publication summarizes a portion of the workplace skills research conducted under a two-year joint project of the America...
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...
Workplace literacy programs	1988	The Digest examines workplace literacy including the need for it, how it differs from general literacy, literacy skills neede...
Women, work, and literacy	1988	The Digest based on publications of Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), portrays the extent of the problem of illiteracy amo...
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...
Worker-centered learning: a union guide to workplace literacy	1990	Part I, "understanding workplace literacy," contains information to help union leaders understand the issues so they will mak...
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...
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...
Workplace literacy	1990	This is a list of eleven items in the ERIC data base on the subject of workplace literacy. Included are curriculum, reviews ...
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...
Worksite training	1991	The digest reviews recent literature on training conducted by employers and notes trends, methods, and future directions for ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Functional context education	1991	This article defines functional context as "instruction using the context of relevant work or life tasks" and gives examples ...
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...
Workplace literacy programs for nonnative English speakers	1991	Workplace-based literacy programs take place at the work site or at a location designated by the work site, in response to ne...
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...
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...
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...
Workplace education efforts in small business: learning from the field, executive summary	1991	This is the executive summary of a report of a research study of case studies of 18 different workplace education programs op...
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...
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...
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...
Workplace literacy: an update	1992	This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the issues around the phenomenon of workplace literacy. Print resources and resou...
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...
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...
Workplace literacy and people with disabilities: shifting the focus to the employer	1992	In the past, literacy training for persons with disabilities has focused on skills needed to succeed in the workplace, with a...
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...
Workplace ESL instruction: varieties and constraints	1993	This digest describes some of the existing programs to prepare adults for the workplace or to help workers already on the job...
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...
Workplace literacy: lessons from practice	1993	The Digest gives an overview of the status of workplace literacy in reference to the second objective of the fifth national e...
Changing work force	1993	This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the issues around the changing work force in the United States. Print resources a...
Workplace literacy: its role in high performance organizations	1995	The digest describes the relationship between collaborative approaches to workplace literacy and high performance work organi...
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. ...
Evaluating workplace ESL instructional programs	1995	This digest examines evaluation measures and activities used in workplace programs, and discusses issues associated with the ...
Workplace literacy: trends in the literature	1995	This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the trends in the literature and issues around the phenomenon of workplace literac...
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...
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...
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...
Union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction	1996	This digest explores the history of union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction; discusses some models for program delivery; an...
Workplace Literacy (1)	1996	The fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, defines workplace literacy a...
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...