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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive? — Aug 1, 2010

It is unclear if vouchers increase educational productivity or are purely redistributive, benefiting recipients by giving them access to more desirable peers at others' expense. To examine this, the authors study an educational voucher programme in Colombia which allocated vouchers by lottery.

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Efforts to Improve the Quality of Vocational Education in Secondary Schools: Impact of Federal and State Policies — Jan 1, 2004

Congress has mandated a National Assessment of Vocational Education to gauge the effect of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act Amendments of 1998 (Perkins III) on U.S. secondary education. As part of the assessment, using case studies from seven states and a national teacher survey, the authors analyzed the impact of Perkins III in improving vocational education. After acknowledging the limited time and sample…

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Outcomes and Processes in Vocational Learning: A Review of the Literature — Dec 31, 2003

This report critically reviews a range of evidence on different vocational learning programmes, their purposes and outcomes, and the learning processes involved.

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Emerging Policy for Vocational Learning in England: Will It Lead to a Better System? — Dec 31, 2003

This report analyses recent policy initiatives in England relating to vocational learning, and compares them with policies in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Who's Teaching, and Who Will Teach, Vocational Education? — Dec 31, 1999

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Generic Skills at Work: Implications for Occupationally-Oriented Education — Dec 31, 1997

This chapter takes a socio-cultural approach to examine generic skills in the context of technical work, with a particular focus on three skills: problem solving, communications, and teamwork.

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Using Alternative Assessments in Vocational Education — Jan 1, 1997

Covers a study of the utility of alternative forms of student assessment for vocational education, the primary objective of which was to describe various alternative assessments currently available and offer criteria for choosing among them.

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Integrating academic and vocational education : a review of the literature, 1987-1992 — Dec 31, 1994

RESEARCH BRIEF

Integrating Academic and Vocational Education: Lessons from Early Innovators — Dec 31, 1993

Analyzed the experience of eight schools that had begun their integration efforts several years before the Perkins amendments.

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Classrooms at Work: Teaching Generic Skills in Academic and Vocational Settings — Jan 1, 1993

This study examined how generic skills and work-related attitudes can be taught in academic and vocational high school classrooms. An instructional model for these skills and attitudes was identified that included instructional goals, classroom design, teaching techniques, and school context.

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Education and Training for Work in the Fifty States: A Compendium of State Policies — Dec 31, 1992

Provides an overview of five federal and state education and training policy areas: (1) secondary vocational education, (2) postsecondary vocational education, (3) Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs, (4) welfare-to-work programs, ...

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The implementation of statewide standards and measures of performance, results from the 1992 national assessment of vocational education — Dec 31, 1992

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Emerging Uses of Computers for Education: An Overview of Tools and Issues for Vocational Educators — Dec 31, 1991

Conducted as project of the National Center for Research on Vocational Education (NCRVE), examines emerging computer-based educational technologies and discusses their current penetration into, and potential relevance for vocational education.

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Local Accountability in Vocational Education: A Theoretical Model and Its Limitations in Practice — Dec 31, 1991

Recent policy initiatives have sought to improve vocational education through increased accountability. The purpose of this study was to analyze existing local accountability systems in vocational education.

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Bright Hopes, Dim Realities: Vocational Innovation in American Correctional Education — Dec 31, 1991

To shed new light on the history of correctional education in America and on the implications of that history for reform in correctional education in the 1990s, this Note identifies some general tendencies in the history of correctional education ...

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RESEARCH BRIEF

High School Vocational Education: Low Esteem, Little Clout — Dec 31, 1991

Many ingrained obstacles must be overcome before proposed educational reforms to integrate academic and vocational curricula can be achieved. Convincing experimental demonstrations of the practicability and desirability of integration are required.

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Who Gets What and Why: Curriculum Decisionmaking at Three Comprehensive High Schools — Dec 31, 1989

Documents work conducted during the first year of a two-year investigation of curriculum decisionmaking — particularly with respect to vocational education — in comprehensive high schools.

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