Hello, Kaye and others,

I'm now catching up on emails and found the exchange below regarding evaluations of NWLP programs.  A few comments:

-- Yes, the ERIC Clearinghouse at Ohio State University (mentioned by David Rosen and Jim Parker) has/had an archive of the evaluations of the NWLP programs.  This archive was reviewed by a national panel of experts to identify some particularly useful evaluation reports.  I'm not sure whether this valuable material is still accessible. 

-- The "Voices from the Field" report is a good summary of a two-day meeting of NWLP project representatives.  Participants had a chance to identify recommendations for improving the NWLP projects.  This discussion led to some changes in NWLP policy. (Laura Sperazi and I were the authors of that report.) 
 
-- When NIFL was first launched, the Institute funded Laura Sperazi and me to do a series of documents on workplace education evaluation. These included (a) a series of case studies of  workplace education programs which used a "team"  approach to evaluate program activities (a multistakeholder team planned and carried out an evaluation of program activities); (b) a handbook on the team evaluation methodology which we developed, and (c) a literature review about approaches and issues related to workplace education evaluation.   

Given the continued importance of educating the U.S. workforce, it would be great if policy makers and practitioners take the time to learn from past experience as they consider how to build effective workforce learning systems in the U.S. 

Paul Jurmo, Ed.D.
Dean, Economic Development and Continuing Education  
Union County College
New Jersey

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-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Kaye Beall
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 10:37 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: [Workplace 1569] Re: Evaluations of National Workplace LiteracyProgramprojects
 
Here's a direct link to the proceedings of a meeting of project staff from
the National Workplace Literacy Program in the early 1990's. The
publication is: Workplace Education: Voices from the Field. Proceedings,
National Workplace Literacy Program Project Directors Conference
(Washington, D.C., September 1991).
The URL is
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/
80/13/03/13.pdf
As one of the early grantees, I must say we learned a lot, but workplace
education has evolved from those early efforts.
Hope this helps,
Kaye
********
Kaye Beall
Project Director
World Education
6760 West Street
Linn Grove, IN 46711
765-717-3942
kaye_beall at worlded.org
www.worlded.org
 


-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of David J. Rosen
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:04 AM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1564] Evaluations of National Workplace Literacy
Programprojects

Beatriz and others,

Sarah Newcomb, at OVAE, suggests that the best source of information on
those projects is at the local level, and that you may want to explore
some of the resources at

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+evaluation+of+national+workplace 
+literacy+program&btnG=Search

(i.e. do a web search using "evaluation of national workplace literacy
program")

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net



On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Diaz, Beatriz B. wrote:


> Was this email answered?  I would also like to see these documents if 

> they are still available.

> Thanks.

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> Subject: [Workplace 1555] Re: VESL

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>

> A lot of materials were created  with funds from OVAE in the 

> Department of Education in the 90's. I believe Sarah Newcombe was the 

> program monitor. Does anyone know what happened to those documents? 

> Many of them were very specific to certain industries.

> Is there an archive anywhere???

>

> Diane Pecoraro

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