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Useful Sites from Other Organizations

Please note: The links on this page point to information maintained by non-NCRVE organizations; the information is not controlled or formally endorsed by NCRVE. (However, the existence of a link indicates that someone at NCRVE thinks the information is useful!)

Please also see the NCRVE pages devoted to K-12 sites and Skill Standards, and the NET Gain archive.

This page is (permanently) under construction. If you know of a useful voc ed-related information source, please send the details to David Carlson at NCRVE (dcarlson@uclink.berkeley.edu)

Governmental and Government-Supported Sites

United States (National)

ERIC Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Clearinghouse
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership's Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education (an ERIC adjunct clearinghouse)
U.S. Department of Education's School-to-Work Internet Gateway
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
National Center for Education Statistics' Vocational Education in the United States: The Early 1990s
U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration
U.S. Department of Labor's "America's Career Kit"
- Job Bank | Talent Bank | Career InfoNet | Learning eXchange
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC)
National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI)
National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) home page
New American High Schools project (NCRVE/OVAE 1996-97)
New Urban High School Network (Big Picture Company [Cambridge, MA] and the US Office of Adult and Vocational Education [OVAE])
Tech Connections
A national dissemination project to improve the utilization of existing and emerging technology in state vocational rehabilitation programs. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

United States (State and Regional)

State Departments of Vocational Education (In Progress)

California Academic and Vocational Information eXchange (CAVIX)
California Partnership Academies
Mississippi State University's Research and Curriculum Unit
Multistate Academic and Vocational Curriculum Consortium (MAVCC)
National Association of State Directors of Vocational Technical Education Consortium
New York State Education Department's Workforce Preparation and Continuing Education
Ohio School-to-Work / Workforce Development Clearinghouse
Omaha Public Schools' Careers and Technology page
Pittsburgh Job Corps
Southern Regional Education Board
TECH-web (formerly the Workforce Education Clearinghouse), Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Texas Education Agency's Career and Technology Education Division
University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Practical Arts and Vocational-Technical Education
Virginia Vocational Curriculum and Resource Center
Vocational Education and Industry Training Program, University of Central Florida (Orlando)
Washington's Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board

See also: The NET Gain from the April 1998 issue of AVA's Techniques magazine, on the topic of Vocational Curriculum Centers

Canada

UNEVOC Canada - Canadian center for UNESCO's international project in technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
British Columbia Ministry of Education Skills and Training

Australia

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
Australian Training Information Network from the NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training
The Vocational Education and Training Directory from Education Network Australia (EdNA)
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
- VOCED Database (nearly 11,000 entries)
Open Training and Education Network (OTEN) from TAFE NSW
Student to Industry Program from the Joint Industry Training Council
Vocational Education Coordinators Online (VECO)

Europe

German Institute for International Educational Research
European Commission Socrates' LifeQual project (Effective Processes of Qualifications for Lifelong Learning)
QUASAR Project--Development of Quality Standards for Total Quality Management Systems in the Field of Continuing Vocational Training for Women (Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Denmark)
Scottish Qualifications Authority
Spain's Proyecto de Renovación de los Contenidos de Formación Profesional
UNESCO's International Project on Technical and Vocational Education (UNEVOC)
Northern Europe VocWeb

See also: The NET Gain from the May 1997 issue of AVA's Techniques magazine, on the topic of International Web Sites

Research and Development

Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD)
Center for Research on Education and Work (University of California, Berkeley)
Center on Education and Work (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), Universities of Oxford and Warwick and the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Institute on Education and the Economy (Teachers College, Columbia University)
MPR Associates (Berkeley, California)
RAND Education (RAND, Santa Monica)
Journals

See also: The NET Gain from the February 1998 issue of AVA's Techniques magazine, on the topic of Research Centers

Vocational Organizations

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
Association for Career and Technical Education (formerly the American Vocational Association)
American Vocational Education Research Association (AVERA)
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA)
Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER)
Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)
Future Homemakers of America (FHA/HERO)
Institue for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS)
International Technology Education Association (ITEA)
National Alliance of Business (NAB)
National Association of Vocational Education Special Needs Personnel (NAVESNP)
National Career Development Association (NCDA)
National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE)
National Employment Counseling Association (NECA)
National FFA
National 4-H Council
- National Center for Workforce Preparation
National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE)
University Council for Workforce & Human Resource Education (formerly the University Council for Vocational Education)
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA)

Topical Sites

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF)
Career Academy Support Network (University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education)
ERIC/ACVE's digest: Adult, Career, and Vocational Education: An Internet Guide
National Center for Construction Education and Research
National Governors' Association information on Workforce Development and Education Reform
Vocational Education Resources (Steven Sorg, University of Central Florida)
Adult/Vocational/Technology Education Links (Joe Scarcella, California State University San Bernardino)
Advanced Technology Centers
- National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers
- Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center, Tempe, Arizona
Special Needs
- NET Gain on career education for special needs students
- The Council for Learning Disabilities' page of links
- Autism-PDD Resources Network's Disabilities State by State Guide
- NCRVE's Office of Student Services (funding ended December 1997)

Institutional Directories

RWM's Listing of Private Postsecondary Vocational Schools
Australian Correspondence Schools

Web Directories

Direct Hit's top ten hits for Vocational Education
About.com's VoTech page
Yahoo's Education : Career and Vocational page

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