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Student-Directed Transition Planning: Increasing Student Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in the Transition Planning Process
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Woods, Lee L.; Sylvester, Lorraine; Martin, James E. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of a new school to adult life transition planning lesson package titled "Student-Directed Transition Planning". The "Student-Directed Transition Planning" lessons teach transition terms and concepts to provide a means to increase self-determination skills and student participation in…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Individualized Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Student Participation
Effects of a 21st-Century Curriculum on Students' Information Technology and Transition Skills
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Izzo, Margo Vreeburg; Yurick, Amanda; Nagaraja, Haikady N.; Novak, Jeanne A. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
A pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of EnvisionIT, a 10-unit web-based curriculum designed to teach secondary students information technology (IT) skills in the context of transition-planning activities. Fifteen high schools were stratified by socioeconomic status and randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Information Technology, Instructional Effectiveness, Conventional Instruction
Systems in Transition: Are We There Yet?
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Guy, Barbara; Schriner, Kay – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1997
Describes results of a multi-year effort by the National Transition Network to evaluate the State Systems Change Initiative. Among findings were that states were successful in increasing stakeholder awareness of transition issues, increasing the participation of students with disabilities and their parents, and enhancing collaborative…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Involving Culturally Diverse Parents in Transition Planning.
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Boone, Rosalie S. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1992
The implementation of a parent training session with 15 culturally diverse parents in Hawaii preceding a parent-professional conference on transition planning for high school students with disabilities resulted in increased knowledge about transition by participating parents but no significant differences in transition meeting participation…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship