The Guidance Information System (GIS) is a statewide computer-based career information system developed by the Maine Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (MOICC). A time-series design was utilized to investigate the impact of GIS on selected users in public schools and agencies. Participants completed questionnaires immediately after…

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) established a committee to study the applicability of SIGI's (System of Interactive Guidance and Information) occupational data base to NTID's curriculum research and career counseling needs. (SIGI is an Educational Testing Service--ETS--system which applies computer technology to assist hearing…

This report describes the Orleans Parish Allied Health Profession Counseling Program, a three-year project developed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing health career information in a structured classroom setting. The materials for this program, which was designed specifically to provide high school students with detailed information…

The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of a cooperative arrangement between the New York State Education Department and the New York State Employment Service, undertaken to produce and disseminate up-to-date information about local entry occupations for use in the career guidance of students. In a sampling of high schools and…

As early as July 1974, the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI), a computer-based aid to career decision making, had been identified for possible use at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). A task force that intensively studied SIGI and its potential for use within NTID recommended that it be brought to NTID. For…

To assess the effectiveness of a 3-month inservice program in vocational education for high school counselors, data were gathered from 60 non-college bound students (experimental group) whose counselors participated in the 3-month program and 60 non-college bound students (Control group) whose counselors did not participate in the program. Pre-…

The Occupational Information Access System (OIAS) improves the accessibility of occupational labor market information for career planning. Its operation at Churchill High School is evaluated from several angels: the likes and dislikes of users; the effect of OIAS on users' knowledge of occupational information and on their career plans; why other…

A statewide evaluation of the Wisconsin Instant Information System for Students and Counselors (WISC) was conducted by surveying a stratified random sample of the user populations including students, counselors, and teachers. Each of the three user groups in the 103 high schools involved in the survey was given a questionnaire which focused on the…

An evaluation determined the outcome and impact of the project "A Career Education Program for the Gifted and Talented in Rural Colorado" conducted by the South Central BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) during 1979-80 in Pueblo, Colorado. (A project report is available separately--see Note.) Two evaluation instruments were…

This report summarizes the activities accomplished during fiscal year 1972 by an exemplary career development project serving 2,424 elementary and secondary students, 108 teachers, and 180 parents. The activities are listed and described according to whether they were primarily project, elementary, middle, or secondary school activities. Some of…

Participants in CHOICES, a computerized career information program, were 40 female and 9 male freshmen psychology students at the University of Missouri at Columbia. After 4 weeks of program work, a questionnaire to assess a broad range of career-related concerns was administered to the participants and to a quasi-control group of 19 female and 7…

This monograph reports a study by the Education Improvement Program of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to investigate the relative effectiveness of several delivery systems for occupational information to minority students. Part 1 overviews the need to facilitate vocational guidance and career development of minority students and…

To determine the effects of planned career development activities on middle school children, 135 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from predominantly black middle class families were divided into two groups (experimental and control) and pre-tested using the attitude scale and competency subtests (problem solving, planning, occupational…

The University of Alabama Career Development Program was designed as a comprehensive, university-wide effort to enhance career development of students and faculty. The operational plan included four systems: (1) Academic mainstream system, designed to assist in the development of separate programs within the colleges and departments, (2) support…