Contributions from job-cluster research include greater understanding of the desired end-product of vocational education, potential for curriculum development, and better understanding of job analysis. Presentations by specialists who are presently active in research on the problems of job-clustering include: (1) "A Functional Approach to…

Presents the results of a survey of Mississippi Valley Industrial Teacher Education Conference members to determine their use of clusters as the organizer for their industrial arts teacher education curricula. Appendixes contain the survey instrument and titles of clusters and bases reported by schools. (Editor/TA)

This paper is a discussion of a 4-year research and development project dealing with the cluster concept approach to vocational education. The concept is a form of vocational education that prepares the individual to enter into gainful employment in a number of occupations which have sufficient commonalities in human requirements and kinds of work…