Purpose: The purpose of this comparative research study was to determine the perceptions of career counselors and principals on the types of career decision-making difficulties experienced by high school students and the extent to which a large-scale high school technology-based career development program addresses these difficulties, using the…

Why Pontiac was chosen to develop one of six USOE career education models and what the experience has meant to the school district and community. (Editor)

A K-12 program in Florida links academic subjects and the world of work in a practical demonstration of career education'' in action. (Editor)

The four elements of career development programs, occupational awareness, preliminary occupational skills, career planning, and intensive employment preparation, are discussed. (JS)

Describes an experimental junior high school course which explains the economic and human aspects of employment. The program is published and distributed by the Joint Council on Economic Education, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036. (BH)

The 19-page report describes the goals, objectives, activities, accomplishments, recommendations, and conclusions of a two-year project to establish a junior high school career education program. The project was designed to: (1) provide career exploratory experiences through integration of career education into all subjects and visitation of area…

The Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) is a systematic effort to design and implement a new educational strategy that will ensure that students will be prepared either for immediate employment or continuing education upon leaving school. The CCEM seeks to restructure curriculum at all grade levels in terms of knowledge of career and human…

The Center for Vocational and Technical Education at Ohio State University is working on a major modification of the current education system, concentrating on the way in which youth move from school to work. Known as the school-based Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM), the project involves the engineering, testing, and installation in…

This publication contains papers presented during two 3-day conferences for 71 deans of Colleges of Education and 134 professors of educational administration, both of which focused on orienting selected educational leadership personnel to the implications of preparing educational personnel with a career education program focus. Presentations…

Applies developmental-contextual approach to analysis of changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union and how they may affect individual career development. Presents framework for understanding emerging conceptions of career, describes career development in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and considers adolescent and adult career…

Covering the time period from July 1973 to July 1974, the report documents the first year of a project to implement career education in the Highline High School in Seattle. A career alternatives model (CAM) to provide each student with opportunities to consider all alternatives is described as a means for student development in self awareness,…

The third party evaluation report focuses on the second year activities of a three-year exemplary project in career education conducted by the North Central Technical Institute (NCTI). The project was designed to provide career education activities to the adult population of an economically depressed rural area in north-central Wisconsin. Job…

The career education development project presented in the report covers the period from July 1, 1972 through June 30, 1975, with approximately seven percent of the combined school populations of Muskegon and Muskegon Heights, Michigan, participating. The stratified, selected sample was comprised of one experimental group of 202 "target…

Most exemplary projects initiated under Part D of the 1968 Vocational Education Amendments were early attempts to structure operating models of what is now referred to as career education. In response to an invitation to interested school districts and organizations to submit proposals for conducting research-based vocational exemplary projects,…

Presenting a description of career education activities in the state of South Carolina, the document contains several separate reports which are organized into four major sections. Section 1 contains summary accounts of the administrative and technical activities accomplished by the South Carolina Department of Education Career Education Office,…