Given the need for evaluation of career education, the author (1) suggests some components of a long-range plan for the improvement of career education evaluation, (2) outlines six parameters for long-range evaluation plans, and (3) highlights five critical implementation problems. (Author/BP)

More critical self examination and study is needed if career education is to have a desirable long-range impact upon American education. Greater effort shoudl be given to the theoretical framework of career education, the existing conceptual problems and issues, and the assessment of career education programs. (Author/BP)

The article provides a summary of the concept of career education; summarizes evaluative criteria now being proposed for career education, identifying those which seem most appropriate for the elementary school level; illustrates currently available results of such evaluations; and presents some needs for evaluation and research. (Author/AJ)

Presents an overview of common mistakes in 1975-76 career education program evaluation: reporting weaknesses, particularly problems of omission; content of questionnaires and interviews; student sampling errors; and problems in research design and in the programs themselves. Notes evaluation needs and suggests improved evaluation questions. (MF)

A model for the assessment of funded vocational and career education projects presents a methodology for collecting data on innovative processes and materials, selecting promising practices, compiling selected innovative practices in a handbook, and dissemination of promising practices. The authors include a flow chart for the selection…