The short-term effectiveness of career counseling is well supported in the literature. However, the long-term impact is often overlooked. This study quantitatively investigated the long-term stability of the positive effects gained through the career counseling process and qualitatively observed participants' levels of career project…

This study investigates the extent of career stability and the patterns of career change which have occurred in the lives of Project TALENT twelfth grade students in the 11 years elapsing since they were tested. (Author)

The Career Education Center of the Harlandale Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, has developed a K-12 series of career oriented curriculum guides (CE 001 005-16 and CE 001 075-84). This document outlines the proposed occupational followup study for students in grades 8-12 and for five years after leaving school. Personal data will be…

This followup study concerns a group of students who had attended occupational schools. (MM)

A test designed for board members and administrators to rate and to learn more about their guidance programs. (JF)

Student follow-up statistics must meet exacting federal standards; yet state educators and officials also wish to derive benefits from them. How should the model follow-up program be structured? Here is presented New Hampshire's solutions to this and other questions. (Author)

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the seventh in a series describing current, successful career education practices. This monograph presents a model for a placement and follow-up program, which involves the entire professional staff of a…

Examined impact of four different follow-up strategies (interviews, telephone, questionnaire, and secondary sources) used in a sequential order over a one-year period with psychiatrically disabled persons (N=142) living in the community. Contact rates tripled when multiple follow-up methods were used in addition to the single method of telephone…

The relationship between academic achievement and occupational success was tested with a sample of bachelor degree-level engineering graduates who had postcollege working experience. The findings suggest that intellectual accomplishment, as reflected by grades, may be a worthy goal to be valued in its own right, but it should not be used to…

A follow-up study of public vocational school graduates revealed that the graduates successfully obtained jobs. Among the factors deemed important by both graduates and employer, communication skills were mentioned as vital. Counseling and preparation in getting along with others were perceived by graduates as inferior. Adjustment to an 8 hour…

Results supported other researchers' findings that the Engineer scale on the SVIB is no longer an adequate measure of engineers' interests. (Author)

Marketing and business education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stout (UW-Stout) recently conducted a longitudinal study, spanning the entire 35 years of the program's existence, describing and analyzing its graduates' career paths. Data was collected through a questionnaire that utilized a combination of Likert-type responses, open-ended…

This report presents data obtained from Project Talent (a longitudinal study designed to achieve a better understanding of the career plans and career development of young adults). In 1960 400,000 students in grades nine through twelve were administered a battery of specially constructed tests and inventories which collected data about their…

As part of a follow-up study of vocational school students, the relationship between training and occupational placement was assessed using the coding scheme from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. (Author)