ACT has conducted over 20,000 job analyses for occupations across a diverse array of industries and occupations since 1993. This report highlights the levels of career readiness for various subgroups of ACT Work Keys® examinees in the United States and provides career readiness benchmarks for selected ACT WorkKeys cognitive skills by career…

Career clusters, career pathways, career majors, programs of study, plans of study--the list of terms being used these days to help describe the process for helping learners/students reach success in careers and postsecondary education seems endless. Lost in the dialogue of most conversations, however, is the discussion about the content of the…

The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…

The 15 occupational clusters (transportation, fine arts and humanities, communications and media, personal service occupations, construction, hospitality and recreation, health occupations, marine science occupations, consumer and homemaking-related occupations, agribusiness and natural resources, environment, public service, business and office…

The one-column article describes the center's purpose and provides an artist's drawing and floor plan. (AG)

Career clusters represent a nationwide effort to help learners obtain the knowledge and skills they need for career success, mobility and advancement by aligning what is taught in the classroom to business and industry expectations. In this article, the authors, education department officials from Nebraska, Virginia, and Alabama, outline the…

The bibliography lists the items in the career education collection housed at the Media Center of the Cayuga County BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). Three areas are emphasized in the collection: Grades K-6, Career Awareness; Grades 7-10, Career Orientation; Grades 11-12, Career Skills. The materials are listed under the 15 U. S.…

The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…

As maps relate geographic areas, job clusters chart the relationships occupations have to one another--a concept which is vital to career education. (Author)

The unit is presented in five steps: a pre-test is given; the clusters are introduced and defined; students tentatively select four clusters for exploration; students are placed in groups according to cluster choices; and class time is set aside for exploratory activities. (AG)

The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education and to suggest possible approaches for implementation in a school curriculum. Information about a wide range of available…

For career education instructors to help in the career choices of their students, it is necessary that a knowledge of occupational information related to different subject areas be acquired. By introducing occupational possibilities into the career education curriculum students can explore these possibilities and make worthwhile decisions. The…

The document provides occupational information intended for use in elementary schools and possibly junior high schools. It lists occupations typically identified as being part of the 15 U.S.O.E. occupational clusters. Occupations listed are those that are most common to the cluster, and, generally, those common to Iowa communities. Four levels of…

The handbook is a companion volume to "High School Career Interest and Information Survey" but its use extends to high school counselors, teachers, administrators and their students as an independent reference tool for occupational information. The manual is divided into sections corresponding to the fifteen career clusters identified by the U.S.…

Intended for teachers, counselors, and administrators, this booklet is designed to provide a brief description of the agribusiness and natural resources occupations cluster. Agribusiness is a blending of agriculture and business and is composed of two groups of occupations known as farm and nonfarm. Agribusiness and natural resources occupations…