Virginia's SHARP logger program is a Cooperative Extension program currently providing training to over 1,500 loggers, foresters, and others. We conducted a mail survey of SHARP loggers to characterize program participants, assess programming needs, and evaluate program effectiveness. Results indicate a diverse group of participants in terms of…

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 Kentucky health cluster program serves in filling paramedical vacancies and in training inner city persons for productive employment. The article, authored by the organizer of the program, describes the program and its participants and evaluates its success. (AG)

Article discussed what the cluster framework in career education is and how it is affecting changes in curriculum patterns and instructional products. (Author/RK)

Examined the literature dealing with the relation of occupation to suicide for three occupational categories: health care providers, managerial and professional persons, and military and paramilitary personnel. Presents evidence relating to group differences in suicidal behavior. Considers theories explaining variations in incidence of suicide.…

The author describes the major features and background related to implementing a career education program within an established educational program, which were involved in the establishment of a national demonstration site at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Center Project at Cumberland School District No. 77, Toledo, Illinois.…

A three-part evaluation plan is presented for the occupational clusters approach to career orientation project, which attempted to design and field-test a two-semester curriculum package for orienting junior high students to the world of work. Project effectiveness will be estimated at three points in its development. In the laboratory setting…

Three elementary schools in districts of the Seattle, Washington area were the target of project EVA (Early Vocational Awareness) which developed career awareness resource materials. The document consists of two major components: sample instructional materials (40 pages) and information about the project (60 pages). The 14 multi-use resource…

Through Project VIGOR, the David Douglas Public School System in Portland, Oregon addressed itself to the objective of changing a conventional academically oriented general education system into one whose curriculum reflected the needs of all students from the primary through the secondary grades and including post-high school contact and…

This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

With the aim of developing a better basis for industrial education curricula as part of career education, 12 cluster plans found in the recent literature are described in the first half of the document. Each description indicates target population, grade level, and the career clusters included, to suggest the plan's comprehensiveness and its…

The actual operation of vocational evaluation programs appears to be guided by orientations toward process and content. Two dominant process orientations, information gathering and information processing, can be identified, as can three content orientations: individual characteristics, specific jobs, and occupational clusters. The process and…

The goal of this project was to develop and implement a program of career education in a pilot cluster of schools in Cobb County, Georgia. The approach fused aspects of vocational education, guidance, and a broad-based curriculum into a systematic and sequential effort within the elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Such an effort was…

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the second year of the Exemplary Comprehensive Occupational Orientation and Vocational Program in the Tulsa, Oklahoma Public Schools. Data were obtained through a variety of student tests, teacher quarterly reports, interviews with administrators, and questionnaire responses. Findings…

The purpose of the study was to develop a model for evaluation of the distributive education program in Arizona. The project involved the design of survey instruments, the collection and analysis of data, and recommendations for program modification based on the findings. Surveys were made of students, teacher-coordinators, national leaders, and…