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Jones, Lawrence K. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1980
There has been very little discussion of the issues in developing an occupational card sort despite the growing interest in this technique. Discusses these issues as they arose in developing an occupational card-sort system, known as Occu-Sort, and describes how card-sort developers have resolved them. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Measurement Techniques, Occupational Clusters, Occupations
Peer reviewedWest, Carol A. – Journal of Career Planning and Employment, 1989
Describes technical writing as a career option, and delineates the most common technical writing positions in a large company: Technical Writer I and II, Senior Technical Writer, Copy Editors, Proofreaders, and Data Entry Operators. Entry requirements and potential for advancement are discussed. (TE)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Careers, Data Processing
Download full textBureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1975
For use by educational planners desiring to match occupational supply and demand data, this report contains conversion tables intended to provide a bridge between the system used to classify occupations in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National/State Industry-Occupation Matrix System and the system used by the Office of Education to classify…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Processing, Employment Statistics, Indexes
Henderson, John T. – 1970
Persons responsible for 2-year college occupational education should take positive steps to monitor data to measure and insure the development and successful operation of their programs. The purpose of this report is to provide better understanding of techniques involved in conducting surveys. Surveys can establish: student characteristics,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection
McKinlay, Donald Bruce – 1971
The need for more and better manpower information is hampered by the lack of adequate occupational data classification systems. The diversity of interests in occupations probably accounts for the absence of consensus regarding either the general outlines or the specific details of a standardized occupational classification system which would…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Data Collection, Data Processing
Durstine, Richard M. – 1966
This is a working paper which seeks to examine how information about approximately 900 occupations might be utilized and kept up to date. The discussion centers on a modular system for information treatment. The paper elaborates on: (1) how and what kinds of information will be put into the system; and (2) five different modes of operation for…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning, Computers
Summers, Edward G.; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
The article describes the production process and contents of a two-hour videotape illustrating microcomputer applications with severely physically disabled adults in a long-term residential hospital in British Columbia. Software, special adaptive technology, and a program to train physically disabled adults to work in the microcomputer industry…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction
