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Peer reviewedCheney-Stern, Marilyn R. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1983
Recent work in the field of vocational education indicates that pooled data may be useful in (1) making decisions about the content of vocational education programs at orientation, exploratory, and preparatory levels, (2) evaluating the effects of vocational education on vocational maturity, and (3) teaching about career and curriculum…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills, Program Effectiveness
Download full textKriley, Pat – 1999
An adult educator in Butler, Pennsylvania, noticed that, although students who took the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) seemed highly motivated to improve their basic skills in mathematics and spatial relations, only 2 of her 20 students who took the GATB made a concerted effort to develop their vocabulary. Thinking that those two students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Learning
Borow, Henry; Hendrix, Vernon L. – 1974
This is the final report of a project initiated in September 1965 to: (1) determine and measure the environmental factors and the social-psychological characteristics of students which are related to the success or failure of occupational programs; and (2) to identify a variety of typical educational career patterns and to isolate teams of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Educational Objectives, Environmental Influences
