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Direct linkReyes, Urlette – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an experiential program on the occupational identity, access, and career maturity of Black and Latino students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Data shows these students to be underrepresented in STEM fields. Student interest and access are noted in the literature to be amongst the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Magnet Schools, Work Experience Programs, Vocational Maturity
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Wesley I.; Dykeman, Bruce F. – Education, 1979
Using a randomized two group pre-test/post-test research design, the study found that (1) significant results occurred on those variables measuring levels of vocational maturity, days of school attendance, and numbers of disciplinary referrals and (2) non-significant results occurred on those variables measuring proportions of students dropping…
Descriptors: Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Potential Dropouts, Program Effectiveness
Rhode Island Univ., Kingston. Curriculum Research and Development Center. – 1979
The third year (1978-79) evaluation of a Rhode Island Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) project assessed overall operations and attainment of stated goals and objectives. The project served sophomores, juniors, and seniors in local high schools and one vocational technical facility in seven communities. Accomplishments were evidenced…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Education, Employer Attitudes, Enrollment
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1979
An Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) exemplary project was conducted for three years in four high schools in Greenville County, South Carolina, and then evaluated for this final program report. Guidance and community components made up the program's major strengths. A third component (academic) proved nonessential. The guidance component…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Belkin, Allen; Dries, Cindy – 1978
The goals of the Oswego County (New York) Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP) was to improve job-readiness posture and self-concept of unemployed youth and in-school youth. Two types of classroom training supported the major learning activity, which was work experience. These activities…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textLeach, James A. – 1978
The Occupational Survival Skills (OSS) Modules were designed to offer high school students an opportunity to develop skills applicable to a wide range of jobs in the work world and to develop positive attitudes, perceptions, and motivations toward work. The primary purpose of this study was to describe and interpret the influence of the OSS…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation
Monkowski, Paul G. – 1979
An evaluation of the final year of the Lincoln, Nebraska, public schools experience-based career education (EBCE) program focused on three major components: student outcomes, parent evaluation, and community sites. The Career Maturity Inventory (CMI), the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR), and a locally developed survey…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Attitudes
Edwards, Judith B.; Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1977
Fifty-eight Iowa high school seniors participated in an experience based career education (EBCE) project conducted at Storm Lake, Sac City, and Pocahontas during 1976-77. The program followed the EBCE model developed by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory. Technical assistance and training for the project was furnished by that laboratory. A…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
Shapiro, Jonathan Z.; And Others – 1986
A study examined the effectiveness of the Louisiana State Youth Opportunities Unlimited (LSYOU) program. (LSYOU is an intensive 8-week residential dropout prevention program held at Louisiana State University that provided work experience, academic training, counseling, supportive services, recreation, health care, team support, and training in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1979
A project is reported and evaluated which provided experience-based career education opportunities for grades 9 and 10 in Minot, North Dakota, through Career Education PLUS (Planning, Learning, Understanding, Succeeding), an alternative education program. Focus of the evaluation is on the project objectives: to provide students with (1) training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
