The article provides a summary of the concept of career education; summarizes evaluative criteria now being proposed for career education, identifying those which seem most appropriate for the elementary school level; illustrates currently available results of such evaluations; and presents some needs for evaluation and research. (Author/AJ)

Presents an overview of common mistakes in 1975-76 career education program evaluation: reporting weaknesses, particularly problems of omission; content of questionnaires and interviews; student sampling errors; and problems in research design and in the programs themselves. Notes evaluation needs and suggests improved evaluation questions. (MF)

A model for the assessment of funded vocational and career education projects presents a methodology for collecting data on innovative processes and materials, selecting promising practices, compiling selected innovative practices in a handbook, and dissemination of promising practices. The authors include a flow chart for the selection…