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Sibel Somyürek; Nevcan Aksoy – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Selecting the right academic major significantly shapes an individual's future career path, making it a longstanding focus of research. The shift to online platforms, accelerated by the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, has transformed counseling and guidance systems. Consequently, developing robust online support systems has become…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Decision Making, Universities, Selection
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Penny Quinn – Assessment Update, 2025
The purpose of an academic advisory board is to provide feedback and recommendations to college representatives for an identified academic program or grouping of programs. It is a mechanism through which academic program representatives, typically faculty and program coordinators and/or department chairs, maintain consistent connection with…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Faculty, Coordinators, Cooperative Programs
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McGrath, Dianne; Murphy, Daniel – Accounting Education, 2016
This paper reports on a project which is designed to increase the participation of high school students in accounting work experience placements. The focus of the paper is on an Australian-based project which overcomes the identified barriers to offering high school accounting work experience placements with a resultant increase in the number and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Accounting, Career Choice
Gore, Paul A., Jr., Ed.; Carter, Louisa P., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2011
Offering a primer on action research methodologies and examples of practice, "Students in Transition: Research and Practice in Career Development" responds to a dual challenge facing career development educators--designing cutting-edge career development interventions and demonstrating their effectiveness. Overviews of quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Program Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Apprenticeships
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Newlon, Betty J.; And Others – Journal of Career Development, 1985
Describes an evaluation of a summer career awareness workshop program for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation found that three-fourths of the 96 participants reported that as a result of the three-day workshop, they were closer to making a career decision. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Highline Public Schools, Seattle, WA. – 1978
To demonstrate that instructional strategies developed by the National Institute of Education (NIE) Experience-Based Career Education models can be adopted/adapted by a community-based program which is offered within a traditional high school's elective program, the Highline school district implemented a community-based career education (CBCE)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Planning
Maley, Donald – 1975
The cluster concept in vocational education addresses itself to issues of: job-entry preparation; geographic and occupational mobility; optimum employability for young adults; the processes by which occupational or career decisions are made; worker adaptability in a rapidly changing labor market; and the effects of continuous education on career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Career Information System. – 1975
This report describes how the Oregon Career Information System (CIS) expanded its career information files by adding three new files relevant to education information. Descriptions are given of the Preparation file, containing information specifying various ways to prepare for a particular occupation; the Program file, which describes a complete…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Databases, Educational Programs
Lapine, Louise; Moore, Sandra Smith – 1976
Developed during an evaluation of the Alverno College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Off Campus Experiential Learning (OCEL) program, this manual provides suggestions for (1) designing experiential learning programs integrating academic and off-campus work experiences for postsecondary women students and evaluating existing experiential learning…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Career Choice, Careers
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
In response to the need of military leaders to be better prepared to plan, support, and conduct joint (multi-service and multi-national) operations, Congress enacted the Goldwater- Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Positive steps were taken to implement provisions in the Act that address the education, assignment, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 2000
This document is intended to serve as a resource for the implementation of Wisconsin's Cooperative Education Skill Standards Certificate Program. Following an introduction there is an overview of the program, school district eligibility requirements, local partner responsibilities, and factors that may present barriers to program implementation. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Rating, Administrator Guides