The mission of Minding Our Business (MOB), a service-learning course started in 1997 to meet community needs, is to advance the personal and vocational development of urban youth through entrepreneurship education and mentoring. This paper evaluates the long-term impact of MOB on the personal and vocational development of the alumni mentors…

Periodic follow-up evaluative studies are conducted on basic and advanced teacher education graduates of Bowling Green State University (Ohio). These studies are made to elicit input from graduates regarding the programs they recently completed, and to evaluate their success in the educational careers for which they were prepared. Data is also…

Covering the time period of October 1972 to May 1974, the final report documents the efforts of a career education project in the Ogden City School District. In the elementary grades the program stressed the importance of work and workers and introduced some very basic careers. On the junior and senior high school levels, a career guidance and…

The Louisiana Model Career Options Program (MCOP) is intended to encourage eligible, experienced teachers to explore new avenues in education and gain additional pay while remaining in the classroom. This evaluation provides information to decision makers at the state and local levels to assist them in making judgments about the extent to which…

The goal of the Conecuh County (Alabama) project was to successfully implement an experience-based career education (EBCE) program based on the model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, whcih integrates academic requirements and work experience opportunities into a comprehensive curriculum. To determine program effectiveness of…

The Skyline Career Development Center was conceived as an opportunity for upper secondary students in the Dallas school district to accomplish educational goals beyond the conventional curriculum, especially in the area of career education. A flexible curriculum was developed to offer courses not available elsewhere and to enable students to…

The Comprehensive Vocational Education Program for Career Development (K-14) in Pinellas County was implemented in nine pilot schools in which the project's goals were designed to bring together already operating components of career education in the county. A concerted effort was made to identify and integrate effective elements of other programs…

A third-party evaluation was conducted of the first year of an experience-based career education project (EBCE) in Rhode Island. Three sources of evaluation information were used: evaluator observations, the Community Resource Questionnaire, and the Student Skills and Attitude Inventory. Because the actual project implementation was for just one…

The goal of the Conecuh County (Alabama) project was to successfully implement into its curriculum an Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program based on the model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, which integrates academic requirements and work experience opportunities into a comprehensive curriculum. To determine…

The goal of the Conecuh County (Alabama) project was to successfully implement an Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program based on the model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, which integrates academic requirements and work experience opportunities into a comprehensive curriculum. To determine program effectiveness at…

The consulting report indicates the extent of career motivation among current enrollees in selected off-campus military officer training programs in 1973. The programs studied are the Navy Reserve Officers Candidate (ROC) program, Aviation Reserve Officers Candidate (AVROC) program, and the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class (PLC) program. The…

During the 1977-78 school year, students from four Utah high schools participated in the evaluation of an experience-based career education (EBCE) project. The 228 students (115 girls and 113 boys) enrolled in EBCE were designated the experimental group and a randomly selected English class from each high school was treated as the control group.…

The Rhode Island Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) project served high school juniors and seniors in seven communities by offering career exploration activities, career counseling, and academic instruction. (The academic component was not implemented in all participating schools.) The project sought to increase the career maturity, career…

Included in this final report of the K-14 three-year Penasco, New Mexico, career education project are presentation of the project's goals and objectives, description of general design and implementation procedures, lists of results and accomplishments, the third-party evaluation report, and conclusions and recommendations. General objectives…

The comprehensive vocational guidance program in Rockford, Illinois, included a career awareness curriculum at the elementary level, personality and interest exploration for the middle schools, and utilization of a career planning data retrieval system at the high school level. The third party evaluation utilized information from eight population…