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de Cos, Patricia L.; Mulcahy, Nicolina; Chan, Julie – California Research Bureau, 2009
The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Education Work Relationship, Career Education, Career Exploration
American Inst. for Foreign Study, Greenwich, CT. – 1988
The objective of this study was to provide information about the impact of study abroad on people who had completed the American Institute for Foreign Study's Overseas Learning Program between 1983-1988. The American Institute for Foreign Study contacted 7,500 participants of high school or college educational travel and study abroad during this…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Admission, Higher Education, Research Projects
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. Program Implementation and Review Branch. – 1988
An Ontario (Canada) provincial review of geography instruction was undertaken to: (1) determine student achievement levels and program effectiveness; (2) identify implementation strategies for a compulsory course, entitled "Canadian Studies Geography"; and (3) pilot test a new review model designed to analyze intended, implemented, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
Ott, Mary Diederich – 1978
Factors associated with fostering and overcoming sex-role stereotyping in secondary level occupational education in New York State were identified during the first of a two-phase project. The first phase, a pilot study, focused on the program area of Trade, Industrial, and Service Education. (Phase II will involve an expanded analysis of factors…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends, Parent Attitudes
Samet, Carolyn; Wright, Jerauld B. – 1978
A study was conducted to (1) review state board of education procedures used in assuring that local advisory councils (LACs) are being used in preparing local plans; (2) develop a profile of LACs created to advise on 1978 plans; and (3) discover how LACs regard their role in local plan development for North Carolina vocational education in local…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Age, Community Colleges, Federal Regulation