This paper explores enabling conditions for scaling high-quality project-based learning (PBL) to understand factors that influence how PBL spreads, whether and how it can be sustained and the extent to which it informs meaningful change in schools. We report on a year-long collaboration across three research projects. Each project team analyzed…

This paper is concerned with the relationship of three areas: sex roles, values, and career decision making. The first section is a background statement, briefly reviewing relevant literature to document values in relation to career decision making. The second section examines definitions of values and how values are related to sex roles, both…

Survey of 2,144 junior and senior secondary school students examining who influenced decisions about education and career. Results demonstrate influence of various sources differs by age and sex of students. Suggestions made for counselors to make more effective use of their time and energy. (Author)

This study described the development of occupational decision processes over the high school years. The key processes in occupational decision development for both sexes appeared to be an information search strategy and an elaborate rationale. Both processes increased in complexity and contributed to confident feelings about occupational choices…

This study sought to determine the attitudes of guidance counselors toward the entrance of women into the profession of medicine. In order to answer this broad question two research methods were employed. The counselors were given a paired comparisons task, i.e., they were asked to make 66 choices among 12 high school students to determine who…

Choosing a course of study for their fourth and fifth years of secondary education is a major decision facing pupils at 13 years of age (and over), and is one which may have far-reaching consequences. Helping students at this time presents schools with a major challenge, and the importance of educational and vocational guidance is becoming…

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that if parents are given information about their child, his interests, skills, and competencies, information about the world of work, and practice in simulated career decision making, they will transmit this training to their child. Twenty parents of 10th and 11th grade students were asked to volunteer…

Utilizing a method of explicit comparison between students' measured characteristics and the measured characteristics of occupational norm groups, the results of this study showed students in the groups receiving feedback increased in the appropriateness of the occupational level of their first occupational choice. A delayed posttest indicated…

A new treatment, the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit (VEIK), was developed to increase the number and variety of vocational options a person considers, to increase the variety of information-seeking activity, and to increase the satisfaction a person has with his or her current vocational aspiration. The VEIK is a 15-step self-administered…

The effectiveness of short-term counseling on Career Maturity of tenth-grade students as measured by the Career Maturity Inventory was studied. Results indicate that career maturity as a developmental process can be measured and facilitated through counseling. (Author)

Previous studies by the Manitoba Post-Secondary Research Reference Committee have indicated a substantial group of high school students who, although they had indicated a 40% or greater chance of going on to post-secondary education the next fall, did not enroll. This group, although academically qualified, had experienced circumstances which…

The National Institute of Education supported a program of basic research studies dealing with career decision-making processes among high school and college students and the career experiences of youthful workers from 1976 through 1979. The 11 studies funded under this grants competition are diverse. Some examine the experiences of secondary…