This brief guide describes the Career Planning Support System (CPSS), a career guidance management system designed to be integrated into a high school's operations and also designed for district or state application. The guide covers the following aspects of CPSS: (1) the CPSS perspective and five skill categories (self-awareness, social…

This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is the first in a series on developing a comprehensive career guidance program at the high school level, designed to aid guidance…

Presents a model for an eleventh grade student/parent joint guidance program for college selection. Topics which are included in the program are transcripts, courses, college majors, financial costs and assistance, and informational materials. (BL)

In this brief overview of placement services for a comprehensive school, the following topics are discussed: (1) the history of job placement; (2) the need for job placement services (accountability); (3) general objectives of placement services; (4) format for establishing a school placement service; (5) school-business-industry cooperation; (6)…

This handbook for the advisory committee for the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) is one of twelve documents describing CPSS and its use. (CPSS is a comprehensive guidance program management system designed to provide information for local high schools to design, implement, and evaluate an upgraded career guidance program. CPSS describes how…

The publication presents guidelines to assist secondary schools in developing and implementing a job placement service within an existing guidance program. The need for and the goals of a school placement program are given. Areas to be considered in developing a program according to one of three organizational patterns (decentralized, centralized,…

The Career Decision-Making Program (CDM) for secondary school students consists of approximately fifty individual products which can be used as a semester course, a six-to-eight-week exploratory course, independent units, or outside of the CDM program in other career guidance activities. The CDM program has two components: (1) the Exploring Career…

A study was conducted to identify placement and followup practices common to successful programs, and to strengthen those aspects of pre- and/or inservice training which prepare local counseling and guidance personnel to function more effectively in implementing local placement and followup efforts. A total of 3,218 schools from 26 states were…

This digest discusses the scope of practice of the secondary school counselor in today's school, citing Norman Gysbers' Comprehensive Guidance Program Model as an approach to developmental counseling which empowers counselors to define their own scope of practice, and thereby effectively address the needs of their students. (TE)

This document contains an overview of the Research for Better Schools (RBS) model for experience-based career education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 447.) Divided into eight sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…

This document contains an overview of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 447 and CE 018 449.) Divided into thirteen sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes…

Guidance and vocational education personnel have continued to play key roles in responding to individual and societal needs that have arisen as a result of the occupational, social, and economic changes occurring over the last 80 years. Guidance programs serve as the link between providing occupational training and employment readiness for the…

This document contains an overview of the Far West Laboratory (FWL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 449.) Divided into seven sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…

One of a set of twelve documents describing the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) and its use, this guide is designed to help the CPSS coordinator become familiar with CPSS and his or her role. (The Career Planning Support System is a comprehensive guidance program management system which (1) provides techniques to improve a high school's…

The purpose of this project was to develop and disseminate a conceptual model for comprehensive secondary school (7-12) career guidance programs. The model consisted of transportable packages intended to provide a framework for the delivery of career guidance strategies designed to facilitate the achievement of desired student outcomes. Initially,…