A study was conducted to analyze the cognitive and affective effects of hard sell and soft sell career education programs. (The infusion of career education into the traditional content areas is termed as soft sell while the hard sell approach establishes career education as a separate, formal content area.) Hard sell and soft sell approaches were…

A study was designed to evaluate the implementation of career exploration in marketing/distribution and hospitality/recreation through courses offered in one junior high and four senior high school classes in Wisconsin in 1977. The marketing/distribution and hospitality/recreation curriculum was incorporated in distributive education, American…

During 1978-79, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conducted a career education project. During this year, the project staff developed several products which would be employed by workshop directors and their audiences as they attempt to demonstrate and implement the incorporation process of the career education…

Discusses the spring dance concert at Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Utah, which explored the theme of human rights. Describes the arts program in relation to the school's mission to develop all aspects of a person, spiritually, physically, and intellectually. Presents the school's dance curriculum. (AJL)

Curriculum planners and career educators are advised to review the literature on infusion with this question in mind: "Does the integration of career education into the regular secondary classroom make a difference in student learning of subject matter and career information?" The philosophy and objectives of career education infusion were…

A third-party evaluation was conducted to assess the accomplishments of a project designed to improve the quality and demonstrate the most effective methods/techniques of career education in four New Hampshire high schools. Accomplishments were assessed in the following areas: development of a staging model; curriculum infusion; school-community…

The purpose of this project was to improve the quality and demonstrate the most effective methods and techniques of career education in four high schools in the state of New Hampshire. The focus was to effect change at two points: the first was the academic curriculum, where committees in each of the project schools reviewed their existing…

The Colorado Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) model was tested in 1978-79 in three rural sites and one urban site utilizing both alternative and infused program approaches. (The modified Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory EBCE model focuses on exploration for grades 7-10.) Evaluation was designed to evaluate three program components…

Designed for equipping teams of local school district personnel, called cadre, to assume leadership of career education inservice teacher training at the secondary level, the project developed two products: a transportable package of instructional materials and a set of organizational procedures. Following a formative evaluation strategy, these…

A project was conducted during 1974-76 to help meet the career awareness, orientation, and exploration needs of Native American youth in grades 7, 8, and 9. Activities included gathering information on Native American career education needs and surveying existing career education materials. Based on that information, twelve instructional units…

Prepared for State University of New York/Buffalo researchers participating in a state-sponsored educational financing project, this background paper focuses on the vocational education "program effects" of changing financial aid formulas and/or the rationale for organizing school districts and regional services. It scrutinizes the role of Boards…