Examined high school students' (N=240) awareness of internal vocational information useful in career decision making and examined the effect of a vocational awareness activity. Results indicated tenth graders were unstable in self-perceived internal information relating to career choice. Appendix contains the Vocational Awareness Scale. (JAC)

The present study was designed to assess effects of career education on career maturity and consider sex differences. The career education program again, as in 1975, had a positive effect in increasing students' levels of career maturity. Sex differences were observed on subscores of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI). (Author)

Examined the effects of a life role planning program on 152 high school students. Compared to controls, the experimental group showed greater career decisiveness, and greater independence, involvement, and compromise in career decision making. Results dealing with work and family roles were inconsistent. (JAC)

A study examined the effects of educational interventions of conflict resolution and cooperative learning on adolescent vocational readiness at three inner-city alternative public high schools in New York City. The study used a combination of correlation design and pre-post design. Associations among study variables were explored using pretest…