The bibliography lists current career education holdings available at the library of the Training Research and Development Station, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The bibliography is organized into six sections: general career information, occupational information, job search skills, self-concept, decision-making, and other current bibliographies on…

The article describes employability assessment and intervention packages recently developed by the Arkansas Research and Training Center in Vocational Rehabilitation. Counselors can incorporate the employability products into transitional services for disabled students to increase social, vocational, problem-solving, decision-making, on-the-job…

Reports on a study of the impact of formalized school-based job-referral procedures among 94 students in vocationally oriented Japanese high schools. Finds that the process achieves a meritocratic allocation of jobs and a smooth entry into the workforce for most students. (CFR)

Consisting of materials and strategies adapted from California's model projects for the training of career technicians, this document explains how to conduct inservice workshops for these paraprofessionals who provide services in career centers established in nearly all California secondary schools. Twelve training modules cover the following…

This guide is designed for use in teaching general employability skills to disadvantaged and handicapped learners. Although the materials were specifically developed for home economics special needs programs, teachers in other areas also may find the guide useful. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics:…

This competency booklet for individualized competency-based instruction is the fifth of five in the Job Search Skills package. (Instructor program and guides are available separately as CE 031 965 and 966, the other booklets as CE 031 967-970.) It contains four operational units related to the job search competency of handling the job offer. (The…

How to locate information that can be used in career decision making is the subject of this digest. The first section lists the career/occupational information collections generally found in public libraries, including printed resources, information about associations, information about local sources of job information, information on specific…

The Maryland State Department of Education is actively involved in the development of a five-year state plan for career education. The plan is based upon data derived from a student needs assessment, a survey of LEAs, a survey of counselor competencies, and the AIR Survey of Career Education in the public schools which sampled ten districts in…

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for animal management technician (AMT) is a competency list verified by expert workers that evolved from a job analysis. It identifies occupational, academic, and employability competencies needed to enter the occupation; lists and clusters them into broader units; and details the competency…

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for nurse aide (NA) is a competency list verified by expert workers that evolved from a job analysis. It identifies occupational, academic, and employability competencies needed to enter the occupation; lists and clusters them into broader units; and details the competency builders needed to…

Written for, by, and about adult students, this issue includes a series of articles dealing with various aspects of students' career and educational plans and planning. The following topics are covered: the necessity of taking risks in life; the story of someone who finally gets the nerve to take the General Equivalency Development (GED) test;…

This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…