This paper reports on research into how effective non-statutory guidance has been in managing the primary science curriculum in England. A small-scale qualitative study was used to elicit the views of teachers, local education authority advisors, an Ofsted inspector and a policy-maker. The findings indicate that the guidance is influencing the…

The present paper provides a task analysis for creating a computerized data system using a Pocket PC and Microsoft Visual Basic. With Visual Basic software and any handheld device running the Windows MOBLE operating system, this task analysis will allow behavior analysts to program and customize their own functional analysis data-collection…

This paper is the Office for Civil Rights's (OCR's) "Annual Report to Congress" for fiscal years 2007 and 2008. This report details OCR's accomplishments in enforcing the civil rights laws under which OCR has been granted jurisdiction to address and remedy discrimination. These enforcement efforts include complaint investigation and resolution,…

The goal of this book is to describe the knowledge base and skills that are necessary for advisers of student organizations. A foundation of basic concepts about college students, student groups, and organizations is provided; the general knowledge that advisors routinely use is detailed, and specific issues that will recur in various contexts are…

The author discusses the necessity for a counselor to develop a personal schedule of daily work and let school personnel know about it in order to facilitate their understanding of the counselor's role. Schedules should be prepared after consulting teachers and the principal. (SE)

The staffing conference was developed as a quality control mechanism to monitor a student's progress through the college program. This article describes the structure and process of the staffing conference and discusses some of the resulting benefits that have accrued to staff, students, and the counseling program as a whole. (Author)

The scope of behavior modification may be expanded by the interaction between the modification of social and academic behaviors, manipulation of antecedent conditions in order to evoke reinforceable responses, use of controlling variables on a school-systemwide basis, and use of standardized tests as an additional dependent measure. Portions…

Vocational guidance counselors face a number of concerns as they try to develop career guidance and counseling programs. Because of changes in the workplace as a result of high technology, phrases such as work readiness, career maturity, and career adaptability are essential to the understanding of where a person is in the career decision-making…

The four phases of developing and implementing a comprehensive guidance program (planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating) as described by Mitchell and Gysbers (1978) are used as the organizers for this book. Chapter 1 traces the evolution of guidance in the schools from the turn of the century. The changing influences, emphases, and…

This monograph on the status of guidance and counseling in the United States is taken from the author's 1982 testimony to the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. International and national perspectives on guidance and counseling are addressed, and geographic differences in guidance and…

This evaluation of the Des Moines school guidance program provides an introductory history of guidance and counseling services in the district. General results of the evaluation focus on changing counselor roles, and problems caused by lack of specific program guidelines. Counselor profiles and interviews are presented, with an analysis of…

In September 1986, a survey was begun to determine the amount and type of provision of vocational guidance in distance adult and higher education outside the United Kingdom. The researcher wrote to 176 institutions provided from the database of the Open University's International Centre for Distance Learning and to 7 African institutions not…

Written to orient foreign language teachers to the concept of career education, to clear up some misconceptions that may exist, and to offer some suggestions as to how career education could benefit the profession. (PM)

The Anderson County School system has developed a "pre-vocational" program that will provide to all seventh and eighth grade students an exposure to knowledge of self, individual interests and aptitudes, decision making skills, occupational information, and exploratory experiences. (BP)

This article was used in the Writers Workshop sponsored by the American School Counselor Association Publications Committee at the American Personnel and Guidance Convention, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-11, 1968.