The career/vocational education section of the Oregon Department of Education developed a project to cope with exploratory work experience problems. Three school district models were selected: an urban/semiurban model, a semiurban/rural model, and a rural model. Problems and solutions were presented in three handbooks, and the urban model also…

The cultural position of women vis-a-vis work is changing. Family breakdown and the financial burdens which come with single-parenting are forcing women to enter the job market for the first time or in a new way. Even in two-parent families, economic constraints are demanding that wives as well as husbands work full-time. Too many women will…

In an attempt to increase successful career education collaborative programming in elementary and secondary schools, representatives of several university counselor education programs planned and then implemented a training program for small teams. The ten teams chosen, all volunteers and consisting of business and government representatives and…

It was hypothesized that four different "life lines" would affect sex role orientations, specifically intimacy, parenting, grandparenting, and work. Subjects were 74 men and 43 women, white, upper middle class with a mean education level of 14 years. Each participant completed a demographic questionnaire, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a…

IN A RESURVEY OF 1957 WOMEN COLLEGE GRADUATES, QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED BY 84 PERCENT OF THE 5,846 CONTACTED IN 1964 PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERRELATED INFLUENCES ON COLLEGE WOMEN OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, POSTGRADUATE SPECIALIZATIONS, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, AND WORK CAREERS. ALMOST THREE-FOURTHS OF THE GRADUATES SURVEYED…

OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO RELATE WORK EXPERIENCES TO UNIVERSITY FACULTY MORALE, (2) TO EXPRESS MATHEMATICALLY THE RELATION BETWEEN THESE EXPERIENCES AND SELF-EXPRESSED MORALE LEVEL, (3) TO IDENTIFY THE DIMENSIONS THAT DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCES, AND (4) TO RELATE THE EXPERIENCES TO THE DIMENSIONS. INTERVIEWS WITH 112 FACULTY MEMBERS…

THE PROGRAM ATTEMPTED TO ORIENT STUDENTS TO EMPLOYER DEMANDS, PROPER WORK HABITS AND ATTITUDES, AND VOCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY, AND HOW AND WHERE TO SOLICIT WORK. ALL SEVENTH GRADERS WERE EXPOSED TO THE VOCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE REGULAR CURRICULUM. IN THE EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADES, POTENTIAL…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A TAXONOMY OF OCCUPATIONS FOR VOCATIONAL COUNSELORS. A REVIEW WAS MADE OF THE PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH LITERATURE RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES POTENTIALLY USEFUL TO A TAXONOMY. EFFORTS WERE MADE TO RECONCILE THE FINDINGS WITH DATA OBTAINED PREVIOUSLY THROUGH THE JOB ANALYSIS AND INTEREST…

Project PISCES (a Pilot Infusion System for Career Experiential Studies) combines curriculum and work experience components to meet the vocational education needs of emotionally disturbed and learning disabled students in Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Unit No. 23. Core elements of Project PISCES include a curriculum which focuses on self…

The paper presents a systems model for the evaluation of prevocational preparation programs for the learning disabled in Australia. The need for accountability in the area of the development of programs for the prevocational preparation of the learning disabled is discussed. Various approaches to evaluation are explored, and a systems model is…

The purpose of the pilot program was to develop and test a new structure for vocational agriculture and thus meet the needs of a wider range of students. The curriculum was developed around 16 different agricultural subjects offered in alternate years on a semester basis. Agricultural engineering and agricultural survey were offered each semester…

A study of top management education was carried out in a practical training situation to determine attitude change and relationships between training objectives and training evaluation, initial standing and change, and initial standing and background factors. Subjects were 140 people completing one of five management courses. A questionnaire and…

This is a handbook designed for educators, manpower planners, and other officials interested in taking advantage of new legislation for creating youth employment programs. In the first part of the book major provisions of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 are explained. Good planning is stressed as crucial to the success…

This report presents guidelines developed by a task force at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) for translating experiential learning into academic credit. Introductory sections describe the institutional commitment to granting credit for non-traditional learning experiences, a new related Associate in Liberal Studies degree, the current…

The publication, a summary of a two-day workshop for education and rehabilitation personnel working with the mentally retarded student-client, contains the rationale for work-study experience programs, guidelines for establishing and maintaining a program, and information on various stages of the process. The following papers, which are included…