It was hypothesized that first borns would prefer person- and intellectually-oriented occupations. It was also predicted that women, more than men, would prefer person-oriented occupations. The Hebrew version of Roe's classification of occupations was completed by 146 individuals. Only the second hypothesis was confirmed. (Author/SE)

The article describes the relationship between communication and career education and identifies specific oral communication needs in the five occupational clusters recognized by the Illinois Office of Education (agriculture, business and management, health, industry, and services). (MF)

Seventy-six insurance company jobs were analyzed by 203 raters in an effort to assess the potential usefulness of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) as a job analysis device to be employed in a more extensive, company-wide research program. (Editor/RK)

Research is presented on the construction of job families based on Position Analysis Questionnaire data. The data were subjected to a component analysis. Results were interpreted as sufficiently encouraging to proceed with analyses of validity generalization within the job families. (Editor/RK)

Vocational interests, personality, work environment, and background of authors and critics, male and female, in children's literature are examined in terms of Holland's theory of vocational types. On SVIB indicator scales, both authors and critics score as artistic types with "consistent" profiles, but authors are more…

Careers in the music field for Hispanos are available for the industrious, competitive, and talented person. Among the careers are: composer, orchestrator-arranger, church musician, conductor, teacher, music librarian, tuner-technician, copyist, and instrument repairer. (NQ)

This document presents skill standards for technology occupations. An overview describes national context, changes in the updated "Millennium Edition" of the skill standards, trends in information technology, and curriculum informed by skill standards. Skill standards are presented for eight career clusters in information technology (i.e.,…

This paper outlines the basic tenets of occupational segregation. It examines Washington State's school labor markets, paying particular attention to where and in what proportions women participate. It questions, based on the state's track record, whether leadership roles in school districts remain male bastions, or whether they offer equal…

The Kentucky health cluster program serves in filling paramedical vacancies and in training inner city persons for productive employment. The article, authored by the organizer of the program, describes the program and its participants and evaluates its success. (AG)

An Oregon Board of Education specialist in health occupations reports on short-term teacher education programs since 1965. (JK)

This model was developed for a target group of grades nine through twelve in secondary schools having from 10 to 350 students to be served by vocational programs. (Editor)

The statistical approach used in the present study results in a visual and spatial organization of occupations. This occupational configuration has face validity in that observers usually agree that jobs placed close together are similar in many ways while those far apart are different. (Author/BY)

Describes how the Oregon Board of Education planned, developed, and prepared to implement and experimental career cluster curriculum for high school students. (GR)

Determined the extent to which direct judgments of similarity by supervisors and incumbents could provide the same job classification results as a more elaborate job analysis procedure. Results using hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis revealed that the global judgments and task-oriented data led to identical…

The purpose of this paper was to compare job classification decisions that are reached by using three different types of job analysis information: task-oriented, worker-oriented, and abilities-oriented. Practical implications of the findings of the study are presented. (Author/KC)