At Oakland Community College, each student learns according to his cognitive style. Diagnostic tests guide his career decisions and mode of instruction; extraordinary resources and small curriculum units assure success. (Editor)

The conclusion that interests play an important role in the decisions of junior college students to enter these curricula is apparently justified. It would appear that obtained curriculum clusters along with respective profiles of means will provideuseful reference points from which to consider educational and vocational decisions relative to the…

Examines the potential of mobility-based classifications. Contrasts this approach with traditional industrial and counseling approaches to worker-job matching. Explores the social and psychological meaning of one such classification by describing the classification's categories in terms of the demographic characteristics of category incumbents and…

Discusses elements in selecting program content in the design of industrial arts curricula: the cluster approach, using a trade-and-job-analysis approach to curriculum design, or the concept approach, which takes a broader emphasis from the social institution of industry and the knowledge base of technology. (MF)

Self Directed Search (SDS) and Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) results occupations and fields of study were organized to show the distributions of personalities within an occupation or field of study. The results show that single fields tolerate several types, but some types occur only infrequently. (Author)

Tennessee business/industry employees completed the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (2,260 usable of 3,600). Self-rated perception of work ethic (working with others, striving for achievement, being dependable, accepting duty) differed by occupation among six groups: professional, clerical, service, agricultural, crafts, and general labor. (SK)

Provides career counselors and clients with useful information on understanding occupational environments. Specifically focuses on how to handle a situation in which a client's identified three-letter occupational code is identical to two clearly divergent occupations. (Contains 22 references.) (Author/GCP)

This paper presents the recruiting trends for 2007-2008. This year's report is based on 994 respondents, including 84 K-12 school districts. The researchers focused attention on growing companies, based on lists from Forbes and Inc. magazines, and as a result, they have more small and medium-size employers represented this year. The sample…

This guide is intended to assist tech prep consortia/councils and high schools throughout Wisconsin in developing tech prep career maps. In the first section, a tech prep career map is defined as a counseling resource that presents a recommended sequence of specific courses and experiences designed to enable high school students to develop written…

This document is the Spanish language version of the student materials component designed to accompany the Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with numbering in that guide. Seventeen units are provided. The materials in Unit 1 concern various aspects of locating information about occupations; Unit 2 provides an…

This document contains a task analysis for health occupations (professional nurse) in the nursing cluster. For each task listed, occupation, duty area, performance standard, steps, knowledge, attitudes, safety, equipment/supplies, source of analysis, and Illinois state goals for learning are listed. For the duty area of "providing therapeutic…