PRESENTED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YORK CITY LABOR MARKET ARE FACTS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF YOUTHS IN THE 16- TO 24-YEAR-OLD AGE GROUP WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED AND NOT IN SCHOOL AND ABOUT THE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT OF NEW YORK CITY YOUTH. A COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF WHITE AND NONWHITE YOUTH IS…

Through the use of group interviews in which individuals were stimulated to interact on key questions, 100 applicants over the age of 45 and with incomes below the poverty standard were selected for training in two different 11-week training sessions. There were no requirements of education or experience. The first phase of the program was in a…

To synthesize knowledge concerning factors which affect occupational achievement through a set of explicit models based upon the concept of the socioeconomic life cycle, six major bodies of data from various sources were collected and subjected to secondary analysis. A number of items of lesser scope were gleaned from additional sources for use in…

Based on the reports of forty-four experienced part time teachers, this pamphlet examines the overall situation in the evening institutes in the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire. Subjects covered include: subject and special problems, teaching aims, kind of students, difficulties, effective teaching, and lessons learned by teachers. The age…

As of October 1963, there were 102 associate degree programs in nursing, 82 of them in 2-year institutions. These 82 represented only 3 percent of the 704 junior colleges listed in the 1963 Junior College Directory. Surveys were conducted to discover the factors that led to or inhibited establishment of nursing programs. The volume of full-time…

The overall nurse career-patterns study actually consists of four concurrent longitudinal studies relating to the four kinds of nursing programs in which, if possible, each subject will be followed from the time of entrance through a 15-year period after graduation. The practical nurse study seeks to determine whether certain biographical data or…

This document is a final report of a 2-year research project that evolved from a 1965 Delta Pi Epsilon Research Training Conference and was funded in 1966 for a 2-year period by the U. S. Office of Education. The specific objectives were to identify successful secretaries, analyze which variables contributed to secretarial success, identify…

Twenty directors and instructors in schools of practical nursing in Kentucky and a total of nine directors and instructors from six other states and the District of Columbia attended a 2-week workshop at the University of Kentucky in July 1967. The purpose was to assist participants to integrate mental health concepts into the practical nurse…

This summer institute was designed to upgrade teacher educators in business education departments of urban universities and state colleges. Specific purposes were to increase their knowledge of culturally different youth and programs for these youth, and to provide an opportunity for them to develop and implement teaching units for such programs.…

A study conducted in a rural and an urban county in Texas sought to determine factors affecting changes in occupational patterns taking place in selected Spanish American populations from each of the 2 areas. An attempt was also made to determine levels of living, income, education, and aspirations of parents for their children's futures. The…

The primary purposes of this study were to determine occupational opportunities for ornamental horticulture technicians in Ohio and to propose curriculums for training them. In the first phase, data were collected by questionnaire from 64.8 percent of 962 potential Ohio employers which was a 50 percent random sample of 1900 employers. In the…

This volume is the result of the application of the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS) curriculum design method in radiologic technology and is presented in conjunction with volume 1, which reports the task analysis results. Volume 2 contains job-related behavioral curriculum objectives for the aide, technician, and technologist levels in…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in public service, this student guide is one of nine (each with accompanying teacher's manual) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the guide is on regulatory services and…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 10 terminal objectives for an intermediate automotive body repair and refinishing course. The materials were developed for a two-semester (3 hours daily) course for specialized classrooms, shop, and practical experiences designed to enable the…

Educational objectives, which were developed during a 5-day workshop by vocational education teachers and which relate to career development, are presented in this report. (The workshop was designed to address that part of the North Dakota State Plan concerned with developing career education curriculum materials and personnel expertise for use in…