Counseling parents of institutionalized adolescents and adults should address basic problems of parental overestimation of the child's impairment, anxiety regarding future community placement, and apprehension about the alternatives to community placement. Characteristic parental responses to their son's or daughter's placement in less restrictive…

The final report of a project to implement a career education guidance and placement program in the school of North Dakota covers the period of time from February 1972 to November 1973. The goals and objectives of the project include improving the guidance and counseling services to all North Dakota high school students; establishing placement…

The Southern Regional Education Board Manpower and Education Project objectives include both the development of projections for educational needs relative to demand in various occupations in the South, and the creation of greater awareness among students, faculty and administration regarding career planning and utilization of occupational manpower…

This study examines the impact of job-relevant information on search behavior of males and females, and compares the findings with those obtained in the Ullman and Gutteridge studies. The data were obtained from two questionnaires and by monitoring the operations of the Purdue University computerized teacher placement bureau. The subjects of the…

This demonstration project represents a pioneer effort in dealing with the joblessness situation of workers with convulsive disorders. Providing 1,200 jobseekers with vocational counseling, individual job development, training, and placement, the program showed that under good economic conditions a systematic approach can avoid needless…

A normative survey was conducted of all certificated, experienced public secondary school counselors in Missouri, to ascertain the problems, practices, and perceptions of Missouri counselors concerning the five vocational guidance functions specified in the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and its 1968 Amendments. The survey instrument was…

This booklet suggests topics to be included in negotiating professional standards in teacher contracts. The first section offers a list of suggested negotiable topics, and the second section lists individual sample negotiations items worded in more specific language which might be suitable for inclusion in a contract proposal. The topics covered…

The report reviews estimates of the number of disabled who could be brought into the labor market, and describes some of the characteristics of the vocationally handicapped. Certain critical need categories are recognized, and a model for employment services is designed to provide special emphasis to services for these critical need groups. (CD)

This six-volume teacher workbook introduces the teacher to the design of the Individually Prescribed Instruction procedure (IPI)--particularly as it is applied in mathematics--and instructs him in the use of its objectives and tools through pretest-posttest lessons. Following initial lessons in the history and procedures of individualized…

Responding to a mandate from the Board of Higher Education to submit a plan for an open admissions policy that would allocate students to the various programs of the University, the University Commission on Admissions of the City University of New York (CUNY) offers three admissions plans, all based on the use of the criterion of class rank…

The major objective of this study was to examine the experience of four projects in Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, and Buncombe County, North Carolina in counseling and placing in jobs older hard-core unemployed workers. Originally the programs were designed to train the hard-core unemployed over 50 years of age. Generally the emphasis was changed…

This publication lists 34 types of schools which are under the supervision of the national educational, social welfare and correctional administrations in Sweden. Each type of school is described according to the following categories: educational stages, normal age group, duration of studies, terms used for classes, examinations, diploma or…

Presented are seven papers given at a conference on deinstitutionalization of the mentally handicapped which focus on protective services and citizen advocacy. Carol Sigelman stresses the following four concepts: follow-along (the monitoring of the developmentally disabled person in the community), advocacy, protection, and shelter, Alternatives…

A new validation procedure was developed for the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) foreign language placement tests. The procedure recommended by CEEB determines if individuals with high and low scores (1) in the same course and (2) from courses at various levels, score differentially on the CEEB tests. If both these differences are…

This two-part document includes a description of the job placement component of State Fair Community College's (SFCC) vocational-technical division which, since 1971 has placed an average of 96% of its graduates in fields directly related to their training. The program was modeled after successful programs in secondary and post-secondary schools…