The project concentrated on providing intrastate relocation assistance to disadvantaged rural workers in Mississippi, with a flexible minimum of supportive service. Assistance consisted of counseling, providing housing, travel arrangements, job interviews, job development, financial aid, and recruiting the unemployed. (Author)

The study had three purposes: to obtain information concerning the careers of graduates of the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A and M to be utilized in counseling, to obtain information pertinent to curriculum improvement, and to provide information for improving placement services. Data from a questionnaire sent to 208 former…

Research was conducted to study possible alternatives to ACT and SAT for admission and placement purposes. A survey of California community colleges revealed that the information desired about students is how well they can write, how well they can read, and how well they can apply basic mathematics skills and that the test should not exceed $3.00…

This report summarizes the proceedings, conclusions, and recommendations of the New York Vocational Advisory Council for the 1972 fiscal year. Concerned with the role and function of guidance, counseling, placement, and followup programs within the State, the Council authorized three studies: (1) The Arthur D. Little Study of six localities, (2)…

This thorough review of the literature highlights six recurrent themes: (1) Women, minority students, and students from low income families have not obtained occupational information and assistance in relating their abilities and interests to career options and skills training programs. (2) Placement services within the school improve school…

This document discusses the role of the placement office in a liberal arts setting, responds to key issues attracting and assisting the liberal arts student into and through the placement process, and reviews the demands that may be put on placement offices in the future. Issues discussed concern the change in social setting on campus, the market…

This study examined relationships among conformity to biographical item writing rules, rated stability, and obtained response stability. First and second administration data were collected and a stability index was obtained on 88 items using a college freshmen sample (N=106). One group of judges then educed rules to discriminate between the more…

The proceedings of the European Symposium on Occupational Rehabilitation and Placement of the Disabled present a general survey of the problem of reintegrating disabled persons into working life. Member countries agreed that men and women must be rehabilitated as much as possible rather than pensioned off prematurely. To accomplish this the labor…

To develop and operationalize a model job training-employment program which utilizes the Federal Civil Service system to provide job training and subsequent employment for hard-core youth, a 26-week pilot program was conducted for 18 female trainees. The training program consisted of a 2-week orientation followed by a 3-month classroom training…

To determine if student placement in community colleges' programs of study and courses could be improved if objective information relating to the reading requirements of each course were related to the student's measured reading ability, an investigation was carried out at Rockland Community College. The Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered…

This study was designed to provide the teacher trainers at State University College, Fredonia, New York with information to identify the actual criteria upon which student teachers were being evaluated and to provide a basis for altering the evaluation process so that it would measure more validly the degree to which objectives of the field…

This study is one of two containing the findings and summary of an evaluation of the Work Incentive Program (WIN). A national survey, involving 50 projects, the study focuses on three aspects of the program which include: (1) the degree to which the WIN population represents the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) population, (2) the…

A demonstration project was conducted to determine the programmatic, economic, and administrative advantages of a coordinated system of sheltered workshops strategically located in a metropolitan and suburban area which placed 51 (15 percent) out of 330 trainees. Thirty-eight were placed in either competitive or on-the-job training programs. Nine…

This collection of 43 professional papers includes discussions by experts in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, vocational rehabilitation counseling, employment counseling, sociology and social work. Major topic sections are: (1) The Concept of Cure Versus the Reality of Improvement, (2) Personal Problems of the…

The first of these two papers discusses the problems faced by practicum students in a newly-created counseling program at Louisiana State University. In an effort to provide a broader background, students were placed in community agencies during the summer months. Bi-weekly seminars kept each candidate abreast of the activities of the others.…