This study was conducted to determine what needs to be done to make work assignments for student trainees in a cooperative education program at the U.S. Army Missile Command interesting and challenging enough to assure the maximum retention of these students as full-time employees when they graduate. A questionnaire and evaluation form was devised…

This report summarizes a conference of thirty minority women in science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry that was held in December 1975, with the support of the National Science Foundation. In addition to a general discussion of the conference and the conferees, the following topics are discussed with respect to the experiences of the…

A program description, including historical development, of the congressional intern program on Capitol Hill, which in the summer of 1974 involved 1800 college students and teenagers, 15 or 20 in the offices of some Senators. The program includes formal speaker and seminar programs as well as work experience. (JT)

A high school Business Enterprise Training Program allows students to participate as a management team in charge of a variety of classroom business enterprises. Teaching strategies, activities, and organization for the program's experiences in basic business principles and management techniques are discussed. (Author/MS)

A study examined the effects of adult education participation together with educational attainment and work experience on three variables: (1) individual modernity, (2) adoption of modern business practices, and (3) occupational achievement. Survey of 60 Mexican-American shopkeepers indicated participation contributed directly to the first two…

Describes the instructional materials and themes of a New England museum project about work in the early nineteenth century. Introduces elementary and secondary students to concepts of industrialization and its impact, work choices, the role of work in a community, and the family as an economic unit. (AV)

To reach unmotivated vocational students, the author suggests locating credible role models from recent graduates and developing a "graduate of the week" bulletin board display or notebook for materials about the graduates and their jobs. (MF)

A master's degree program in geography and geology at Eastern Michigan University merges academic training with career experience. Students with relevant work experience in industry or government may fulfill their thesis requirement by teaching an undergraduate course in the department and preparing a publishable paper. (Author/AV)

It was hypothesized that teachers who were primarily self-supporting and those with blue collar work experience only prior to graduation would have lower rates of attrition, and that those with high occupational aspirations would show a high rate of attrition. (Author/RK)

For Cuban children and students, the terms "work" and "service" are synonymous. The author records his impressions after a week's visit to Cuba on an educational study mission. (Editor/RK)

Iowa high school seniors thought that supervised occupational experience in vocational agriculture was important in developing occupational abilities, according to the research reported in this article. The abilities developed by the experience which were most highly rated by the students are listed. (MF)

Describes a project to help students understand the changing roles of work throughout history. Entitled the "World of Work Project", the program developed curriculum materials based upon the museum collection at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts. (Author/DB)

Describes the Cuban work-study program, the circumstances which gave rise to it, and the overall objectives it hopes to achieve. Then the United States model is discussed. Some thought is given to the future of work-study efforts in U.S. colleges, especially in light of the continuing economic recession. (Author/RK)

Utilizing data on the work experience of women, the authors examine both the empirical specification of human capital models of earnings in the presence of discontinuous work experience over the life cycle and simultaneous-equations models of wage determination and labor supply. (EM)