The perceptions of college of education faculty members of their achievements and future potential at various life cycle and career phases were investigated. Survey questionnaires were sent to 391 college of education faculty members from 38 institutions. Findings emphasized the primacy of teaching in their perceptions for productivity.…

A brief career planning experience was examined in relation to the vocational maturity of inmates. (Author)

The study investigated the career attitudes of three groups of learning disabled (LD) adolescents: (1) 30 LD students enrolled in secondary regular classes, (2) 30 LD students enrolled in secondary vocational training classes, and (3) 30 LD students enrolled in the regular secondary classes and receiving additional services through Learning…

This paper discusses problems that youth experience in seeking employment. Case histories are used to described the following problems: (1) unsuitable appearance; (2) negative attitudes; (3) poor attendance; (4) lack of punctuality; (5) unrealistic wage demands; (6) unrealistic expectations; (7) lack of knowledge of the job market; (8) lack of…

Super's Career Development Inventory (CDI) was adapted to Brazilian culture and applies in a sample of 1048 students of Guanabara State's high schools. Since its purpose is to observe a maturation process, the CDI was administered to the two last grades of grade school and the first two grades of high school, where the students have from seven to…

Research in the field of Career Maturity is reviewed and summarized, with particular attention to Super's Career Pattern Study, Gribbons and Lohnes' Career Development Study, and Crites' Vocational Development Project. Crites' organization and revision into a hierarchical structure of the five dimensions of vocational maturity proposed in Supers'…

A study of work values of mid-life students (ages 35-55) at a Virginia community college found that a work role allowing for achievement, creativity, and intellectual stimulation was of greater value to White mid-life groups than extrinsic values emphasizing economic returns, security, and work associates. Discusses implications for counseling.

The author describes a set of twelve curriculum modules called "Occupational Survival Skills" relating to the "human" aspects of work organizations. The modules were based on information from opinion surveys of workers, students, parents, and teachers on what occupational survival skills are and how to teach them. (MF)

A career decision-making model and program were developed to provide a counseling intervention and teaching materials to aid students in improving their career maturity and decision-making skills. Data indicated that students in the program significantly increased their caree maturity scores. (Author/MFD)

Comparing students in agribusiness sales, supply, and service courses to raw products in need of development, the author discusses the backgrounds of these students and their developing maturity through supervised occupational experience. (BM)

Effects of occupation upon 68 professionals and business managers were studied by means of retrospective focused interviews and objective sorting and rating procedures. Their occupation had nonintegrative effects on their values and self-concepts and autocentric and nonintegrative ones on their personal relationships. (Author)

Compares the career value system of college women preparing to teach business subjects at the secondary level with the values of women preparing for various other challenging careers in different fields of the business world. (Author)

The effectiveness of two career development treatments were compared. No significant differences were found. Implications for career development services are presented. (Author/ABB)

Compared economically dependent college students (N=20) with independent nonstudents (N=20) to assess the impact of prolonged student status. Results of a test battery showed prolonged student status appeared to (1) foster emotional dependence; (2) negatively affect achievement of identity but not self-esteem; and (3) retard vocational identity…

Recent work in the field of vocational education indicates that pooled data may be useful in (1) making decisions about the content of vocational education programs at orientation, exploratory, and preparatory levels, (2) evaluating the effects of vocational education on vocational maturity, and (3) teaching about career and curriculum…