Focuses on career education and how it can be integrated into the curriculum. (SB)

Eleven occupational values were entered in a stepwise discriminant analysis of the responses of students in second level courses in law, medicine, engineering, business, and education. Five variables provided significant discrimination: pay received, advancement, working conditions, fringe benefits, prestige. (Author)

Suggests that mandates to successful programs include knowledge of work world, and its broadly defined dimensions, social changes influencing workers, factors in career planning relationships between education and future plans, and acquisitions of more effective decision making skills. (Author/CJ)

Provides information drawn from findings of several experimental projects for disadvantaged youth that concentrate on short-term orientation as a prelude to fast placement in jobs or training. (SB)

At the State University of New York/Binghamton, merging data processing concepts with career library materials makes it possible for students to do much more preliminary digging" for information on their own. (Author)

A power mechanics program that's more than just auto mechanics. (Editor)

Described is a computerized program which includes the following features: (1) a vocational program which helps a student evaluate his ability and suggests possible work areas; (2) an educational program which helps students plan course of study; and (3) a remedial program which corrects defects in student's previous training. (Author/CJ)

When occupations were analyzed, patterns of gross overrepresentation of the professional occupations and underrepresentation of clerical, sales, and benchwork categories were noted. This distortion of the world of work as portrayed on television serials was compared with the distortion already noted in the occupational literature. (Author)

School schedules are relaxed as teachers and students (slow learners included) explore occupations in a variety of preplanned, class-related activities. (Editor)