Four students at New College of the University of Alabama illustrate how an innovative unit of an institution can use contracting to experiment with institution-wide changes. (Editor)

The article describes a work/study program for slow learners where the students spend a month at the Brooklyn Bureau's Department for the Handicapped, an agency where the physically and emotionally handicapped are given a comprehensive program of work training, job placement, homemaker training, and recreation. (Author/JB)

Twelve male and 12 female counselors, half inexperienced and half experienced, each recorded the second counseling session with one male and one female client. Results indicated that same-sex pairings had more discussion of feelings by both counselor and client and that inexperienced males and experienced female counselors were more active and…

Most empirical analyses of earnings measure work experience as years since school graduation and cannot, therefore, separate age and experience effects. This study demonstrates that the return to work experience is highly significant in the presence of age variables, but that the returns to experience and schooling are sensitive to the way…

Direct observations of the jobs of 370 workers were used to explain perceptions of monotony and feelings of boredom associated with work. Of the several observational measures of task characteristics that were constructed, the most efficient predictor of monotony and boredom was the number of times during a fixed period that the most…

The catalog is a description of the many types of training programs and cooperative relationships that exist among Federal Laboratories and contract centers and universities. The programs are devoted to enhancing or maintaining the professional competence of staff personnel in their fields of specialization. The programs identified in the report…

To study existing school-supervised work education programs, to describe different organizational patterns, to identify constraints on program expansion, and to examine incentives to increase employer participation, representative programs were suggested upon request by Chief State School Officers, Directors of Secondary Vocational Education,…

Air Force technical training instructors with and without field job experience were compared regarding teaching effectiveness. Student grades, written critiques, and supervisor ratings were used to measure effectiveness. Results indicated significant differences between instructors on student overall course grades and critiques. However, an…

This report describes an experimental "introduction to industry" program and is intended to help the Education Service, industry, and commerce in planning further courses, by setting out a possible pattern for organization of such courses and describing the initial reactions to experimental programs. This program involved a 3-week period during…

Holland's occupational classification was used to analyze the work histories of a national representative sample of young men and women age 14-24. This study extended previous tests of the classification in three ways: (1) It was applied for the first time to a national, representative sample of women, (2) For the sample of men, 3-year…

The results of this survey of Arizona counselors seem to dispel the belief that practicing secondary counselors lack contact with the world of work, and suggest further research in this area. (Author)

Author fears that the needs and interests of young people may or may not be given priority under the new Youth Opportunities Program. (Editor/RK)