The initial stages of test development of the Vocational and Occupational Interest Choice Examination (VOICE), developed for Air Force recruiters, are described. Reviewed are a number of relevant occupational interest inventories from which a pool of 400 items was drawn corresponding to eight career fields: general accounting, administration,…

The source book was compiled to contain the materials supplemental to a planning guide designed to assist educational leaders at the district level with planning and implementing a program of career education. Illustrations and forms too voluminous to be contained in the guide are organized by steps recommended for planning: (1) conduct needs…

To analyze and compare the cooperative occupational education and vocational-technical school programs and graduates in the Springfield, Missouri, public schools, information forms were sent to: (1) 268 graduates of the cooperative occupational education programs and 417 graduates of the vocational-technical school for the years 1961-1965, (2)…

The purpose of this paper is to present an outline of the occupational education program that is being implemented in the rural community of Apex, North Carolina. Cast in the form of an exemplary program and representing a total approach to the problem of occupational education for elementary and secondary school children, the program will provide…

Developed as a multi-county effort, this project sought to design model career education programs involving: (1) Elementary Orientation, (2) Work Experience, (3) Intensive Teaching, (4) Curriculum Development for Underachievers, and (5) Placement and Followup. In addition to improving and evaluating vocational education at the 11th and 12th grade…

The aim of this manual is to provide a useful tool for school personnel engaged in placement work and related activities in career education and guidance. Chapter l looks at job placement services, including the career resource centers and benefits to students. Chapter 2 outlines preliminary steps and needs in initiating a job placement program.…

The final report of the exemplary project in vocational education, which ended June 30, 1976 in the Greeley area of Colorado presents, reviews, and evaluates the efforts toward career education implementation in the curricula of Weld County School District Six, the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) College of Education, and the UNC Laboratory…

The Employment Retention Program is a supported employment program involved in job placement and intensive worksite training of graduating handicapped youth, emphasizing retention strategies that transfer supervision to nonhandicapped co-workers and that promote social interactions between handicapped employees and co-workers. At followup, 60…

Successful welfare reform requires quickly moving welfare recipients into jobs. Components to this challenge include the following: a poor fit between where jobs are located and where many welfare recipients live; recipients who lack experience and skills and do not know how to seek, find, or qualify for jobs; childcare and transportation needs;…

As part of its Jobs Initiative (JI) program in six metropolitan areas Denver, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle the Annie E. Casey Foundation sought to develop and test a method for establishing benchmarks for workforce development agencies. Data collected from 10 projects in the JI from April through March, 2000,…

An evaluation was conducted to assess progress in implementing the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (which sought to streamline the delivery of employment and training services) during its first full year ending in June 2001. Data were gathered through contact with 12 national associations representing state and local implementers, visits to…

A benefit-cost analysis of the Job Corps program compared groups randomly assigned to either enroll in the program or to constitute a control group that did not enroll. Youth who participated in the study were those found eligible for Job Corps nationwide between November 1994 and February 1996. Interviews with participants and the assignment of…

The nature and quality of the school-industry programs through which year 11 and year 12 Australian students incorporate periods of learning in the workplace into their senior school studies were examined to identify differences between the programs offered in Australia's various states and territories. The study was based primarily on data…

This second edition of an annotated bibliography on offender job training and placement lists nearly 400 items from the collection of the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Information Center in Longmont, Colorado, including 85 items added since the first edition in 1997. Items new to this edition are marked with an asterisk. Citations have…

Connecticut's Jobs First program, which began operating in January 1996, combines a time limit on welfare receipt with generous financial work incentives and requires recipients to participate in employment-related services targeted toward rapid job placement. The impacts of the Jobs First program were examined by following several thousand…