To identify, rate, and cluster groups of competencies and occupational titles at entry and advance levels for occupations in five food products commodity areas, data were collected by interviews with personnel managers in 25 Pennsylvania food processing plants. Some findings were: (1) There were meaningful competency factor and occupational title…

Two concepts receiving increased emphasis in today's junior colleges are the use of current, research-based techniques of instruction and the instructional accountability of faculty members. One way to insure effective implementation of these concepts in the individual junior college--as envisioned by the Junior College Division of the Regional…

A 6-year project is being conducted by the Department of Industrial Education of the University of Minnesota to identify criteria which are useful in counseling post-high school vocational technical students. Data are gathered through comprehensive measurement of basic competencies and selected characteristics and are analyzed to determine which…

The decision making process requires more than merely gathering and having access to data. It also involves gathering the "correct" data and "interacting" with that data to realize a desired outcome. To provide students with this type of data about education and work opportunities in such a way that they can relate it to their own goals was the…

As a result of the 1944 Education Act in Great Britain, many more men and women have been graduating from universities and are now going into the field of industrial management. Companies who pioneered in recruiting graduates were the British progressive 'giants' and British subsidiaries of American companies. This publication is designed to be of…

In this project, five alternative methods of forecasting labor supply and demand in an urban labor market were compared in order to determine the optimal method for supplying labor market information to public vocational education systems. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin SMSA was chosen as the site of the project. The project determined the extent to…

This study uses questionnaires to explore the extent of delegation to supportive personnel in Ohio hospitals of 100 or more beds capacity which employ at least one full time dietitian, with primary focus on the use of the food service supervisor. Food service supervisors who had taken a battery of courses established by the American Dietetic…

This annotated bibliography contains materials related to such topics as: (1) worker characteristics and factors influencing success in jobs; (2) student characteristics and attitudes as predictors of job success; and (3) techniques of communicating information to students in order to help them make career choices. The materials cited represent…

During the 1967-1968 academic year an experimental program of classroom instruction in vocational information and career selection was introduced in selected secondary schools. Data were obtained by testing students in the experimental and control groups by administering pre and posttest instruments which focused on four major areas: (1) knowledge…

As part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this paper explores and compares the background of the rural Lumbee Indian with the urban Lumbee living in Pembroke, North Carolina. An interpretation for defining the American Indian in the tri-ethnic community is included, as well as a discussion of the economics of…

This document accompanied a request from the Atlanta Public Schools to the United States Office of Education for a Title III continuation grant which would enable that school system to continue an innovative program intended to develop, compile and disseminate appropriate occupational information for elementary school age children. The report is…

A working party of the Engineering Employees' Federation in the Lancashire and Cheshire region in England met to consider management training and development, to examine the arrangements for management training and development in large companies, and to make recommendations to small and medium sized ones. Data collected from companies through a…

A sample of student tasks and topic objectives which were developed for woodworking courses in Project ABLE are given. A larger collection of these were identified for grades 10, 11, and 12. Prior to this activity an analysis of selected occupations was made, and a frequency count of skills and knowledges was utilized to determine the necessary…

This study investigates the use of specialized staff in less than a professional capacity to support the work of the rehabilitation counselor and the on-going relationship with a client. It specifically concerned the implications of using rehabilitation aides, definitions of the roles and functions of rehabilitation aides, qualification…

Each major cluster formed by the worker trait groups in the Third Edition (1965) of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), was used to define an interest scale for the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS). The OVIS scales regrouped the nine levels described by the DOT for the data, people, and things dimensions of work into three…