The overall purpose of the Occupational Training Information System (OTIS) is to provide improved data for evaluating recommended changes in Oklahoma's State Plan for Vocational Education. In addition to matching manpower supply and demand to show net demand, the project includes components and cost analysis, a followup, underdeveloped human…

Developed for counselors and students, this handbook contains descriptions and occupational trends of over 700 occupations which are categorized according to: (1) professional and related occupations, (2) managerial occupations, (3) clerical and related occupations, (4) sales occupations, (5) service occupations, (6) skilled and other manual…

Phase I of a multiphase research program in progress at the Technical Education Research Center, Inc., was conducted to analyze needs and resources in terms of job performance tasks, career opportunities, and training requirements for nuclear medical technicians. Data were gathered through personal interviews with 203 persons, mostly physicians,…

This project was the research phase of a 3-part program designed to define the potential demand by state and local governments for youth trained by vocational-technical schools. Eleven county areas were selected in Wisconsin which contained a vocational school and a substantial number and variety of government personnel. Budgets, personnel…

The Air Force has developed a data bank which classifies job descriptions into occupational clusters. A retrieval system, also recently developed computes and publishes a consolidated description of the work being performed by any group which can be defined in terms of the background information. Other retrieval programs are available which enable…

Thirteen research reviews in this issue pertain to guidance and new careers organized under topics of: (1) Occupational Information, treating a career information service, a pilot computer-assisted guidance program, a junior high school program, and a study of information flow into secondary schools, (2) Careers, including a discussion of a…

This informal presentation describes how and why the Air Force uses the job inventory approach for collecting, analyzing, and reporting information describing the work performed by its personnel. This is followed by a brief description of the Comprehensive Occupational Data Computer Program (CODAP) system, the applications of job survey…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating curriculum concepts in English to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. State concepts for ninth grade English, as outlined in the Texas Education Agency "Bulletin 615" for instruction,…

This report documents and evaluates the efforts of Walt Whitman High School to provide career information and guidance to its students. The Career Guidance Service is composed of three elements: (1) Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Testing; (2) Career Workshop; and (3) Career Information Resource Center. The ASVAB is a group of…

The Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) supports policy formation at two levels. On the static level, MISOE provides managers with data about students, teachers, administrators, costs, and the social impacts of educational programs which are essential to the accurate analysis of present policy. On another level, the…

The Allied Health Professions Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, has developed a new approach to occupational and task analysis and an innovative task-oriented method of preparing instructional materials based on those analyses. Task inventories have been prepared and are available for 25 occupations. About one-third of the…

The outline lists 14 career education activities that middle school teachers (grades 6-8) can relate to subject areas of: science, mathematics, English, social studies, foreign language, art, home economics, music, and industrial arts. Educational requirements are described for various occupations; occupations also are listed under appropriate…

This booklet has been developed to assist schools in planning programs of middle school occupational education. The objectives of career explorations and a series of operational principles are set forth. The Florida Model for Career Development is described. A number of instructional approaches are suggested with forty-six appropriate topics which…

This report documents a research project conducted to ascertain what specific occupational competencies are necessary for employees in the food service industry. Questionnaires were mailed to employers, in restaurants and hospitals and to graduates of high school and postsecondary food service programs. The respondents completed 316 position…

This document, the third in a series of three, contains the appendixes of a study designed to provide information for preparing a planning guide for drafting and design technology. Appendix A includes: (1) sample letters, (2) a questionnaire form, (3) statistical derivations, and (4) comparative topic ratings for the curriculum survey. Appendix B…