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Anderson, Shel; Drucker, Charles B. – 1976
The Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program was designed to provide on-site vocational experiences for high school youth in order to promote: (1) career development skills and knowledge; (2) self-knowledge--interests, abilities, and values; (3) reading skills; (4) problem solving skills; (5) oral communication; (6) writing skills; (7)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Educational Anthropology, Ethnography
Download full textBackman, Margaret E. – 1974
The Fundamental Achievement Series (FAS) is designed to cover a range of ability from basic literacy to approximately the eighth grade. These tests are used in the employment or educational placement of adults and adolescents who have not been exposed to formal education, or the educationally disadvantaged. The FAS contains a Verbal and a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adults
Kapes, Jerome T.; Mason, Suzanne L. – 1976
The objective of the Pennsylvania longitudinal vocational development study was to produce and disseminate vocational development research to vocational directors and counselors to help them have an impact on vocational guidance and job placement activities. Ministudies were conducted using previously collected data relating in-school student and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Counselors, Educational Experience
Johnsburg Public School District 12, McHenry, IL. – 1978
This curriculum guide offers a complete program for teaching pre-employment job-seeking skills that can be implemented in the secondary or postsecondary school. It contains 15 units on job search methods and job survival skills, divided into 40 lesson plans that teachers can use in the classroom. The material is intended to be integrated into…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Education, Curriculum Guides, Employment Experience
Fauria, Charlene K. – 1981
Because there is no "right" way to do assessment, vocational evaluation, or employability development planning, a variety of strategies and tools are used by agencies that best match agency resources and client needs. One common tool used by Lane County CETA, Jackson-Josephine Job Council, and Mid-Willamette Valley Consortium (all in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Choice, Career Development
Rovezzi-Carroll, Susan – 1981
The vocational curricular evaluation model (MCC) developed by the Division of Planning and Development at the Metropolitan Community College Administration Center is used to evaluate the University of Connecticut's School of Allied Health Professions. The three undergraduate programs focused on are physical therapy, clinical dietetics and medical…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Clinical Experience
Byrd, J. Louis – 1981
This report describes activities and presents products of a project to provide vocational guidance, placement, and follow-up services to four high schools in Greene County, Tennessee. The narrative reviews the project design and objectives and discusses the audience, personnel and duties, product development, dissemination activities, project…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Resources
Sloan, Frank A.; And Others – 1978
As the second phase of a four-year research project on the geographic distribution of professional nurses, a study investigated what incentive or incentives motivate nurses in their choice of employment location. Data was analyzed from four sources: a survey of hospital directors of nursing, a survey of registered nurses, 1960 and 1970 U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Age, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit)
Crawford, Lucy C.; Jewell, Lloyd M., Jr. – 1976
Presented in four sections, this handbook was prepared to assist school administrators and placement service personnel in the organization and administration of a student job placement service for a secondary school. The handbook is primarily based on results obtained from developmental projects in a series of workshops provided to train placement…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Budgeting, Career Counseling
Healas, Donald V. – 1978
Vocational education does not create jobs, but rather is a force in readiness, meeting the demand for workers by the business-industrial complex. At the heart of the process of providing job opportunities to urban youth in Cleveland are the vocational teachers and teacher coordinators who have the primary responsibility for placement and followup.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Inst. for Governmental Services. – 1979
Guidelines to aid in formulating a workable career guidance program at the local level are provided in a handbook for Massachusetts counselors and educators. An overview of the handbook and a position paper of the State Board of Education are presented in chapter 1. The next five chapters discuss (1) program planning and development; (2) school…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Exploration
Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, 1979
To identify central problems in vocational education in Alaska, a study focused on the three sectors at the postsecondary school level: public or independent nonprofit institutions, private schools, and apprenticeship programs. Public and nonprofit institutions consider job preparation their primary goal in addition to skill upgrading and teaching…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alaska Natives, Apprenticeships
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. – 1978
Summaries are included here for all vocational research projects in Florida from 1965 to 1976 as well as a few 1977 projects which have been completed. The format for the entries is informative data (title, organization, project director, expenditures, project duration, and project number), problem to be addressed, objectives to be met, procedures…
Descriptors: Administration, Agriculture, Business Education, Career Education
BUENAVENTURA, ANGELES – 1967
REPRESENTATIVES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FORMER MIGRANTS (FARM WORKERS) AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, NEGRO AND WHITE, PARTICIPATED IN A PROGRAM, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT UNSKILLED PERSONS WITH LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION AND LIMITED COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED AND PLACED IN OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THERE WAS LOCAL DEMAND AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs
Knold, John, Comp. – 1980
This report contains summary descriptions of twenty-nine projects which have been implemented during 1978-80 in the state of Washington. By their design, they address the need for vocational equity. The projects received funding from one of several sources including the Washington State Commission for Vocational Education's Research Coordinating…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Planning
