According to a survey report of the Student Guidance Center at the Seoul National University, approximately thirty percent of the freshmen expressed the desire to be transferred to other departments. It was further reported that more than forty percent of them list the unsuitability of their academic departments to their interests and aptitudes as…

This document reports on the development and implementation of a program at the Community College of Baltimore (CCB) whose primary goals were the placement of persons with epilepsy in jobs or in educational programs leading to a career, and development of a model program of career education, counseling, and employer education demonstrating the…

This first in a series highlighting Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) programs describes a guidance and placement program in Williamson County, Tennessee, to ease students' transition from school to work through career counseling, job training at Yates Vocational Center, job placement, and community liaison services.…

A successful on-the-job training program in which the employer is the student's trainer and supervisor must include proper student placement and site selection. The author offers criteria for locating and approving training agencies. (MF)

Statistical data are presented regarding students applying for residency programs through the National Intern and Resident Matching Program during 1978. Comparisons with previous years are made for overall participation and positions offered and filled. (LBH)

Possible misinterpretation of grade equivalents to measure the growth and the placing students is the subject of this research. The findings suggest the use of standard scores as the most appropriate method to measure change. (MFD)

Over a two-year period Hinsdale South High School (Chicago, Illinois) has successfully mainstreamed 59 hearing impaired students into such courses as English, mathematics, science, physical education, and business education. Program components include admission criteria, a Coordinator of Mainstreamed Support Services, counseling, interpreters,…

Undergraduates are sacrificing the full experience of college to other priorities and the major detractor is off-campus work. Faculty complain that jobs take time from studies and extracurricular activities; job schedules constrain a teacher's ability to confer with students, to arrange field trips, and student time in the library. (MLW)

Stanford Achievement Test scores of 1,434 elementary-level students already placed in either regular or special education programs were arranged according to four cutoff points: 20th, 15th, 10th, and 5th percentiles. This identification method, setting the cutoff at the 5 percent level, is proposed as a preliminary screening device for special…

Interviews with more than 100 persons from seven diverse California school districts revealed a lack of formal information disclosure about the matching of particular students with teachers, courses, grade levels, and schools. Discusses information disclosure benefits in terms of informed choice and the citizen's right to know. (MLF)

The present status of gifted education in Nigeria is discussed in terms of the changing perception of giftedness, the learning environment (including home tutoring, acceleration, enrichment, and special classes/schools.) Implications for Nigerian education are discussed including the school statutory age, the mandated curriculum, and educational…

The Job Training Partnership Act, which provides money to programs preparing disadvantaged (including disabled) individuals for entry into the labor force, has helped special education students in such programs as the Special Education Local Plan Areas Job Project and the Day Training Activity Center at the Las Trampas School, Inc. in Lafayette,…

Foresees a dramatic impact on student assessment for both placement and instruction by rapidly changing technology. Considers the use of computers in pretesting, placement, vocational interests/aptitude assessment, special population tests, diagnostic assessment, linking assessment and instruction, scoring tests and generating data, and providing…

Offers a review of ERIC documents providing descriptions of testing programs and evaluations of student assessment programs, as well as materials focusing on assessment validity, state testing initiatives, and cohort testing. (DMM)

This article examines the role of the vocational counselor in the job-seeking process for learning-disabled adults. It covers assessment of clients' interests and abilities and matching with job opportunities; teaching of job-seeking skills; use of volunteer jobs to assess clients' work habits; job-hunting procedures; and dealing with work…