This report was intended to provide a basis and rationale for the organization and development of a multi-State consortium to produce catalogs of performance objectives and criterion-referenced measures in occupational education. Information is centered around two elements which are the major concerns: (1) The accountability phenomenon and its possible effect on occupational education, and (2) efforts of the States to cooperate on a formal basis for the improvement of occupational education in the public sector. It is noted that this report will be used to present to vocational educators and others who may be interested in the formation of a consortium the present status of efforts in this direction and the elements which specifically relate to the national movement toward accountability in education. After a brief introduction, information is presented under the following headings: Method of Procedure; The Status of Occupational Education in the United States--Are We Ready for the Implication of Educational Accountability; The Accountability Movement--What's in It for Occupational Education?; Performance Objectives and Criterion-Referenced Measures--Possibilities for Getting Accountability to the Classroom?; The Educational Consortium--Another Exercise in Futility, Or Is it an Answer?; and Findings and Conclusions of the Study--Or Putting It All Together. A bibliography and appendixes are included. (HD)