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Zinth, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2018
This Special Report outlines state-level policy components that help ensure work-based learning opportunities for high school students are well-coordinated, broadly accessible, aligned to state or regional workforce demands, and of high quality.
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Work Experience Programs, High School Students
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2021
Work-based learning faces significant changes in delivery in the face of a global pandemic that has severely limited physical access to schools and businesses. These changes have forced school leaders and employers to acknowledge pre-existing inequities that perpetuate historical barriers and racial discrimination and keep marginalized learner…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Accountability
Hill, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A phenomenological approach was used with this study to give a voice to individuals who are incarcerated for the purpose of understanding their past educational experiences in the areas of academics, personal/social, and career exploration. The study included interviews with 25 individuals who are incarcerated and who were purposefully selected to…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Phenomenology, Semi Structured Interviews
Esters, Levon T. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which career exploration process behaviors influence the level of career certainty of agriculture students. Data were gathered from 181 freshmen and 131 senior students enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University. Career certainty was assessed using…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Career Choice, Biological Sciences, Sciences
Nietupski, John; Warth, Judy; Winslow, Amy; Johnson, Russ; Douglas, Beverly; Johnson, Maggie; Cilek, Judy – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
This article describes an innovative school-to-work transition program incorporating identified best practices. Iowa's Super Senior program serves students in the "middle range" of the disability severity spectrum during the student's senior and 5th, or "Super Senior" year. The article describes the program elements, presents…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Transitional Programs, High School Seniors, Disabilities
Timmerman, L. D. – 1977
The Iowa Career Exploration Institute was designed to plan for implementation of career education at the junior high or middle school level. Fourteen planning teams were selected from different size schools and geographical areas of Iowa. The teams consisted of administrators, counselors, and classroom teachers. The first three days of meetings…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Junior High Schools
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. Div. of Career Education. – 1978
Based on the Iowa model for career education, this career education inventory presents a series of four tests for measuring a student's career education development. Following a list of student outcome objectives, tests are provided for four levels of career development: grades K-3, awareness; grades 4-6, accommodation; grades 7-9, exploration;…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Southwest Iowa Learning Resources Center, Red Oak. – 1979
This junior high/middle school career exploration implementation manual is designed to assist in implementing a comprehensive career exploration program using four career exploration components developed in the Improving Career Exploration project. The first of six sections addresses career exploration and career/vocational development. Basic…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. Special Needs Section. – 1974
The publication is a summary of the Federally sponsored programs for disadvantaged and handicapped persons that have been administered by the Special Needs Section of the Iowa State Department of Public Instruction during fiscal years 1972, 1973, and 1974. It is the responsibility of the Special Needs Section to plan, implement, and evaluate…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disabilities
Maitre, Merry; And Others – 1982
The reference guide presents information on placing special education students in the community for "specially designed" career exploration or "specially designed" vocational training in Iowa. Much of the information is in question and answer format. An introductory section provides background on the employee-employer…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Community Resources, Cooperative Education, Disabilities
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1980
The Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) was instituted as a systematic attempt at exploring careers in Iowa and inducing Iowa youth to seek careers closer to home following high school graduation or post-secondary education training; a major purpose of the Toward Community Growth project was to teach positive attitudes about living and working…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Career Awareness, Career Development
Lex, Louise; And Others – 1980
The goal of the 1980 Employment Project in Iowa was to expand nontraditional career options for women and high school girls. The two targeted areas were Des Moines and the Iowa Lakes Region. Project staff sponsored three meetings to help 237 women explore nontraditional jobs and training opportunities. Two intensive orientations to nontraditional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Building Trades
McQuillen, Terry; Nietupski, John; Berg, Deana Duncan; Daugherty, Vicki; Bildstein, Stephanie – 2001
This final report and implementation manual describes the activities and outcomes of Iowa's High School High Tech (HSHT) program, a joint effort of Grant Wood Area Education Agency and Goodwill Industries of Southeast Iowa to inspire students with disabilities to pursue high tech careers. The program provides opportunities for students to learn…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disabilities
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1981
School year 1980-81 completed the third year of operation for the Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) and the Toward Community Growth Project, a systematic attempt at exploring careers in Iowa and at inducing Iowa's youth to seek careers closer to home following high school graduation or completion of post-secondary education/training. The…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1980
The 1979-1980 school year was the second year of operation for the Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) and the Toward Community Growth project, which was designed to provide rural Iowa high school students with occupational experience in their local areas in an effort to offset the out-migration of rural high school graduates and the lagging…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
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