A study was conducted to determine "maturity of career choices" among students through assessing the students' knowledge of the agricultural occupational information upon enrollment in joint vocational schools, and to investigate relationships between students' knowledge of agricultural occupations and selected student background,…

An important goal of vocational education is to accept the responsibility of social and economic change for the benefit of the individual as well as the broader society and to provide a meaningful curriculum for all youth. The humanizing of vocational education is to recognize that preparation for employment is the price tag of the technological…

Career clusters are part of a response to changing work and a changing workplace, a way of broadening the focus of secondary career and technical education (CTE). The following are some of the changes in work and the workplace: the nature and structure of work; leadership styles and organizational structures; the knowledge and skills needed;…

This document, which is intended for parents of Ohio students in grade 8, explains the purpose and content of the Individual Career Plan (ICP) and provides activities through which parents can help their children begin to think about career choice. The document begins with an overview of the ICP, which is a scrapbook-like document that Ohio…