This resource unit was written as a guide for career exploration in Grades 9 and 10. Students at these levels need the opportunity to explore their capabilities in a wide variety of occupational situations, and secondary school curriculum should provide occupational experiences to enable them to make realistic occupational choices by gaining an…

A West Virginia Project revised instruments and processes and developed procedural guidelines for evaluating prevocational exploration programs. Evaluation processes were initiated during the 1978-79 school year, when Berkeley, Fayette, and Ritchie counties entered their third year of this program for ninth and tenth grade students. Instruments…

This competency-based curriculum for prevocational exploration in West Virginia provides experiences at grades 9 and 10 related to exploring careers and educational programs for those careers. The guidance units are designed to assist the counselor in providing activities that relate to ongoing hands-on activities in prevocational business,…