The following 14 papers, with abstracts and references, are compiled in this conference proceedings: "Exploring the Roles and Duties of Vocational Special Needs Educators" (Melanie Fagert); "Professional Competencies for Provisionally Licensed Career and Technical Education Teachers in Virginia" (Betty Heath-Camp, Daisy L. Stewart and William G. Camp); "Differences Between Faculty and Students' Perception of Recruitment Techniques that Influence Students to Attend Four-year Automotive Programs" (Gregory Belcher and Robert Frisbee); "The Status of Preservice Education in Career and Technology Education" (Thomas H. Bruening, Dennis C. Scanlon and Carol L. Hodes); "A Description of the Occurrence and Impact of Alternate Forms of Assistance Provided to Beginning Agricultural Education Teachers by Minnesota School Districts" (Richard Joerger and Glenn Boettcher); "A Comparison of Diskette and Paper and Pencil Mail-Out Survey Methods for Measuring Self-Directed Learning with the BISL [Bartlett-Kotrlik Inventory of Self-Learning]" (James Bartlett, II); "Factors Influencing A Student's Perception of the Image of a Career and Technical Education Student Organization" (Barry Croom and James Flowers); "Factors Influencing a Student's Perception of the Programs and Services Offered by a Career and Technical Education Student Organization" (Barry Croom and James Flowers); "Vocational Aspirations, Work-related Experiences, and Early Career Choice Patterns of Work-Bound Youth During Early Adolescence" (Jay Rojewski); "Underlying Factors Related to Teaching Effectiveness as Perceived by Apprenticeship Trainers" (Howard Gordon); "Beyond the Success of the Students: Effects of Participation on School-to-Career Partners" (Keith MacAllum and Ivan Charner); "Global Human Resource Development: Cultural Influences on the Delivery of Executive Development Programs" (Bob R. Stewart and Tzu-Feng Marlene Lin); and "Teachers in the Future: Retaining Secondary Business and Marketing Education Teachers" (Sheila Ruhland). (KC)