Presents case studies of three science majors who decided to enter teacher education after participating in a classroom teaching assistant project. Finds that some academically talented science majors can be positively influenced to teach by direct work with students, opportunities to earn teacher certification with the science major, and frequent…

Career-Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) uses a comprehensive assessment battery to help clients explore their roles, developmental stages and tasks, career attitudes and knowledge, value, and interests within their unique life contexts. Recommends elaborating C-DAC model to formally appraise cultural identity and to coincide identity…

Discusses perceptions of liberal arts students of Georgetown University who felt that the university's career center did not address their career service needs. Describes the steps taken by the career center's administration to make the center equally useful for all students. (SNR)

Examined a program which had adolescent, male, minority students mentor elementary students and encouraged them to consider teaching careers. Investigated how adolescents' perceptions intersected with elementary schools' structural constraints. Data from observations, interviews, and focus groups revealed the value to the mentors of their…

A survey of 166 youth in the California Conservation Corps (CCC) examined the use of the CCC for career development. Thirty percent of those surveyed had not completed high school. About one-fourth of respondents hoped CCC would lead to a permanent career, but most had joined to develop their job skills and explore career opportunities. (TD)

This article describes several initiatives in which Creative Problem Solving, in combination with career exploration and mentoring, has been used successfully to identify and develop the talents of "at-risk" populations. During the past decade, the Lost Prizes project helped turn around the lives of talented but troubled high-school…

Reforms funded by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) were enacted to help USA students learn career-related skills and prepare for entry into careers or post-secondary education. Information about the effectiveness of these reforms is critical to address students' career preparation needs and inform future policy. Yet few quantitative…

Investigated career exploration in two studies using longitudinal design. Work-role salience was significantly related to beliefs in the instrumentality of exploration and the importance of obtaining one's preferred position. Exploration instrumentalities and the importance of obtaining one's preferred position were significantly related to…

The author discusses five predictable stages of development in transition counseling. They include comfort (reassurances about self-worth and identity); reflection (exploration and understanding); clarification (with respect to career and self); direction (exploring possible life/career directions); and perspective shift (putting the transition in…

Studied conditions and consequences, the characteristics of agentic (volitional, teleological) human behavior in investigations of weight control, vocational exploration, and eating disorders. Demonstrated the ability of individuals professing eating and exercise problems, to exhibit control; and in separate study examining personality factors and…

FEMME (Females in Engineering, Methods, Motivation, Experience) is a pre-college summer program for 25 bright and gifted ninth-grade females who like mathematics and science. This program, now in its fourth year, is described, providing information about program goals, operation, trips, student laboratory experiments, and topics discussed by guest…

Discusses three issues of concern in journalism: working hard to keep high school journalism as an academic college preparatory course in every state; persuading the best young high school writers that journalism careers offer them rewarding lives; and joining professional journalists and journalism educators in the movement to increase the number…

Describes the development of an office simulation program at a California high school. The program also permits career exploration at business offices in the town in the student's area of interest. The article also discusses a followup study of program graduates, who were overwhelmingly supportive of the program. (CT)

Investigated effects of internship and classroom experiences in a college cooperative education program. Both groups increased in incorporation for prospective occupation. For the classroom group, the increase in incorporation for prospective occupation was significantly greater than for second-choice occupation. There was no difference for the…

Suggests teaching career exploration in the secondary general business class by having students bring in pictures of occupations, assemble them into a collage on a poster or bulletin board, and then study some of the occupations in depth to determine competencies, abilities, interests, and aspirations. (MF)