Progress toward four stated objectives in a K-12 career education project was determined after examining the field testing results of students, interviews, and data analysis. Satisfactory progress was made toward objective 1: revising, expanding, and refining two computer retrieval career education units. On a developer questionnaire teachers…

The System of Planned Activities in Career Education (SPACE) project was undertaken (1) to create a meaningful, cooperative effort between the area vocational technical school and the sending schools for the purpose of expanding career education to meet the needs of all children and (2) to establish a system to serve as a model for implementing…

A study of high school work experience programs was designed to explore the work environment in regard to employer policies, practices, processes and program ingredients to gauge their impact on high school student workers during the school-to-work transition. Two work experience programs were analyzed (North Terrytown, New York, and in Newark,…

An evaluation of the Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCEBCE) for summer, 1977, was conducted to provide preliminary information for the three-year program effort to use in program planning and decision making for the 1977-78 school year. DCEBCE was evaluated using the Context, Input,…

An evaluation was conducted on the first year operations (academic 1976-77) of an experienced based career education (EBCE) project designed for tenth grade students from Weber County School District (Utah) and ninth and tenth grade students from Morgan County School District (Utah). Students were pre- and posttested in the areas of career skills,…

A project designed to develop a business ownership and management curriculum to be used at the prevocational and exploratory grade levels (grades 7-9) is reported in four sections. Section 1 contains an overview of the project. Section 2 presents the procedures, which involved the establishment of the research concept and curriculum model, the…

This document contains the appendixes to the final report of the Occupational Competence Access Project (OCAP), a study conducted to facilitate student access to (1) occupational opportunities through the provision of a guidance system incorporating student capabilities; (2) occupational opportunities through the provision of industrially…

The 3-year exemplary project whose overall objective was the establishment of comprehensive career-centered activities for grades 1 through 12, is described in this report. The introductory section presents a summary of the project which outlines goals and objectives and procedures (administrative structure, developing community support, awareness…

The Precollege Summer Camp Opportunity for Potential Educators (SCOPE) project was a minority recruitment and retention program designed to attract academically challenged tenth and eleventh grade students into teaching careers in mathematics and science. This three-year project offered a six-week summer camp for 50 precollege minority students in…

These proceedings contain 46 papers presented at a summer workshop on vocational guidance. The first two papers, presented at general sessions, deal with equal access/sex equity and problems in Vocational Education Data System reports. The remaining 44 presentations are divided into these nine categories (with representative topics): testing (the…

The present project was designed to continue the preparation of a course of study useful for developing secondary level bookkeeping/accounting instruction. The course of study is intended to (1) derive vocational instruction for students with varying career goals, (2) develop accounting-oriented career exploration units for Introduction to…

This report of the first-year operations of project REAL (Relevant Experiences for Alternative Learning), an experience based career education (EBCE) project based on the EBCE model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories, is presented in four parts. (The three broad characteristics of Project REAL follow: student-centered and…

A project was conducted during 1974-76 to help meet the career awareness, orientation, and exploration needs of Native American youth in grades 7, 8, and 9. Activities included gathering information on Native American career education needs and surveying existing career education materials. Based on that information, twelve instructional units…

The Occupational Competence Access Project (OCAP) was conducted to facilitate student access to (1) occupational opportunities through the provision of a guidance system incorporating student capabilities; (2) occupational opportunities through the provision of industrially validated exploratory programs in occupational preparation; and (3)…

An operational blueprint for health career education and training was designed to provide the District of Columbia public schools with a documented strategy for implementing a comprehensive, multifocal health careers program. The blueprint will establish a mechanism for interagency communication and cooperation at all levels, involving all aspects…