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Uncertainty in Early Occupational Aspirations: Role Exploration or Aimlessness?
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Staff, Jeremy; Harris, Angel; Sabates, Ricardo; Briddell, Laine – Social Forces, 2010
Many youth in the United States lack clear occupational aspirations. This uncertainty in achievement ambitions may benefit socio-economic attainment if it signifies "role exploration," characterized by career development, continued education and enduring partnerships. By contrast, uncertainty may diminish attainment if it instead leads…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Career Development, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents
The Forgotten Middle
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Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In recent years, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of early childhood education and high school as intervention points in the educational lives of America's children. Less attention has been paid to the importance of the upper elementary grades and middle school and the role they must play in the preparation of students for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Academic Achievement
A Career Readiness Typology and Typal Membership in Middle School
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Akos, Patrick; Konold, Tim; Niles, Spencer G. – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
This study explored a career readiness typology of 629 8th-grade students using the Career Factors Inventory. Data revealed developmentally appropriate elevated needs for information, specifically self-knowledge. In addition, cluster analysis demonstrated the heterogeneity of career development needs of 8th-grade students. Typal membership…
Descriptors: Readiness, Classification, Grade 8, Measures (Individuals)
Preparing Inner-City Adolescents to Transition into High School
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Turner, Sherri L. – Professional School Counseling, 2007
The study in this article investigated how academic preparation, career development skills, parental assistance, and social/environmental barriers predicted inner-city adolescents' psychological preparation to transition into high school. Results showed that academic preparation, parents' instrumental assistance, adolescents' career development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Career Development
An Approach to Individual Analysis in Educational and Vocational Guidance. Bulletin, 1959, No. 1
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Segel, David; Wellman, Frank E.; Hamilton, Allen T. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
A substantial number of students drop out of high school at or below the tenth grade. Approximately 35 percent of those entering the ninth grade do not complete high school, and another large group goes through high school avoiding on the one hand direct training in vocational education and on the other the sequences in high school which will…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Guidance Programs, Career Guidance, School Guidance
Colorado Experience-Based Career Exploration (7-10). Final Report. Volume II: Final Evaluation Report.
Rask, Glen – 1979
The Colorado Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) model was tested in 1978-79 in three rural sites and one urban site utilizing both alternative and infused program approaches. (The modified Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory EBCE model focuses on exploration for grades 7-10.) Evaluation was designed to evaluate three program components…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Surveys