Reports on a research study which applies Harren's model of careers decision-making process to gauge the impact of vocational identity, attitudinal careers maturity, school adjustment, and decision-making styles on the careers decision-making process. Found that vocational identity had the strongest direct effect while school adjustment had no…

Compared control group and two career interventions designed to enhance career maturity of Puerto Rican women in special college admissions program. Found no significant differences between two experimental treatments in terms of career maturity or locus of control. Findings suggest such interventions can facilitate positive changes in career…

One hundred thirteen undergraduates completed measures of career decision-making (CDM) self-efficacy, career locus of control, CDM attitudes, and CDM skills. Results proved the self-efficacy theory superior to the locus of control model in predicting college students' CDM attitudes. No significant gender differences emerged among the variables.…

A survey compared the career development and vocational maturity of 26 New Zealand adolescents with deafness and their hearing peers. Significant differences were identified between the two groups on career measures. In particular, adolescents with hearing impairments were identified as having less career awareness. Gender differences were also…

Prospective teachers in early field placements may gradually develop more mature concerns for pupils if they are given opportunities to reflect upon classroom experience. This study provides information concerning a reflective inquiry model compatible with early field placement. Participants were 12 student teachers engaged in classroom teaching…

Differences in preparing teachers' orientations to the profession and their career goals and aspirations were examined as a function of their life stages and ages. Intensive interviews were conducted before and after the student teaching experience. Half of the student teachers were classified as returning students or adult learners. The other…

A study examined the effects of locus of control and sex role orientation on career maturity and also the correlation between level of career maturity and level of femininity. The study sample consisted of 61 undergraduate junior and senior women from a large southwestern university. Half of them were married, and their average length of work…

A model career education program for physically disabled students in grades K through 12 was designed, implemented, and evaluated at Human Resources School (HRS), a school for the physically disabled, in Albertson, New York. The major objectives of this program are to enhance development of students' self concept, decisionmaking ability, and…

The report focuses on the development of measurement instruments and criteria for forming statements about student attributes which should result from career education. Two measurement instruments (the Assessment of Career Development and Career Maturity Inventory) were tested on approximately 15,000 9th and 11th graders in Texas. Questionnaires…

This study was designed to study the effect of locus of control on the career maturity of a cross-section of age groups. The effects of race and sex were also studied. The Career Development Responsibility Scale (Thomas, l974), the Career Maturity Inventory Attitude Scale (Crites, 1973), and a measure of socioeconomic status were employed to…

Since the spring semester of 1974, the Work Experience Program has been operating in a number of secondary schools in Vancouver, British Columbia. This report is a survey of opinions from students, employers, parents and teachers regarding various aspects of the Work Experience Program. The purpose of the program is not to create job skills as…

This paper reviews existing manpower training programs in light of the dual labor market theory, and discusses the implications for community colleges in addressing the needs of the unemployed within their service areas. The dual labor market theory postulates that there are two distinct spheres of employment: a primary labor market in which…

The Children's Adaptive Behavior Scale is described, and statistics based on children aged 6 through 10 with IQ's 50 to 89 are presented to show the relationship of scores to chronological age, the low relationship with intelligence, and the negligible relationship with race or sex. (CTM)

The extent to which locus of control as a general expectancy model relates to career maturity was measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (Crites) and the Career Development Inventory (Super and Forrest). The most striking finding was the career maturity advantage of the internally oriented student. (MF)

This study, with 205 junior high school students (43 of whom were gifted), found that gifted students perceived fewer career barriers than did regular students and that gifted boys expressed a greater need for occupational information and a greater range of occupational aspirations than did gifted girls or nongifted students. (Author/DB)