It appears that successful forestry students are active, outdoor types, and masculine in their interests. They are stable and intellectually competent, especially quantitatively, and if they take their preforestry in the university setting in which they ultimately do their forestry training, they are more likely to meet with success than if they…

While both whites and nonwhites have similarly high aspirations, study results show positive linkage between class and community size, and actual expectation. These factors may significantly discourage the development of high level vocational plans of capable adolescents from rural, lower class environments. (CJ)

Studied validity of the Career Decision Scale (CDS) for use by high school counselors in identifying students needing career services. Results showed that the construct or factor validity of an adapted CDS did not support its use as a measure of different components of educational/vocational indecision. (WAS)

Discusses the military service as a career choice for women. Notes problems of women competing with men in traditionally male activities and examines implications for the counseling profession. Notes publications describing military training programs and educational opportunities. (RC)

The validities of two popular procedures for reporting interest inventory scores, one of which provides sex-stereotypic career suggestions, are compared in a longitudinal study of employed college graduates. Results of the study bear directly on the question of whether sex-restrictive interest reports can be justified on the basis of superior…

Article discusses a career development program which was planned and implemented in a small rural high school. (Author)

This study investigates the relation of varying amounts of career information on levels of career choices of seventh-grade students. (Author)

The study made for this article sought to determine the effects of selected social and environmental variables on the choice of major and career plans of women possessing high quantitative aptitude. (Author)

Examined attitudes toward home and career commitment among male and female college preparatory and vocational education high school seniors (N=141). Results indicated male and female students from the two curricula differed on the sex stereotype and prestige level of career choices but not in homemaking or career commitment. (Author/BL)

This article describes refinements in an occupational family structure based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the General Aptitude Test Battery that enhance the structure's value in counseling. (Author)

Structured, short-term group counseling resulted in vocational choices for 14 of 17 college freshmen who had declared themselves undecided. (Author)

Differences in responses to personality items between subjects who prefer job security and low earnings and those who prefer high risk and high income jobs suggest basic and generalized differences in life style. (Author)

Describes procedures and applications for translating the scores from vocational interest inventories into regions on a world-of-work map. Suggests the procedure can be used in both vocational guidance and research to provide a basis for better understanding of vocational choice and development. (JAC)

Attempts to determine the careers gifted females and males are planning, reasons for these choices, and the aspects they consider most important in a job. Addresses whether gifted females enter traditionally male fields in numbers comparable to gifted males. Results showed both chose a variety of jobs. (RC)

Identified criterion variables known to be related to educational-vocational indecision. Determined if unique relationships existed between factor structure on the Career Decision Scale (CDS) adapted for graduate students and the criterion variables. Results suggested that factor scores of the CDS measure essentially equivalent components of…