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Peer reviewedHerr, Edwin L.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Studied effects of secondary school characteristics on career behavior in young adults. Found significant differences in patterns of career development by curriculum but not by sex, in certainty by curriculum and sex, and in satisfaction by neither curriculum nor sex. Comments by Donald Super and authors' response included. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Development, Adults, Career Choice
Peer reviewedLevinson, Edward M.; Ohler, Denise L.; Caswell, Steve; Kiewra, Kathleen – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1998
Discusses the construct of career maturity, and reviews research that identifies factors associated with it. Describes six measurement instruments and reviews their uses and psychometric properties. Summarizes information about these measures in two tables. Discusses issues associated with the assessment of career maturity. (Author/EMK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Change, Career Choice
Download full textKing-Fitch, Catherine C. – 1982
This manual provides a set of guidelines and suggested practices for implementing a follow-through services component in conjunction with an employment and training program. It is based in part on a 1980 study conducted by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education in which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Illinois State Dept. of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Springfield. – 1977
The Rehabilitative Skills Inventory (RSI) was developed and tested as an assessment tool to measure the proficiency of hearing impaired mentally retarded (HIMR) in several skill areas related to successful functioning in a community living facility. The areas covered are mathematics and money skills, vocational performance, vocational behavior,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Daily Living Skills
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1975
This packet of materials provides a copy of the Career and Occupational Development exercises and complete documentation about administration and scoring procedures as released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP, an information-gathering project, used these exercises to survey the educational attainments of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Choice, Career Development
Athanasou, James A. – 2000
The occupational pathways of a representative national sample of Australian school leavers were examined over a 7-year period after leaving school. The study was based on the initial vocational interests of male (n=1436) and female (n=1273) high school pupils and formed part of the longitudinal 1970 Youth in Transition study, a national…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Career Change
