The study investigated the predictive utility of interest profile differentiation, coherence, elevation, congruence, and vocational identity commitment and career maturity (career planning and exploration) on the 10-month interest stability of 292 Swiss eighth-grade students: profile, rank, and level stabilities were assessed. Controlling for…

Chance events are considered important in career development, yet little empirical research is available on their predictors and consequences. The present study investigated socio-demographic (gender, nationality, school-type), personality (openness, locus of control) and career development variables (career decidedness, career planning) in…

The Readiness for Vocational Planning Scale was used to identify vocational behavior objectives and to evaluate the effectiveness of a revised eighth grade curriculum. (Author)

Research has shown that African American adolescents are not being prepared to enter the workforce at the same rates as adolescents from other ethnic groups. While educational and career options were unavailable to African Americans in previous eras, today educational and career opportunities abound, yet many young African Americans are not in a…

Examines gender differences in rural eighth-grade students' curricular, career, and lifestyle expectations. Girls expect to take more math classes in high school, select careers that require a college education, and plan to go to college more frequently than do boys. Girls prefer occupations that involve people, whereas boys prefer occupations…

This occupational investigation guide contains learning activities for instruction in educational planning. Activities included in the guide focus on areas such as (1) reinforcing learning, (2) isolating significant life experiences, (3) establishing goals, (4) classifying goals, (5) planning life goals, (6) practicing decision-making, (7) solving…

The grade 8 curriculum guide contains four lessons covering the career preparation knowledge, skills, and self-knowledge domains and is designed to introduce students to careers in physical education. Each lesson includes a goal, performance objective, activities and outcome measure. The overall goal is for the students to acquire knowledge of…

The supplement to the Career Orientation Curriculum Guide: 7-8 provides actual units of instruction which have been utilized in career orientation programs throughout the State of Ohio. In general, the units contain teacher and student objectives, student activities, teaching procedures, information on career opportunities in specific fields, and…

Two national surveys (one administered to 18,129 students in 1973 and the other administered to 15,432 students in 1983) collected data concerning such indicators of the career development of junior and senior high school students as reactions to career guidance services and career planning involvement. Whereas 78 percent of the 11th graders would…

The career orientation phase attempts to link the elementary program of attitudes and awareness of work to the senior high program of individual exploration of selected careers. This six-week unit, part of the eighth grade social studies curriculum, is designed to familiarize the students with various occupations, to prepare them for high school…

The career orientation program exposes students to specific jobs and occupations within the 15 U. S. Office of Education job clusters and continues the emphasis on seven, broad, student-centered career development components begun in the K-6 portion of the program. A plan is proposed whereby the 15 clusters are covered in the teachers' area of…

This tentative student workbook provides occupational guidance for students in Grades 7, 8, and 9 by means of nine units focusing on self appraisal, general educational and vocational awareness, and specific career and school planning. A wide variety of worksheets includes reading materials, tests, vocabulary lists, games, check lists, and…

The 10 activities in the unit on art careers attempt to provide eighth and ninth grade students with opportunities for acquiring occupational information, to help students discover themselves in relation to art careers, and to explore various clusters of careers. The suggested occupational areas are: architecture, product design, cartooning,…

Developed by the Cincinnati Public Schools as part of a project designed to provide career orientation for students in grades 7 and 8, this manual is designed to provide activities and information concerning the infusion of seven career developmental areas in the curriculum. These developmental areas include self, individual and environment, the…

Career orientation in the science curriculum introduces students to science-related careers and opportunities and enables them to prepare an educational program if they choose a science career. The curriculum guide is designed to aid junior high school science teachers in relating the seventh and eighth grade science curriculum to careers in…