This module was developed to introduce users of norm-referenced tests (NRT) to procedures for conducting a survey of personal resources and a review of career goals and objectives, and to provide incentives and opportunities for test takers to find a personal meaning and value in the use of test results and assessment. The activities within the…

Although over 40 percent of college students in southern states receive their bachelor's degrees in liberal arts fields, the demand for those graduates in the job market is increasing at a slow rate. Colleges and universities can assist students with career development, integrating career and liberal education. Several approaches are currently…

Goals, objectives, and sample units used during Phase II of a career development project conducted by the Central Kansas Area Vocational Technical School (CKAVTS) Administrative Center to demonstrate the integration of career development in the classroom are contained in this resource handbook for grades K-12. The materials were developed by…

The purpose of the project was to develop innovative agricultural education programs within the comprehensive high school setting in selected school districts in the state of Mississippi, with the project's second year (described here) focusing on continuing existing specialized career preparation program in agriculture and continuing to orient…

The anthology on how career choices are made contains four sections. The first, "The Counselor, Counseling, and Society--How Do They All Fit Together?" contains six selections which discuss work situations and selected aspects of vocational guidance and counseling. Section 2, "Theory: Concepts and Applications," is divided into…

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 curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles to their present…

At all stages of educational growth the individual must be aided in an understanding of his strengths and weakness, his aptitudes, abilities, interests, and needs as they relate to occupational choice. The project report suggests that certain broad areas of information be made available at three levels in the elementary schools: (1) K-1-2, (2)…

This informal manual was designed to reinforce the counselor's efforts in career education guidance by offering the student materials that are realistic and current. The student is expected to accept much responsibility for his career and lifestyle development through activities and questionnaires. Part one is directed toward self-evaluation…

The author begins by overviewing some recent criticisms of the vocational guidance field: (1) too little collaboration with industrial personnel; (2) an emphasis on processing masses of people rather than on the individual; and (3) the need for a systems approach to counseling. His impressions, from the vantage point of industry (i.e. the…

This Career Education Model graphically describes and identifies six major components useful in planning, organizing, and implementing career education programs: (1) career planning and preparation, emphasizing decision making, (2) community input, (3) curriculum development by means of total staff involvement, (4) job placement, (5) self-concept,…

This compilation of ideas, sample activities, and other information has been prepared for use by classroom teachers, counselors, career education leaders, and school administrators in initiating career education programs. Section of the handbook provide: (1) a description of the career-centered curriculum, which is a curriculum designed to help…

This paper presents materials from the 29th Rutgers Guidance Conference on behavioral outcomes for career education, including the keynote address by Norman Gysbers on the concept of life career development as a new point of departure for improving and extending comprehensive career guidance programs. Three broad areas of knowledge, understanding,…

This study was conducted to: (1) identify existing practices of occupational guidance programs for Grades K-12 in Michigan, (2) recommend educational changes for the preparation of occupational guidance personnel, and (3) determine specific objectives and ways in which the Department of Industrial Education and Technology of Central Michigan…

Phase II was a field evaluation of a communication and learning system package of films, simulation games, discussion questions, and posters designed to promote career awareness in junior high school children. It was proposed that this evaluation serves as a prototype for the assessment of the effects of learning systems on the affective and…