This final report of the Career Development Project focuses on implementation of a career model to enhance the transition of college students with disabilities from college to professional employment through training of both students and professionals and development of informational and technical materials regarding career development and job…

Cross-cultural sex differences in achievement and career motivation of 432 Iranian and U.S. high school and college students were obtained by a multiple level generalizability perspective. The independent variables were culture, sex, age, family socialization, academic self-concept, home self-concept, social self-concept, perceived community…

Elizabeth College has been historically a traditional liberal arts institution in the career-oriented programs of business, education, and more recently the health professions. In 1972, the faculty adopted a new nontraditional educational program primarily for adults, called the Center for Community Education. The purpose of the Center was to…

The paper deals with the question of whether counselors can work with a large group of students and effectively aid them with their vocational development and, if so, what approach would produce the best results. Undecided students at Brigham Young University were selected to attend College Orientation 96, a course designed to help them choose…

Examines attitudes about careers and gender roles for 156 college students from the United States, 621 from Japan, and 157 from Slovenia. A factor analysis indicates that career values form different factors within each country and gender. In all three countries, women are less traditional in gender role attitudes than men. (SLD)

The Alternative Learners Project of College Misericordia (Pennsylvania) assisted nine high schools in preparing students with learning disabilities for college. The project involved school staff training; school site visits; and a four-year program of student activities in self-awareness, career awareness, assessment, planning, programming, parent…

This study of students' community college experience found that two students with mental retardation differed from two nondisabled students in their not having grown up with an expectation of attending college and in a lack of career and transition planning. All students reported positive social and interpersonal experiences, but had not developed…

A survey investigated the attitudes and preferences of business administration students concerning college courses in international business and job assignments abroad. Respondents were from 13 regional business schools, broadly distributed in the United States. All were public institutions. Questions elicited information about student…

The National Institute of Education supported a program of basic research studies dealing with career decision-making processes among high school and college students and the career experiences of youthful workers from 1976 through 1979. The 11 studies funded under this grants competition are diverse. Some examine the experiences of secondary…

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…

Differences were studied in the job status, stability, and satisfaction of recent four-year college graduates with varying lengths of attendance at two-year institutions. The administrative and research implications of these results are discussed. (Author/MLW)

This study explores the applicability of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSE) to Chinese college students. The reliability and validity of the scale are examined using two independent samples (128 students from a polytechnic institute and 157 students from a teacher's college in China). The results indicate that the CDMSE is…

The Atlantic Centre of Support for Disabled Students, created at Saint Mary's University (Nova Scotia) under the Centres of Specialization Program, works to ensure that students with disabilities have equal opportunity to fully participate in the educational process and gain access to appropriate careers through direct service, community…

Reviews research and appraises the state of career development counseling for African-American college students, evaluating progress in approaches aimed at enhancing the employment success of African Americans. Inadequacies of current career development theories are recognized, and suggestions are made for black role models, parent involvement,…

The purpose of this research was to relate perceptions of occupational discrimination to the actual occupational opportunity structure in American society. The latter refers to the relative openness of various occupations to individuals possessing certain characteristics that are, in fact, differentially distributed among occupations. Both cohorts…