The author describes components of a sex-fairness activity that he developed in his schools: OINK (Observed Interest in Negating Knowledge), an instrument to show students their own sex bias; sex-based language discussion; transparencies identifying sex bias on television and elsewhere; and freedom training, a film on nontraditional vocations for…

Relevant vocational exploratory programs are needed at the junior high school level. (GB)

To make the junior high/middle school curriculum more responsive to early adolescents, Illinois teachers evolved the ACT curriculum. Its three missions are applied academics, career exploration, and technological literacy, organized around themes relevant to the lives of young people. (SK)

Evaluates a technology education program designed to provide mastery experiences described in self-efficacy theory and predicted to improve career decision-making of seventh- and eighth-grade students (N=169). Pre- and post-test instruments assessed technical/scientific self-efficacy and career interest. Although measures showed a greater valuing…

The Improving Vocational Guidance and Counseling through Career Awareness, Orientation and Exploration summer program was developed to provide a 3-week career awareness and exploration program for teacher-recommended disadvantaged minority middle school students from the Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. A total of 18 African, African-American,…

This first in a series of six teaching modules on self-awareness is part of the Special Partnership in Career Education (SPICE) program, which was designed to provide career awareness and exploration information to junior high-aged educable mentally handicapped students. The module follows a typical format that includes two major sections:…

This sixth in a series of six teaching modules on employability skills is part of the Special Partnership in Career Education (SPICE) program, which was designed to provide career awareness and exploration information to junior high-aged educable mentally handicapped students. The module follows a typical format that includes two major sections:…

This fourth in a series of six teaching modules on decision making/beginning competency is part of the Special Partnership in Career Education (SPICE) program, which was designed to provide career awareness and exploration information to junior high-aged educable mentally handicapped students. The module follows a typical format that includes two…

This fifth in a series of six modules on economic awareness is part of the Special Partnership in Career Education (SPICE) program, which was designed to provide career awareness and exploration information to junior high-aged educable mentally handicapped students. The module follows a typical format that includes two major sections: overview and…

The purpose of the Special Partnership in Career Education (SPICE) project was to design a practical, replicable, transportable career exploration curriculum for junior high-aged educable mentally handicapped students. Six career education modules and a guide for integrating career education into an existing curriculum were developed. The six…

The director of a recently completed curriculum development project describes the project's need for product criteria to serve as guidelines for materials development. The background and context for criteria development involved the need to reconceptualize and redesign the contents and methods of career exploration activities envisioned for junior…

This booklet is the second in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are to learn how to use the Dewey Decimal system and demonstrate this knowledge by completing a series of exercises and tests.…

This booklet is the fifth in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are to demonstrate mastery of the use of the Readers' Guide and to reinforce skills in finding periodicals by performing hands-on…

This booklet is the sixth in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objective of this unit is to demonstrate knowledge of the history and format of periodicals by answering questions and performing practical exercises…

This booklet is the seventh in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are for the student to be able to (1) list ten parts of a book, (2) demonstrate knowledge of the function of each part, and (3)…