Focusing on occupational clusters of transportation and communications, this unit entitled "Telephone Workers" is one of four grade one units which are part of a total set of twenty-seven career development curriculum units for grades K-6. This unit is organized into four sections. Section 1 identifies one career development-centered…

One of a series of manuals developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the publication presents the processes involved in reviewing and compiling information about educational, training, and supportive resources for career-related materials for adults. Principal focus is on materials created by the project's information…

The publication presents both a shelf collection list and a series of annotated bibliographies on selected topics in the collection of the resource center of the Education Development Center's home- and community-based career education project (one of the National Institute of Education's four career education models). It is intended as a guide…

During the 1967-1968 academic year an experimental program of classroom instruction in vocational information and career selection was introduced in selected secondary schools. Data were obtained by testing students in the experimental and control groups by administering pre and posttest instruments which focused on four major areas: (1) knowledge…

This document accompanied a request from the Atlanta Public Schools to the United States Office of Education for a Title III continuation grant which would enable that school system to continue an innovative program intended to develop, compile and disseminate appropriate occupational information for elementary school age children. The report is…

The Stanford Career Planning Project designed and tested the effectiveness of three competing experimental treatments for promoting career exploration in adolescents. They were: (1) group structured stimulus materials, (2) group social modeling, and (3) a combination of the two. Planned stimulus materials were prepared and used in four group…

Prepared by elementary teachers during a summer workshop, this curriculum guide is designed to aid teachers in integrating career development experiences into the elementary curriculum. The learning activities for Grades K-5 and special education students are intended to help students develop an understanding of themselves and the world of work…

The document presents a program of career development groups initiated in a university setting to meet the increasing demand for vocational counseling, as well as from a general discontent with traditional one-to-one individual counseling. Structured exercises were designed to actively involve participants in occupational information--seeking…

This is the tenth monograph in the Vocational Development Study (VDS) series which has resulted from a continuing research effort conducted in the Department of Vocational Education at Pennsylvania State University. While the focus of the VDS Project is to develop a greater understanding of the vocational development process using longitudinal…

The research reported in this monograph was conducted as a part of the longitudinal Vocational Development Study (VDS) undertaken by the Department of Vocational Education at Pennsylvania State University. The purpose of this project is to conduct ongoing longitudinal research focused upon uncovering the effects of the senior high school…

The second interim report of the Watertown, South Dakota, public schools career development project covers the year ending September 13, 1972. This second year continued program development and implementation and began dissemination of project information. Individual development was emphasized in the elementary and junior high programs, with…

This guide presents the primary approaches, tools, and techniques utilized by the New Careers Training Laboratory (NCTL) staff to provide skills in training and to conduct agency task analyses. Much of the technical information has been taken from an earlier NCTL publication by Tita Beal, "A New Careers Guide for Career Development…

The concept of purpose underlies the development of the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD), which incorporates a computer-based interactive information system intended to facilitate realization of purpose. This report clarifies the psychological theory of the ISVD in a discussion of the evaluation of individual purpose and the…

Investigated developmental patterns in the way in which students in grades 5-12 describe five common occupations. Students (N=544) responded to five occupational titles with or without an accompanying occupational description. Results indicated that provision of an occupational description influenced responses, particularly at lower grade levels.…