The Oklahoma exemplary program located at Tulsa was designed to provide occupational orientation and vocational training for disadvantaged and previously unserved students from Grade 5 through 12 in a comprehensive urban school system. To evaluate the program, data were collected about the: (1) contest or goals and objectives of the program in…

Described in the report are the activities and accomplishments of a 3-year K-14 career education project serving over 21,000 students in 12 independent school districts, one parochial school, and a junior college. The project was composed of six components: Planning and implementation, occupational awareness (K-6), occupational investigation…

Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a statewide computerized career information delivery system for secondary school students. Counselors believed it was superior to traditional information sources. Clients expressed satisfaction with amount of information and interaction mode. (Author/BL)

The Boeing Company contracted with the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory to evaluate its student internship program, part of a "school-to-work" effort modeled after the nationally recognized Tech Prep initiative. The company's involvement in the Tech Prep Program has been implemented in three phases: (1) the initial phase helped…

The Medical-Counseling, Organizing, and Recruiting (Med-COR) program is a project sponsored jointly by the University of California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles Unified School District. The program, which was organized to serve 4 inner city schools, has expanded to serve 42 middle schools and 34 high schools. The Med-COR programs major…

The Medical-Counseling, Organizing, and Recruiting (Med-COR) program is a project sponsored by the University of California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide career information and experience in the health professions for middle school and high school students. This study evaluated the impact of the Med-COR…

AVA Program of Work for 1971 urges all vocational educators, working together through their local, state and national professional associations, to join in answering this question. (Editor)

Participants showed low drop-out rates and high levels of expressed satisfaction; were likelier to engage in extracurricular health-related activities; studied and trained more; explored more before making an employment choice; and showed higher levels of job satisfaction, higher earnings, and less turnover. (Author)

The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) established an alternative education system to comply with a 1976 desegregation court order. This system was composed of vanguards (grades 4-6), academies (grades 7-8), and magnet high schools (grades 9-12). These schools were expected to attract a student population which would reflect the ethnic mix…

As a supplement to the standard in-school high school curriculum, the Executive High School Internship Program provides experiential learning opportunities for gifted high school students. The program focuses on management-level field placements through which participants learn to make decisions, interact with the world-of-work, and assume…

This report represents a goal based evaluation study of the School Without Walls, an alternative career education program for 11th and 12th grade students in the Atlanta, Georgia public school system. A questionnaire consisting of 19 items based on a five-point rating scale was used to assess program effectiveness according to student attitudes…

The report provides a summary of the independent, third party evaluation of the 1972-73 funding year of the Guided Occupational Orientation Project of the Syracuse City School District. A systems approach to evaluation was utilized in this effort. The funded project involved all three grade populations--elementary, junior high school, and senior…

The document is comprised of (1) a series of reports evaluating a SUTOE (Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration) career education pilot project conducted in an Oregon City (Oregon) junior high school and (2) sample curriculum guides from that project. A brief project overview, emphasizing the interdisciplinary, team approach employed,…

The activities of the second year of a career education project in the South Portland School are reported in the document which covers the time period of July 1974 to June 1975. The project consisted of a career awareness component for grade levels K-6, a career orientation component for levels 7 and 8, a career exploration phase for grade 9, and…

The three-year project was designed to plan, test, and implement a comprehensive career education program in grades K-12 in 14 schools. Implementation strategy was organized in three phases: teacher awareness, development of curriculum materials, and classroom implementation. Specific objectives were developed for each of the three phases for each…