The report covers the second year of a three-year project to develop a career education continuum for grades K-14 in participating Pennsylvania school districts. Emphasis was on dissemination procedures to schools for the major project components: curriculum infusion for grades 1-8, Singer Carrels exploratory component for grades 6-8, career…

This report is addressed principally to college personnel who may have direct program responsibilities or who may otherwise have an impact upon the development of cooperative education. The aim of this report is twofold: first, to describe the research undertaken by the staff of Northeastern University Cooperative Education Research Center…

This document contains several short papers which cover various aspects of career education. The need for and elements of career development programs are discussed by R.M. Worthington in "Career Development for All," while G. Law, Jr., defines simulations, discusses their advantages, and presents examples in "Simulations and Career…

The work experience career exploration program (WECEP), a junior high school alternative education program for potential school dropouts, was implemented at Ben Franklin Junior High School in the Fargo, North Dakota, school district during the 1975-76 school year. Patterned after vocational education cooperative work experience programs, WECEP is…

This article attempts to evaluate current materials and techniques employed in career guidance programs and finds a need for greater personalization of the guidance process. Recommendations for improvement are made and it is noted that school counselors must improve their career guidance activities or school counseling will cease being functional.…

The Michigan Career Preparation system is designed to prepare students for higher education and successful competition in the job market by giving students opportunities to explore a variety of careers throughout their K-12 education. Specific goals of the system include ensuring that: (1) Career preparation is fully integrated into the Michigan…

Describes the development of an office simulation program at a California high school. The program also permits career exploration at business offices in the town in the student's area of interest. The article also discusses a followup study of program graduates, who were overwhelmingly supportive of the program. (CT)

The Warm Springs Career Exploration Project (WSCEP) is an adaptation of experience-based career education (EBCE) for Native Americans residing on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The project served as a full-time program for American Indian students aged 16-19 who had dropped out of school, and also served as a part-time career development…

Written in a simple question/answer format, this manual is designed to assist educators in locating information on how to develop and implement a career education program in a rural area. Chapter I gives a historical overview of the career education program in the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative area. Chapter II details the various…

The purpose of the Career Education Program in the Paint Valley Local School District (Ohio) was to provide career education experiences for students in the district that would enable them to make valid decisions in relation to career education based upon a sundry of planned vocational experiences provided by the district staff and project…

The activities of the first 6 months of a project designed to help 27 emotionally disturbed and learning disabled adolescent boys (ages 14 to 16) overcome the handicapping conditions which render them unemployable are reported. Successful aspects of the program were the career education, community based career development, and volunteer work…

An intensified Career Exploration Program was evaluated through an analysis of the cognitive and affective learning resulting from ninth- and tenth-grade students' participation in the program. Designed to supplement the existing ninth- and tenth-grade components of the Ohio Career Development Program, this three-year program offered additional…

Evaluation of the CETA/EBCE (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act/Experience Based Career Education) Field Learning Program at eight sites in Montana showed the program to be successful in helping high school students explore careers. The system was generally successful in achieving program outcome objectives: varied types of students were…

This report describes the third party evaluation of the State Fair Community College Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program. Experience based career education students and control students were compared using both locally developed instruments and standardized measures. Standardized measures inlcude the Career Development Inventory,…

This paper reports on phase one of the evaluation of a career information center established in a secondary school as a demonstration projects. The evaluation is based on a questionnaire developed to probe students' views regarding future planning, and to ascertain what plans they themselves were making. Interviews were also conducted to gain…