The purpose of this study was to examine career conversations between teachers and students in competence-based vocational education in the Netherlands. A total of 32 career conversations were observed and analysed with respect to four elements: content, teacher activities, student activities and relationship. Results showed that career…

The overall objective of this study was to develop an occupational unit based on specific learning objectives and to evaluate its effectiveness as a learning experience for a class of fifth grade students. (Author)

As the guidance and counseling profession moves through the 1980s, diversity and contradictions within the profession endanger any major sense of mission. Discusses a number of separate, distinct movements that have marked the history of guidance in American education and a corresponding number of unique movements within counseling. (RC)

This publication was developed to assist school administrations, teachers, counselors, parents and others who are interested in developing guidance programs which meet the needs of adolescents particularly at the senior high school level. It describes the practices, procedures, and forms that Oregon school districts have found to be most useful in…

This study was conducted to identify and review research studies related to career guidance effects, to categorize and synthesize those findings, and to make recommendations for future practice, research, and policy. Studies selected for the review were conducted since 1970, concerned grades 9 through 14, had a sample population of 25 or more,…