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Download full textHobbs, Daryl – 1980
Recent changes in patterns of population location, industrial employment, and technology in the north central United States have produced implications for vocational education in rural areas. Missouri has greater social, cultural, demographic, and economic diversity than other states in the region, but is representative of the area for purposes of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Apprenticeships, Community Attitudes
Landers, Jack M. – 1982
Missouri's plastics industry was surveyed to identify tasks, skills, and knowledges necessary for entry into plastics-related occupations. Respondents returned 129 questionnaires. Additional information was received by telephone interviews with cooperating industries and associations. Of responding firms, St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Interviews, Job Skills
Richardson, Harold – 1978
This study was undertaken to determine the occupational opportunities available for high school students and graduates in the Northwest R-I School District of House Springs, Missouri. Specific objectives of the survey were (1) to locate possible part-time and full-time career opportunities for youth and adults, (2) to secure occupational…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Good, James D.; DeVore, Mary Ann – 1981
This model has been designed for use by Missouri secondary schools in attracting females and males into nontraditional occupational programs. The research-based strategies are intended for implementation in the following areas: attracting females into building trades, electronics, machine shop, and welding; and males into secondary health…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Allied Health Occupations, Attitude Change, Building Trades
Schwindt, Bob – 1989
The materials contained in this document are for a five-lesson course intended to introduce Missouri secondary vocational education students to many of the specialty animal enterprises available in the field of agriculture. The lessons are on speciality animal production possibilities, profitability of specialty animal enterprises, comparative…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Animal Husbandry, Animals
Usoro, Hogan – 1981
Intended for instructors serving the occupational needs of disadvantaged and handicapped students, this curriculum guide contains 21 units for an auto service program. Its purposes are to provide minimum skills for students entering the mainstream, supplement vocational skills of students already mainstreamed, and provide vocational instructional…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Guides
McDaniel, Sue P., Comp.; Krauss, Robert, Comp. – 1991
This report provides statistical analysis of women in education and the work force in Missouri along with a list of the high growth occupations in Missouri. A chart shows that the percentage of high school graduates that are women has remained at about 50% for 10 years. Although there are noted decreases in the number of computer science,…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Demand Occupations, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Herd, Amon – 1981
Intended for instructors serving the occupational needs of disadvantaged and handicapped students, this curriculum guide contains 16 units for a small engine maintenance program. Its purposes are to provide minimum skills of students already mainstreamed, and provide vocational instructional materials for the modified classroom. Teachers should…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Careers
Montgomery, Travis – 1974
One of several investigations comprising a study of students' needs related to school vocational services in a three-county area, the document reports the results of a survey designed to include all senior high school teachers in 10 schools. The questionnaire is a 21-item instrument developed to provide information on the extent to which teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Area Studies, Career Education, Career Opportunities
Andrews, Earl Raymond – 1968
To assess the status of and need for vocational-industrial education within Jefferson county, and to provide a more objective basis for program and curriculum development, data were gathered on (1) employment opportunities within the labor market area, (2) student interests in vocational-industrial education, and (3) the financial potential of the…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs
Timko, Joseph J.; Birkenholz, Robert J. – 1988
This student reference on agricultural business, designed to accompany the lessons outlined in the 1984 instructor's guide, "Introduction to Agricultural Business," has seven lessons: (1) introduction to agribusiness; (2) careers in agribusiness; (3) agribusiness in the community; (4) the role of the employee in an agribusiness; (5)…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Business Administration Education
Rickman, Louise – 1987
This curriculum guide was developed to update information that is crucial to business and office students as they examine career possibilities and go about the job-seeking process. New information in the areas of job descriptions, career terminology, statistics related to career opportunities, placement, and careers with high rates of projected…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Career Choice, Career Education
