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Peer reviewedEgner, Joan Roos; Jackson, Dorothy Jeremiah – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
A career decision-making model and program were developed to provide a counseling intervention and teaching materials to aid students in improving their career maturity and decision-making skills. Data indicated that students in the program significantly increased their caree maturity scores. (Author/MFD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Decision Making Skills
Rodgers, Ronald C.; Lee, Margaret B. – 1976
Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and Super and Forrest's Career Development Inventory (CDI) are recommended in the their respective manuals for use with secondary school students regardless of academic ability. Scores on both instruments for 245 suburban high school seniors in this investigation were well below reported means.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Career Choice, Career Development
Neely, Margery A. – 1978
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,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Colleges
Download full textShively, Joe E.; Watts, Rebecca – 1977
The goal of the Conecuh County (Alabama) project was to successfully implement an experience-based career education (EBCE) program based on the model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, whcih integrates academic requirements and work experience opportunities into a comprehensive curriculum. To determine program effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Shively, Joe E.; Davis, Carolyn S. – 1979
The goal of the Conecuh County (Alabama) project was to successfully implement an Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program based on the model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, which integrates academic requirements and work experience opportunities into a comprehensive curriculum. To determine program effectiveness at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Rhode Island Univ., Kingston. Curriculum Research and Development Center. – 1978
The Rhode Island Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) project served high school juniors and seniors in seven communities by offering career exploration activities, career counseling, and academic instruction. (The academic component was not implemented in all participating schools.) The project sought to increase the career maturity, career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1978
The Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program at J. L. Mann High School (Greenville, South Carolina) was designed to provide enrolled students with community-based career experiences and to make the career resource room a focal point for career education for all students and teachers in the school. An individualized course of instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Employer Attitudes, Experiential Learning
Seaward, Marty Robertson – 1978
The purpose of this study was to compare the career maturity, self concept, and academic achievement of female students enrolled in intensive business training (IBT), cooperative vocational office training (CVOT), and regular business education programs. A sample of 240 students, equalized into three groups on the basis of IQ scores, were given…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1979
A project is reported and evaluated which provided experience-based career education opportunities for grades 9 and 10 in Minot, North Dakota, through Career Education PLUS (Planning, Learning, Understanding, Succeeding), an alternative education program. Focus of the evaluation is on the project objectives: to provide students with (1) training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
Bennett, Barbara K.; And Others – 1993
The Youth Work Skills (YWS) program was developed to help economically disadvantaged, out-of-school, high school-aged youth with reading abilities at or below the fifth-grade level become job ready. In 1992-93, YWS served 236 participants at 7 sites throughout New York (two sites each in Brooklyn and Buffalo and sites in the Bronx, Rochester, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Annual Reports, Comparative Analysis
