This assumption that non-standard speakers are limited in their linguistic ability is examined based on a larger study investigating the speech of working-class adolescents in Sydney, Australia's inner-city areas. Speech samples of four children are presented. An examination of verbal structures reveals that there is a predominance of simple…

Seventy-eight federally funded California vocational education projects were evaluated to provide information on which to base plans for future research and exemplary program policies and procedures in vocational education. Objectives of the evaluation were to (1) provide information for future planning of administration of funds; (2) determine if…

This study was one of the first in the field of school activities to combine psychological variables with previously researched personal variables to attempt to answer questions raised by Rehberg in 1969. It produced psychological profiles of students who participate in school activities; it also dispelled the myth that school activities appeal…

To the extent that equalization of opportunities for females and males requires socialization or re-socialization of massive numbers of people, the education system has a vital function in approaching the new ideal. Since the education system is explicitly designed to bring about behavioral and attitudinal change in young members of society, its…

A random survey of 2,951 grade 12 students in Ontario was conducted to ascertain student characteristics relative to their educational and vocational plans. A total of 2,555 usable questionnaires were collected, coded, and processed. The report concludes that educational and vocational plans of students depend primarily on their social origin,…

The relationship of Locus of Control and Sensation Seeking to 267 high school students' perceptions of their Actual and Ideal socio-psychological climates as measured by the Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) was investigated. A principal components analysis of the LEI responses yielded three substantive dimensions: pleasantness index,…

The general purposes of this study were to determine what consitutes conflict situations in a suburban high school and how these situations are viewed by parents, teachers, and students. The high school used in this study was one of four high schools within a large school district located in the northwest corner of Cook County, Illinois. The…

This paper investigates how well today's career materials represent women workers in illustrations. The specific populations reported on in this paper, from which two samples were selected, were: (1) the student materials (N=1091) listed in the Vocational Guidance Quarterly (VGC) "Current Career Literature" bibliographies from 1970…

This paper reports an attempt to replicate previously published findings on the interrelationship between free-recall performance and selected cognitive abilities. In Experiment I, 300 7th and 12th graders responded to a battery of eight intelligence and memory tests and were then randomly assigned to one of three pre-learning instructional…

The Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) has been used by some school districts to study the career development of high school students, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of the career education project. Two questions which were raised about the selection of the CMI evolved into the objectives of this research. Those questions were: (1) Do…

This report documents a research project conducted to ascertain what specific occupational competencies are necessary for employees in the food service industry. Questionnaires were mailed to employers, in restaurants and hospitals and to graduates of high school and postsecondary food service programs. The respondents completed 316 position…

Theoretical background materials for the development of an overall curriculum are presented in this first report for teacher use. Following descriptions concerning the middle years of schooling, current trends of curriculum objectives are discussed in connection with value systems, children's social adjustments, learning theories, and balanced…

This study contributes to the current ambivalence in the research literature about the utility of short-term approaches in the vocational development of high school students. (Author)

Six new vocational agriculture curriculum guides which are being developed at Stuttgart High School in Arkansas will cover the following instructional areas: soybean and rice production, horticulture, farm buildings design and layout, agriculture metal working, agricultural farm building and structures, and farm machinery. (BM)

Investigates effects of sex of judge, sex of referent, and sex-pairing of judge and referent on level of understanding, or affective sensitivity, of school counselors. Male and female counselors were found to be equally accurate in their empathic judgments. There were no detected effects of sex-pairing. (Author)