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Webb, Earl S. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1972
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Educational Needs
Download full textPerrone, Philip A. – 1969
This report is concerned with the role of the secondary schools in implementing vocational direction. It contains a two-year follow up which sought self reports of on-the-job satisfaction and evaluations by immediate job supervisors. Thirty pilot programs in high school vocational education were started in 1964-65; 444 graduates of these programs…
Descriptors: Achievement, Career Choice, Followup Studies, High School Students
Stodden, Robert A.; Lazar, Alfred L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1979
Findings suggested that the prevocational exploratory experience was statistically effective in contributing to a positive change in the relationship between Ss' vocational interests and ability. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Guidance, Careers, Employment Opportunities
Douthitt, Frieda – 1986
This report presents findings of a study of effective placement programs, both secondary and postsecondary, which identified elements that contribute to program success. The analysis begins with a look at who operates the placement services, what their backgrounds are, and their similarities and differences in terms of philosophies, opinions, and…
Descriptors: Job Development, Job Placement, Postsecondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Dunbar, Stephen B.; And Others – 1985
This paper considers the application of Bayesian techniques for simultaneous estimation to the specification of regression weights for selection tests used in various technical training courses in the Marine Corps. Results of a method for m-group regression developed by Molenaar and Lewis (1979) suggest that common weights for training courses…
Descriptors: Adults, Bayesian Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Military Personnel
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1983
A compelling case has been made for improving the process of admissions, selection, and enrollment of students in vocational education programs. A key element in this improvement would be the adoption of a statewide assessment of vocational aptitudes and interests of ninth-grade students in Alabama as a measure of student career development and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Feasibility Studies, Junior High Schools, School Districts
Doerr, J. Joseph – 1970
This study was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of discriminant analysis in classifying vocational and technical curricular groups in a single secondary school setting. The researchers compared scores on the Dailey Vocational Test and the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory in terms of the selection of vocational and technical courses by…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Classification
Baltimore County Board of Education, Towson, MD. – 1973
Presented is the final report of a 3-year project (1970-73) to provide vocational evaluation in a mobile unit for the 330 intellectually limited students in grade 10 special classes in the Baltimore County schools. Main project aims are given to be evaluation at home schools and subsequent development of recommendations for using school and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Curriculum, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedKaplan, Stanley – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Described is a diagnostic instrument to evaluate basic occupational skills and attitudes of educable mentally retarded students in a work-study program. (CL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Kapes, Jerome T. – 1969
The relationship between the nine General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) aptitudes as well as the GATB composite and success in a vocational-technical curriculum as measured by shop grades is investigated. Two different samples were used and both consisted of 10th grade boys enrolled in Shop Courses in the Altoona, Pennsylvania Area Vocational…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Education, Educational Research
Peer reviewedLevinson, Edward M. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1994
Addresses the importance of vocational assessment for students with disabilities. Discusses the legislative and governmental impetus for the development of vocational assessment programs in the school. Presents some current vocational assessment models, including a transdisciplinary vocational assessment design, school-based models, and a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Evaluation, Government Role
PDF pending restorationLombard, Richard C. – Office of Special Populations Brief, 1994
Research has shown that successful school-to-work transitional planning must be linked to good vocational assessment. A study of the type and extent of formal vocational assessments being conducted by educators within secondary schools in Wisconsin showed that 77 percent assessed occupational interests, 63 percent assessed vocational aptitudes,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individualized Education Programs, Models, Postsecondary Education
Kokaska, Charles J., Ed. – 1981
The document contains 10 papers on assessment in the career development of the handicapped, and is one of three volumes of selected papers presented at a November 1981, international conference on the career development of handicapped individuals. Part I contains four papers presented in a special session on assessment issues, and Part 2 contains…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
Harris, Randolph K.; Huckell, Raymond K., Jr. – 1974
This Technical Research Report gives correlations between student scores on the General Technical (GT) composite of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and cumulative grade point averages (GPAs). Data were collected on 911 juniors and seniors selected from a sample at 22 secondary schools in the San Antonio metropolitan area. The GT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Armed Forces, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Pastrana, Ronald R. – 1976
The central theme of this report underlines the complexity and multifaceted problems surrounding any attempt to define relationships between special aptitudes and success in an occupation. However, relationships between special aptitudes and success in occupational training are typically more definitive and have a higher correlation. This is…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Competency Based Education, High School Students
