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Hemphill, Norma Jean – 1980
The inservice package for assessment team members is designed to provide skill training regarding the vocational assessment process used with special needs students. Activities within the inservice training package sensitize individuals to the purposes of infusing vocational assessment into the educational curriculum, and provide instruction on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education
Jensen, Harald E.; And Others – 1976
The Department of Defense directed that the military services move toward the use of a common aptitude battery for satisfaction of their personnel selection requirements. The content of existing service classifications were studied during the initial phase of battery redesign. Elements from the Army Classification Inventory, the Navy Vocational…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Difficulty Level, High School Students, Military Personnel
Fruchter, Dorothy A.; Ree, Malcolm James – 1977
In order to meet the needs of all the Armed Services, new forms of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) must periodically be developed, refined, and standardized on an appropriate normative sample. Since one of the uses of the ASVAB is to determine candidate suitability for military service, it is necessary for the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Equated Scores, Item Analysis
Johnson, W. Julius – 1974
The developmental unit, intended to become part of a total K-12 career education curriculum, is designed for use at the sixth grade level. It follows an interdisciplinary approach to subject matter, with the primary focus in the social studies area. Providing approximately 20-25 hours of instruction, the unit lends itself to the self-contained…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Programs
Download full textKapes, 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
Honsberger, Treva; Shelley, Mark – 1976
This project's goal was the placement of diversely handicapped students at the secondary level in suitable vocational programs which would lead to eventual employment. The technique employed to discover the aptitudes of these special students was work sampling, which is a vocational evaluation procedure utilizing "hands on" experiences,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Development, Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Students
Peer reviewedSink, Jack M.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedGrady, Susan K.; Frye, Bill J. – Community College Review, 1978
Explores the factors influencing female enrollment patterns in engineering fields. Enrollment has remained disproportionately low despite evidence that there are as many women as men with high mechanical aptitude and that good employment opportunities exist for women as engineering technicians. (AYC)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Engineering Technicians
Peer reviewedBrowning, Phillip; Irvin, Larry K. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1981
A review of research on vocational rehabilitation of the mentally retarded shows that many programs have been successful in placing clients. Evaluation methods are reviewed and vocational training methods in different states are described. Research shows that relevant evaluation, training, and placement can succeed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Job Placement, Job Training, Literature Reviews
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
Shaughnessy, M.; And Others – 1996
Numerous cognitive psychologists have validated the hypothesis, originally advanced by the Russian physician, A. Luria, that different individuals process information in two distinctly different manners: simultaneously and sequentially. The importance of recognizing the existence of these two distinct styles of processing information and selecting…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Career Choice, Case Studies
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
Parcells, Frank E. – 1982
To help with the curriculum development of college broadcasting programs, a survey was administered to 375 radio station managers in major, medium, and small midwest markets. Designed to establish the vocational needs of radio stations, determine and prioritize entry level broadcasting skills, and identify characteristics of success for long-term…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Career Education, Communication Research, Curriculum Development
Palmer, Pamla; And Others – 1988
A study investigated the alternate forms reliability of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Forms 8, 9, 10, and 11. Usable data were obtained from 62,938 armed services applicants who took the ASVAB in January and February 1983. Results showed that the parallel forms reliability coefficients between ASVAB Form 8a and the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Employment Qualifications
Rogers, Deborah L.; And Others – 1986
This report presents the rationale, development, and standardization of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) Form O. The test is used to select individuals for officer commissioning programs, and candidates for pilot and navigator training. Form O contains 380 items organized in 16 subtests. All items are administered in a single test…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Error of Measurement, Flight Training, Military Training
