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Middleton, M. A. – 1975
Since the spring semester of 1974, the Work Experience Program has been operating in a number of secondary schools in Vancouver, British Columbia. This report is a survey of opinions from students, employers, parents and teachers regarding various aspects of the Work Experience Program. The purpose of the program is not to create job skills as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Employer Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Parent Attitudes
Nation, William C. – 1976
This paper reviews existing manpower training programs in light of the dual labor market theory, and discusses the implications for community colleges in addressing the needs of the unemployed within their service areas. The dual labor market theory postulates that there are two distinct spheres of employment: a primary labor market in which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Individual Development, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
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Leonard, Patricia Y. – Negro Educational Review, 1984
Examines theories of career development and vocational choice and discusses implications for the related functions of career education and guidance of Black youths. Urges that career education for Black children systematically counter environmentally fostered negative development in the affective domain. (RDN)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Counseling
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Muchinsky, Paul M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Reviews 278 studies published on vocational behavior and career development in 1982, in the following major categories: discrimination; performance; turnover; satisfaction; commitment and involvement; job analysis and evaluation; selection; life history experiences; performance appraisal; assessment centers; training; unions; alternate work…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Career Development, Collective Bargaining, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Kicklighter, Richard H.; Bailey, Brenda S. – School Psychology Review, 1980
The Children's Adaptive Behavior Scale is described, and statistics based on children aged 6 through 10 with IQ's 50 to 89 are presented to show the relationship of scores to chronological age, the low relationship with intelligence, and the negligible relationship with race or sex. (CTM)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Role, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Education
McIntire, Walter G.; And Others – Career Education Quarterly, 1978
The extent to which locus of control as a general expectancy model relates to career maturity was measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (Crites) and the Career Development Inventory (Super and Forrest). The most striking finding was the career maturity advantage of the internally oriented student. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Decision Making Skills, Educational Research
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Chapman, Alberta – Business Education Forum, 1979
Distributive education teachers who use competency-based instruction must help students narrow their career choices to one or a few so that the chosen competencies can be developed from specific competency learning packets. Career counseling, classroom storage and display of career and competency-based materials, and classroom management are…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
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Kelly, Kevin – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1992
This study, with 205 junior high school students (43 of whom were gifted), found that gifted students perceived fewer career barriers than did regular students and that gifted boys expressed a greater need for occupational information and a greater range of occupational aspirations than did gifted girls or nongifted students. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Gifted
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Stone, James R., III; Mortimer, Jeylan T. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1998
Review of research on adolescent employment found the following: (1) employment patterns were relatively unchanged in 40 years; (2) emerging literature challenges the assumption that "floundering" is necessarily bad; and (3) increasing amounts of work negatively affect school performance. Methodological issues include selection bias, sampling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Career Development, Education Work Relationship
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Patton, Wendy; Watson, Mark B.; Creed, Peter A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
The present study investigates the career maturity of 1090 high school students in Years 8 to 12 in Australia (n = 656) and South Africa (n = 434). Scores on the Australian version of the "Career Development Inventory" were analysed. While a developmental explanation for career maturity was supported, gender differences between countries…
Descriptors: Career Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, High School Students
ACT, Inc., 2007
Postsecondary and work success is central to the economic and social wellbeing of a country. Fundamentally, college success is measured by persistence to degree attainment. Analogously, work success refers to effective performance of a job's required tasks. To succeed in college, one must be ready for college. A student who is ready for college is…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Career Development
Varner, Jan – 1994
Career education programs, such as co-operative education, have been shown to influence career development. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether secondary school co-operative education had the benefit of enhanced career maturity, as measured by the Career Development Inventory. An experimental design called the Solomon four-group…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Cooper, Stewart E.; And Others – 1983
Career development theories provide useful ideas for understanding career indecision, but neglect of a measurement of career indecisiveness has caused confusion. To examine the relationship between trait indecisiveness, vocational uncertainty, and interpersonal characteristics, 325 freshmen students were tested with a Trait Indecisiveness Scale…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Decision Making Skills
Maine State Dept. of Labor, Augusta. – 1985
This document provides a technical model of the preemployment skills area of the Youth Employment Competency System that service delivery areas (SDAs) are required to operate under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The model is intended as a program development aid to SDA staff and JTPA service providers. Section I deals primarily with the…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Competency Based Education, Coping, Curriculum Guides
Christensen, Judith; And Others – 1983
This monograph on the development of teachers' careers synthesizes researchers' prescriptions for early-, mid-, and late-career professional development; and describes successful programs that demonstrate sensitivity to the stages of teachers' growth. The first chapter, "Teachers' Career Development," reviews current adult- and career-stage…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Career Development, Developmental Psychology
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