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Curry, Evans W.; And Others – 1978
Focusing on the formation of career plans among black and white females, a study was conducted using the theoretical and empirical framework provided by a modified version of the "Wisconsin Model" of status attainment. Data collection was designed to obtain information including parental socioeconomic status, mental ability, academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Career Choice, Career Planning
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1977
This report contains accounts from seven Wisconsin school districts which participated in an incremental improvement project to demonstrate career education methods and procedures. The consortium district reports are from Eau Claire, Kimberly, Madison, Oregon, Shawano, Sheboygan, and Watertown. All presentations follow the same format: (1) major…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development
Ruhland, David J.; And Others – 1978
This manual for junior and senior high school counselors and teachers reports factors relating to career choice as determined by assessing young women in grades 7, 11, and 12 using a study-developed questionnaire, the Test Anxiety Questionniare, the Thematic Apperception Test, Fear of Success, and a sex-role scale. Chapter 1 is an introduction.…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Career Education
West Virginia State Vocational Curriculum Lab., Cedar Lakes. – 1979
This competency-based curriculum guide is designed for a non-laboratory course in home economics for eleventh and twelfth grades. It was developed and field tested by twenty-nine teachers in high schools in West Virginia. The Adult Roles and Functions curriculum is organized in two sections. The teacher's section contains information on teaching…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence, Competency Based Education
Guilfoy, Vivian M.; Grothe, Mardell S. – 1976
This second volume of a three-volume final report presents research and evaluation findings of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis.…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Mulkeen, Aidan; Chapman, David W.; DeJaeghere, Joan G. – Academy for Educational Development, 2005
Expanding and rethinking the nature of secondary education in Sub-Saharan African countries, traditionally reserved for elites and few others, are becoming crucial to successful individual and national participation in the global economy. As governments and donors turn their attention increasingly to secondary education, policies are being…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Secondary Education, Retraining, Program Effectiveness
Bozick, Robert; MacAllum, Keith – 2002
The effects of participation in school-to-career (STC) on subsequent educational and career opportunities were examined in a longitudinal study of 1999 and 2000 graduates of the Lansing Area Manufacturing Partnership (LAMP), which is an STC program sponsored by the United Auto Workers, General Motors Corporation, and Michigan's Ingham County…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Development, Colleges
Stephen, Jennifer – 1998
This guide is designed to help the user enter into the job market by making the most of their existing skills and finding additional training. Section 1, Vocations, Occupations, Careers, looks at the assessment tools used by employers and trainers to prepare people for today's job market. It describes how to develop a personal inventory of skills…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Cognitive Style, Course Selection (Students)
Quinlan, Liz – 2000
Attempts to explain sex-related wage differentials generally rely on the human capital and segmentation labor market theories. The human capital theory explains individuals' position in the labor market primarily in terms of factors determining their productivity, whereas segmentation theory focuses on differences among jobs as determinants of the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Blanck, Peter David; Sandler, Leonard A.; Schmeling, James L.; Schartz, Helen A. – Iowa Law Review, 2000
Iowa's emerging workforce of entrepreneurs with disabilities and the design of Iowa's Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (EWD) program were examined in an exploratory study. The study focused on the following issues: organizational characteristics of the EWD program; the characteristics of EWD applicants and their motivations for choosing…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Career Choice, Disabilities, Educational Research
Santiago, Paulo – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2002
This paper provides an extensive review of the most relevant issues involved in the management of teacher demand and supply at the pre-tertiary level. First, it proposes a conceptual framework for distinguishing among, defining and relating the different relevant factors. Second, it identifies trends and policy concerns regarding the quality of…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Shortage
Colette, Marian; Woliver, Beverly; Bingman, Mary Beth; Merrifield, Juliet – 1996
This curriculum is designed to meet the needs of adult students trying to make a transition from welfare to work or further education. Special focus is on Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program participants enrolled in adult basic education or life skills classes. The curriculum is built around four questions: Who am I?, What's out there?,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Career Planning
Hakim, Catherine – 2000
This book proposes a new, multidisciplinary theory for explaining and predicting current and future patterns of women's choice between employment and family work. Chapters 1 and 2 present main tenets of preference theory and explain the need for the theory. Chapters 3 through 8 elaborate four principal tenets of preference theory. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Development
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1997
This document contains materials for use in conducting a 1-hour presentation on school-to-work (STW) programs in New York State for area employers in order to elicit their support for the state's STW initiative and encourage them to share information about the initiative with others in their communities. The document begins with nine tips for…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on increasing job satisfaction that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Systematic Model of Job Design by Examining the Organizational Factors Affecting Satisfaction" (Zhichao Cheng, Danyang Yang, Fenglou Liu) reports on a project in which…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Planning