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American Association of Univ. Women Educational Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1999
This study explores how women make decisions about educational transitions, focusing on the complex interaction of personal, social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors that influence women as they move from high school to work, from high school to college, and from the workforce back to school. It also compares men's and women's…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Career Choice, Career Planning
Gallup Organization, Inc., Princeton, NJ. – 1999
A study examined adults' attitudes and experience related to work and the selection of a career or job. Data were gathered through a telephone survey of a sample of 1,003 adults (659 employed either full- or part-time), 18 years of age and older, conducted in June and July 1999. The following areas were explored: current employment status; the…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
Conescu, Rachel; Lewis, Anne; Mackinnon, Ann; Weissberg, Alan – 2000
This publication describes the following six programs designed to improve education and employment preparation for adolescents and funded by the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds: (1) High Schools that Work, a national initiative that assists more than 1,000 high schools in 22 states as they upgrade their rigor and improve their quality of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Academies, Career Choice, Career Education
Griggs, Mildred Barnes; And Others – 1992
A project investigated the factors that influence the academic and vocational development of African-American and Hispanic youth. Data were collected via a questionnaire and structured interviews from 36 college juniors and seniors. Twenty-eight were female, of whom 18 were African-American and 10 were Latino. Six Latino and two African-American…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Students
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This teaching guide is designed for use in implementing the first level of a comprehensive entrepreneurship curriculum entitled: A Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Designed for use with secondary students, the first level of PACE consists of 18 lessons that introduce students to the concepts involved in entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Business Administration, Business Education
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This individualized, competency-based unit on determining one's potential as an entrepreneur, the second of 18 modules, is on the third level of the revised Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Intended for the advanced secondary and postsecondary levels and for adults wanting training or retraining, this unit, together…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives
Pough, Carmen R. – 1989
This guide was developed to assist administrators and teachers in planning and conducting an exploratory program in home economics at the middle-school level. Curriculum content and learning experiences were selected to meet the needs and characteristics of middle-school students. The guide provides a course description, list of course…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Education, Classroom Techniques
Oklahoma State Board of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center. – 1988
This module on effective employment practices is one of a series of modules designed to help teach students to become more self-sufficient in their personal and professional lives. This module provides teacher and student materials that are planned to help students plan careers and find and keep a job. Five units cover the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning, Classroom Techniques
Ahren, Nancy C.; Scott, Elizabeth L. – 1981
A study analyzed the career outcomes of men and women Ph.D.s Based on a sample survey of approximately 50,000 Ph.D scientists, engineers, and humanists, conducted in 1979 by the National Research Council, the study examined 5164 triads consisting of one woman and two men who were matched as nearly as possible according to selected background…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Behavioral Sciences, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis
Benson, Ann; Goodman, Debbie Truitt – 1981
This teaching guide is designed for eleventh- or twelfth-grade consumer, homemaking, and occupational child care students in Oklahoma. This in-depth study is designed to provide basic knowledge of child development and to develop skills ncecssary to care for children. In this volume attention is focused on employment in child care occupations,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1980
Designed to provide a listing of suggested resources to support the Project Basic instructional guide on the world of work, this bibliography consists of annotated listings of student-use materials (library books, films, filmstrips, kits, records, games, audio and videotapes, filmloops, transparencies, periodicals, and pamphlets) arranged…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Education
Villoni, Shirley – 1978
A project was designed to develop, field test, and publish a career infusion unit curriculum for grades 10-12 in the Garden Grove Unified School District. Students at one project school, two transport schools, and a comparison school formed the study sample. A third party evaluated the accomplishments of objectives for the following program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, American History, Attitude Measures
Wong, Eleanor; Smisko, Barbara – 1978
This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Nelson, Orville; Halfin, Harold – 1977
Third-party evaluation of the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium (WCEC) was conducted over two years, utilizing a time series evaluation design established in 1975. On-site interviews, surveys, and tests were used to collect data from students, teachers, counselors, parents, and administrators. The WCEC was effective in disseminating career…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education
Heck, Shirley F.; Weible, Thomas – 1978
In an effort to identify the motivational factors contributing to student retention or attrition, 487 students at the Mansfield Campus of Ohio State University (MC-OSU), a two-year, commuter campus, were surveyed to determine their characteristics and reasons for choosing MC-OSU and to assess the variances between their perceptions of the real and…
Descriptors: Age, Ancillary School Services, Career Choice, College Choice
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