Summary findings gathered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in the 1973-74 national assessment of career and occupational development (COD) are reported. (NAEP is an information-gathering project that surveys the educational attainment of 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and adults (ages 26-35) in ten learning areas: Art, COD, citizenship, literature, mathematics, music, reading, science, social studies, and writing.) Focus of the report is on 17-year-old levels of ability; results for the other age levels are also included. Data are reported in three areas: (1) Making Career Decisions (knowledge about one's own interest and abilities, work-related experience, job-related values, and results for population groups), (2) Knowledge about Jobs (specific and general job knowledge, national percentage for success, and results for population groups), and (3) Basic Skills (computation and measurement, graphic and reference materials, written communication, manual and perceptual, national percentages of success, and results for population groups). Results are reported for different population groups based on the following variables: Males and females, blacks and whites, region, parental education, size and type of community, personal education, and family income. Data are reported in graph form. (TA) Primary type of information provided by report: Results (Overview).