This document contains materials teachers may use for informal assessment of Missouri seventh-grade special needs students' employability and study skills and for teaching within the existing curriculum those skills the students may lack. An introduction defines and lists employability and study skills and contains cross-references to assessment…

This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to successfully pass a clerical business machine course (typing) in a comprehensive or vocational school. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists…

This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's ability to see likenesses or differences in colors or shades, identifying or matching certain colors, and selecting colors that go together. Section 1 describes the assessment and lists related occupations and DOT codes. Instructions to the evaluator are provided in the…

This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and to screen interested students into a training program in basic machine shop I. (The course is based on the entry level of the drill press operator.) Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for…

One of the new dimensions of vocational and career counseling is the recognition of the continuity in careers. Despite periods of unemployment and despite a radical change of occupations, the person having these experiences of change is still the same person. Although a career involves the life pursuits of a person, there are several differing…

A study was done to determine the relationships between the revised Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI) work-dimension scores and job ability-requirement estimates and the ability test scores of job incumbents and graduate trainees in related vocational/technical education programs. (The OAI is an instrument containing 622 work elements which are…

Science career preferences of junior high students, while not stable predictors of ultimate career choice, do serve to direct and maintain individuals along the paths to careers in science. In this study, factors relevant to science career preferences of black eighth grade students were investigated. This issue is of particular import to blacks…

The CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) Unified Intake Services is a CETA eligibility, assessment, and training program for residents of Tulare County, California. The prime function of the Unified Intake is to assess economically disadvantaged persons and to assist these individuals to obtain appropriate occupational training,…

Intended for counselors, vocational education teachers, and others concerned with the assessment of disabled students' skills, this manual provides a comprehensive overview of vocational education evaluation. It may be useful in developing a vocational evaluation program. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 focuses on vocational evaluation…

During its second year, the Hispanic Vocational Exploration Project recruited eighth and ninth grade Hispanic youth for a four-week cycle, after-school, career exploratory program at Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical School, Groton, Connecticut. A series of career education workshops was the other major project activity. Supportive…

The self- and career-assessment activities contained in this booklet, together with the summary sheet (score card) which each student will produce, provide a structured process for students to examine their preferences, aptitudes, and value systems and compare them with the requirements and attributes of thirty-five specific careers. Aimed…

The purpose of this research was to develop composites of subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) such that each composite score would be reliable and the various composite scores would be factorially independent of each other. Factor analysis was used to cluster the tests into composites based on the underlying…

The paper uses John L. Holland's theory of careers to explain certain common career phenomena and concepts. An understanding of careers requires useful answers for four fundamental questions relating to vocational choice, vocational stability and instability, and vocational congruence. The theory of careers attempts to answer these fundamental…

This handbook makes available in one source (two volumes) nearly 900 unpublished tests and measures of child development--measures of intellectual functioning, personality, self-concept, motor skills, physical attributes, and many other characteristics. The measures are appropriate for the years from birth through age 18. The measures are…

This eight-chapter book presents career development theory through a series of practical steps in which one skill builds on another. The book starts with a broad view of how work meets life needs and fits into the overall patterns of life, and it identifies important questions to consider and skills to develop for effective career planning. This…