A study was conducted to investigate the effects of the correlates and problem areas affecting career decision making and specifically to test the validity of the O'Neil, Meeker & Borgers' (1978) model. A cross-sectional sample of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students (N=1,436) responded to the Career Factor Checklist (CFC) and…

TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION MUST BE DEVELOPED WHICH ARE IN KEEPING WITH TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE. A DOCTRINE OF "CONCURRENCY" IS NECESSARY SO THAT EDUCATION WILL COINCIDE WITH NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SOCIETY. A SYSTEM APPROACH IN EDUCATION CAN DO THIS BY PROVIDING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING, ORDERLY CONSIDERATION OF FUNCTIONS AND…

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED EXPERIENCES, PERCEPTIONS, AND EXPECTATIONS OF SCIENTISTS WHO ABANDON SCIENCE CAREERS. A CARD SORT WAS GIVEN TO 45 COLLEGE SENIORS AND RECENT GRADUATES WHO HAD CHANGED THEIR FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION FROM ONE TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES TO THE HUMANITIES OR SOCIAL SCIENCES. THE SUBJECTS SORTED THE CARDS ACCORDING TO CONVENTIONAL…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIALLY PREPARED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS FOR CHANGING THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE STUDENTS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY. THE 243 SUBJECTS, CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF THEIR HIGH READING COMPREHENSION SCORES ON THE CALIFORNIA READING TEST, ADVANCED FORM, WERE DIVIDED INTO EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL…

A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION LITERATURE AND AN EVALUATION OF ITS USE BY SECONDARY SCHOOL PERSONNEL WERE CONDUCTED. ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS HELD TRUE FOR ALL REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. FURTHER ANALYSIS INDICATED THAT COUNSELORS' RESPONSES WERE NOT AFFECTED BY SUCH SITUATIONAL VARIABLES AS…

The Manpower Commission's Career Motivation Study and Recruitment Project was designed to implement and evaluate some specific methods of exposing high school students to career opportunities in mental health. School areas chosen for the study were 23 rural-urban units in 11 Kentucky counties with access to mental health facilities. The study was…

For career education instructors to help in the career choices of their students, it is necessary that a knowledge of occupational information related to different subject areas be acquired. By introducing occupational possibilities into the career education curriculum students can explore these possibilities and make worthwhile decisions. The…

A supplement to the BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS, 1941 - 1960, this listing includes publications from 1961 through December, 1969 and supersedes all previously issued supplements. Included are general staff and study-related publications, which are organized according to author and subject. Broad subject headings are: (1) health and welfare; (2)…

Four counselors studied the relation between achievement and choice of major, achievement and motivation, counseling and motivation, and achievement and employment. To see if those with definite majors or career choices in mind did better than those without, 300 students were tested according to the certainty of their choice. No significant…

The report deals with conditions determining choice of natural science careers among American college men. Most data come from questionnaires returned to the National Opinion Research Center by a representative sample of 33,782 June, 1961, college graduates. Of 21,687 men, 1,894 reported preferring science careers as freshmen. In most of the…

This is a report on the findings of a qualitative attitude study intended as the first step in the development of programs to inform young people about career possibilities in education. It is divided into four parts and seven appendixes. Part 1 gives the summary and highlights of the major findings and conclusions. Part 2 gives, primarily in…

Presents a model of career decision-making which includes: a delineation of the internal psychological process of decision-making; identification of important developmental and personality characteristics of the decision maker; and specification of immediate or anticipated environmental factors influencing decision-making. (Author)

Helping strategies are more effective if the counselor understands grief and its relationship to loss. This article stresses the grief impact of involuntary career loss, the nature of possible grief reactions, and the role of the counselor in assisting those who are experiencing grief as the result of career loss. (Author)

Discusses the rewards and hardships of being a writer. (SRT)

Evaluation of vocational interests and personalities of 96 learning disabled high school students and 96 nonhandicapped peers using the Holland Self Directed Search found no significant differences between the groups. Results suggested a possible lack of occupational choices for learning disabled young people. (DB)