A statewide study was conducted to assess the extent of services offered by Education Information Centers (EICs) in Ohio. The following four objectives guided the project activities: (1) to catalog, describe and analyze current statewide resources and services for providing educational information, guidance, counseling and referral services to all…

This State of Wyoming evaluation report on programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III, is divided into two parts. Part 1 includes summaries of the implications and recommendations drawn from on-site visits to each of the projects, including such projects as…

The impact of a 3-year effort to implement career education into the South Portland school system through Project REVAMP (Revitalize the Vocational and Academic Multifarious Program through Career Education) is examined. Evaluation assessed observable curriculum changes, guidance services in response to the career development needs of all…

Computer-based learning environments for science and mathematics education support predominantly individual learning; from first generation drill and practice programs to today's advanced, knowledge-based tutorial systems, one learner interacting with one computer has been the typical setting. Mathematics educators, however, increasingly…

Adolescence is a tumultuous stage in human development. As teenagers enter high school, they face the emotional changes that come with the challenges and pressures of approaching adulthood. This paper presents an overview of comprehensive counseling programs that provide support for students entering high school. The paper opens with a review of…

This Occasional Paper (No. 5 from the ACCLAIM Research Initiative) offers counsel for studying rural mathematics education directed at the ACCLAIM Center's first cohort of doctoral students. It discusses the scope of rural math education dissertations, motive, design, related literature, putting rural in rural education research, and the need for…

In May 1938 the Commissioner of Education invited to Washington a group of specialists who were actively engaged in work of a clinical nature, with particular relation to child-guidance programs in school systems. The purposes and findings of that conference are presented in Chapter VI of this bulletin. Among the services which the conferees…

In 1979, East Tennessee educators developed an elementary school guidance curriculum guide for grades four-six. A 1980 questionnaire indicated that teachers using the guide are capable of carrying out a program of classroom guidance activities when they are provided with a suitable program, and that the results are positive. (LC)

High school students can use the Internet to investigate colleges and explore employment opportunities. Twenty-two Web sites are listed, and four online projects developed by library media specialists for high school juniors and seniors involving online research, exploration of college Web sites, creation of working bibliographies, and job…

Outlines the practical marketing strategies used to implement Project Career REACH, a career development program for high school freshmen. Marketing basics for guidance programs are discussed, including mission analysis, market analysis, resource analysis, strategic planning, and evaluation. (TE)

This article describes a hybrid Sport Education-Games for Understanding unit through which upper elementary pupils can learn to play basic striking/fielding games. The unit is written for a class of 30 pupils. The twenty-five lesson unit is described in detail within 10 stages: (1) Getting started and early skill, strategy, rule, and role work…

This book contains a collection of 14 papers dealing with guidance and guidance programs in the Philippines, the Republic of China, Japan, and Thailand. An overview of the place of American counselors in international guidance and benefits to counselors and the counseling profession of world-wide contacts is reviewed in the initial paper. Issues…

This workshop manual is one of four volumes in a staff development series designed for use with the Georgia comprehensive guidance and counseling units. The manual presents three separate models of students' school coping styles to aid classroom teachers' understanding of student behavior. Part 1 summarizes four basic models of student coping,…

A project was conducted to strengthen the existing occupational guidance program in the St. Bernard Parish middle and high schools in Chalmette, Louisiana. Eight externship counselors were placed into a rotating externship with key businesses, industries, and trades within the surrounding communities so that a closer partnership could be…

This book focuses on career guidance functions at the secondary school level. In chapter 1, some basic assumptions about career guidance as one aspect of guidance counseling are presented. Chapter 2 discusses the components of a student guidance system: assessment of the student's personal characteristics and the status of the student's career…