Reports on a 6-year study and project in Ohio that visited schools to evaluate their guidance programs, implemented revitalization ideas into 10 programs, and evaluated and disseminated the results. Presents eight essential actions for revitalizing guidance programs. (SR)

This guide describes the Comprehensive Guidance Program model and outlines a process for tailoring the program model to meet the needs of the vast array of Texas public schools. It provides quality program standards designed to enhance district and campus efforts to improve the guidance programs in order to more effectively guide the development…

Discusses advantages and disadvantages (to the counselor) of stating objectives in terms of observable behavior; also problem of demonstrating that guidance objectives are part of general educational objectives. (Author)

This report describes educational and vocational guidance services for adolescents and young adults in Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Netherlands. It is drawn from a larger study that was conducted to compare the nature and size of guidance services, their staffing and funding, the identity of their clients, and in particular,…

Guidance and vocational education personnel have continued to play key roles in responding to individual and societal needs that have arisen as a result of the occupational, social, and economic changes occurring over the last 80 years. Guidance programs serve as the link between providing occupational training and employment readiness for the…

Intended to improve career guidance services on the secondary level, this operations manual was developed primarily by school counselors to assist other counselors in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of career guidance, counseling, and placement objectives in Maryland's school system. Contents are divided into the following three…