The report summarizes the evaluation made of six special occupational education programs (five for the deaf and one for the blind) funded under Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, Part B, Section 4(B) of P.L. 90-576. Section I provides an overview of the observational techniques used to conduct the evaluation. The overview identifies what was…

Discusses the model programs and research activities of NIE in career education: the Institute sees career education as being concerned with fundamental education-related processes by which people select, prepare for and are retrained for increasingly satisfying jobs and careers. (Author/JM)

This brochure by the Coordinating Committee on Research in Vocational Education (CCRVE) for prospective grantees and contractors provides information on the various kinds of federal funding for research, development, and demonstration projects available in vocational education, career education, and education and work. It discusses these federal…

The history of Americans' concern with how youth are prepared to enter the working force is recounted briefly, with emphasis upon contemporary vocational education legislation. One major recent development is cited: Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), which USOE has chosen to demonstrate nationally via the Vocational Education Act, Part D.…

This report summarizes findings and recommendations from Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) research, demonstrations, and evaluation conducted in FY 1980-81. Chapter 1 presents research, experimentation, and demonstration study findings for projects completed February 1980 through June 1981. Findings are grouped into three…

The overall goal of this project was to examine the effectiveness of career education by identifying some of the best of the current career education programs and practices which were referred to in Public Law 93-380 and which have been objectively evaluated. The specific objectives were to: (1) gather and analyze reports of career education…

A study was conducted to identify and describe evaluated, exemplary activities in career education (K-12) which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. The major tasks of the study were to: (1) establish criteria for identifying evaluated, exemplary activities; (2) search for…

The 1975 evaluation report for the Career Education Instructional System's exemplary project at Newark School District, Delaware, describes the evaluator's activities in accomplishing four tasks. In the first task, each of the 155 curriculum units developed by the project was classified according to instructional goals by school, grade level, and…

For the 1973-74 school year the California Career Education Task Force decided that expanded activities would be most productively developed at six previously funded sites plus two additional sites. Since the eight project sites differed in geographic location, socioeconomic level, size, ethnic composition, and school organizational pattern, a…

Designed for the practitioner, this paper presents a review of the literature on postsecondary career education. The paper begins with an overview of the history and present context for postsecondary career education, including a review of the pressing needs of postsecondary schools, a description of some of the issues and problems facing…

A study was conducted to determine if the pre-center incomes/salaries could predict the post-center salaries of participants in the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. By using the reported family income…

This report submitted to the Congress from the Committee on Human Resources contains the Career Education Incentive Act, a bill which provides federal financial incentives to states to develop, implement, and strengthen career education programs. A summary of the bill follows a chronological review of the legislation's consideration in Congress.…

Part of a series designed to assist California school districts with the implementation of career education in K-12, this resource guide covers the wealth of experience and information available from government resources at the local, state, and federal levels and from resources in the community. Sources are listed that offer access to materials…

The technical report documents the methodology of a study reviewing the vocational research and exemplary projects in Oregon, so that successful projects or products may be accessible for transportability to other environments. The three stages of research were: (1) Data collection of information on practices, (2) selection of promising practices,…

Forty-eight of the Exemplary In-School Demonstration Projects being conducted under Title IV, Part A of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) of 1977 were analyzed to (1) provide an initial discussion of some of the basic aspects of the various strategies employed by the projects and (2) assess some of the fundamental…