The purpose of this study is to explore the importance and the feasibility of providing guidance, counseling, and other pupil personnel services in experimental Employer-Based Career Education programs, as part of a larger set of studies useful for those who will plan or operate such programs. The five chapters cover: (1) a definition and…

This publication reports the results of the design and development of a planning programming budgeting system for the Milford, New Hampshire, school system. The authors attempted to develop a program oriented budget rather than a line item or input oriented budget, and a model adaptable for general applications. The order of priority budgeting…

This publication reports the results of a doctoral dissertation which sought to develop guidelines for organizing, operating, and administering prevocational education programs. The guidelines were developed from questionnaires returned by 70 directors of local occupational orientation and exploration programs, a review of related literature, and…

This book brings together articles, written during the 1960's, which focus on the theory, research, and practice of guidance in the elementary school. It is primarily intended for use in the preparation of elementary school counselors, teachers, and administrators. The book has 10 parts, each containing several papers from the current literature:…

This study reports the results of the cluster analysis and a study of the instruments used in the Comparative Guidance Placement Program as they function in each of 20 curricular group clusters. The battery of tests and questionnaires were administered to approximately 6,000 students enrolled in more than 50 different programs within 23…

A 3-year guidance program to increase achievement level and motivation admitted 73 low achieving 10th graders. Experimental subjects were assigned to seminar or non-seminar groups; controls remained in the usual slow track. Both experimental groups were divided into smaller groups for flexibly programed classes in English, social studies, and…

The Reach-Out Program served as an enriched guidance service for potential dropouts. It sought, by closer contact with the home, to improve pupil attitude, attendance, punctuality, and reading competence and to make pupils and parents aware of those services available in school and community that would facilitate learning and maturity. The program…

The Lower East Side Preparatory School's main goal was to provide basic educational requirements for graduation with improved self-image among students who are dropouts/returnees from the lower east side. Because of the school's location it included the Chinatown area. The student population consisted principally of dropouts with poor academic…

A peer counseling program was instituted in a California high school to: (1) expand the guidance services of the school by utilizing trained students; (2) make school more meaningful for the peer counselors through personal growth and involvement; and (3) determine the feasibility of implementing peer counseling projects in other high schools in…

This is a further clarification of the psychological theory underlying the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD), a prototypic, computer-based, interactive, information quidance system, which is intended to facilitate the realization of purpose. The basic purpose paradigm herein comceptualized consists of a description, largely in…

At this Region X conference called by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 157 participants from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho met to discuss how career education needs of youth and adults and the needs of the economy are being met by schools in their communities, to determine the role that vocational education is playing in the…

On the basis of an established need, the Occupational Values Inventory (OVI) was developed as one of the data collection instruments for the Vocational Development Study to measure the occupational values held by ninth graders, including: (1) Interest and Satisfaction, (2) Advancement , (3) Salary, (4) Prestige, (5) Personal Goal, (6) Preparation…

The five State Urban Education C.E.C. programs in District 19 include Project Excellence, a recycled clinical program which provides diagnostic, referral, and educational service to elementary and junior school students who demonstrate some difficulty in their scholastic and/or emotional adjustment to school. In Operation Reading Success for Sixth…

The Cluster program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is designed to be a school within a school in which the students receive the benefits of small class size, psychological support, and curricular innovation. The program this year was expanded to include both ninth and tenth year students. The two clusters of…

The Cluster Program at Benjamin Franklin High School, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is designed to be a school within a school in which 249 ninth grade students attend classes in two separate clusters. Each cluster is formulated such that all students receive instruction from five teachers in classes whose…