This report summarizes a course evaluation for an intermediate career education course. Objectives of the course were: (1) perceptualization: self- and environmental orientations; (2) conceptualization: directional choice and adaptive behavior; and (3) generalization: accommodation, satisfaction and mastery. The primary basis for the evaluation…

This second updated search of the ERIC system, "Dissertation Abstracts," and the journal literature yielded 76 documents which present guidance and counseling practices for particular use with minority and other disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students. (CJ)

This report discusses the family guidance program established in Denmark as a preventive measure for child care. In developing such a program, Denmark developed a number of innovations concerned with preventive care programs for children. The program has changed from its beginnings in 1888, and since 1964 has offered voluntary family guidance to…

This issue features the area of peer counseling in the two main articles and a bibliography. Two programs are described -- one at the college level, and one in a high school setting. In addition, regular features include: FOCUS on Community Colleges; Innovative Programs (this time devoted to post high school employment or training placement); a…

The Wilmington, Delaware, public school system plans to create a new educational facility designed to meet the special educational needs of urban students. To be called Brandywine Educational Park, this facility will consist of four interrelated centers, each one designed to correct a deficiency of the traditional academic public educational…

In response to intended future California legislation which would allot state aid to schools on the basis of how well each educational program met its stated objectives, the Comprehensive Career Guidance System (CCGS) was developed. It is a systematic approach to the development and evaluation of guidance oriented objectives and related…

It is the role of the school to assist the individual toward appropriate educational and occupational experiences. Twenty-five New Jersey high schools endeavored to improve their programs for career development by sponsoring innovative guidance projects. The projects explored and developed guidelines in five areas: (1) Special vocational guidance…

The primary purpose of this project was to develop a procedural model for improving vocational guidance programs in senior high schools. Using a systems approach, the model: (1) emphasizes student behavioral objectives, (2) gives alternative methods for accomplishing these objectives, (3) provides program evaluation strategies, (4) incorporates…

This issue begins the third year of publication of this comprehensive index to the literature of the counseling and personnel services fields. Included are 1439 entries drawn from ERIC documents, dissertations, journal articles, and books. Each entry is annotated and availability of the original document is given. The entries are cross-referenced…

This paper presents a discussion of the use of educational tests in guidance services as seen in the light of modern developments in statistical theory and computer technology, and of the increasing demands for such services. A focus and vocabulary for this discussion is found in Turnbull's recent article on "Relevance in Testing." Following an…

The author reviews the applications of computer-based retrieval and training systems and behavioral counseling programs in vocational guidance. Conclusions reached were that the student and the practitioner should be provided with an opportunity, within a humanistic guidance framework, to learn analysis and interpretation of data in terms of…

The document deals with a five year followup study of three California high school districts starting with 1963 graduates. The project was intended to discover if the guidance and curriculum activities offered enable students to make a satisfactory transition from high school into areas of work, school and/or homemaking. The following information…

Student personnel departments need to examine their role critically in terms of reforming higher education for "new" minority group students. These students' problems are threefold: those related to the college; those personal in origin; and those with social or psychological cause. Five specific deficiencies of student services are: (1) failure…

This study examined the administrative organization, supervisory functions, and the objectives of state departments of education in the area of pupil personnel services. Literature pertinent to the topic is reviewed and reported. The study included each of the fifty state departments of education, and covered the period from July 1, 1966 to June…

The Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) has two aims: (1) to assist youth in understanding themselves in relation to the world of work and, (2) as a result, to provide a background for career choice. To do so, OVIS provides a functional system for relating an individual's interests into broad homogeneous clusters of jobs. OVIS consists of a…