This article summarizes recent information on the changing role of professional guidance and the linkages between different services in the Netherlands. The article is organized in three sections. Section 1 highlights some fundamental characteristics of the Dutch educational system. Section 2 examines the structure of the existing guidance…

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,…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this manual is the first of a series describing current, successful career education practices. Among the considerations discussed in this handbook are: (1) administrative practices, including the role of the superintendent…

As early as July 1974, the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI), a computer-based aid to career decision making, had been identified for possible use at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). A task force that intensively studied SIGI and its potential for use within NTID recommended that it be brought to NTID. For…

This document presents a model for career development programs to equip Idaho adults with personal competencies to make appropriate and satisfying career choices and transitions. This model is intended for colleges of applied technology in Idaho's postsecondary vocational-technical educational system. Part I is the program model, which includes…

This monograph reports on the progress made in implementing the National Career Development Guidelines and explores some possibilities for their future use. The "Introduction" (Mary Beth McCormac) summarizes activities at the national level and provides an overview of the project. "Lessons from the Local Pilot Sites" (Juliet…

This booklet, developed for persons interested in exemplary programs to improve vocational guidance and counseling, reviews currently funded projects in the field of vocational guidance. The document contains abstracts from 39 exemplary projects in vocational guidance and counseling in the state of Virginia. Included are abstracts from 7 projects…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This guide is designed to provide information about successful administrative and instructional practices and the models used to integrate academic and vocational education in Florida schools. It is divided into seven chapters, including a summary and conclusions section. The first chapter discusses various Florida initiatives. Outlined next are…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

These 18 papers were presented at a conference designed to share the diversity of ways that the Career Orientation and Planning Profile (COPP) is being used to conduct effective career guidance programs by selected career guidance educators throughout the United States. The publication begins with a brief tribute to Dr. Shigekazu Fukuyama…

This module, one in a series of competency-based administrator instructional packages, focuses on a specific competency that vocational education administrators need to be successful in the area of student services. The purpose of the module is to help the administrator develop skill in defining the broad conceptualization of student services,…