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Peer reviewedWatts, A. G.; Hawthorn, Ruth; Hoffbrand, Jill; Jackson, Heather; Spurling, Andrea – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1997
Outlines the background, rationale, methodology, and outcomes of developing local lifelong guidance strategies in four geographic areas. Analyzes the main components of the strategies developed and addresses a number of issues relating to the process of strategy development. Explores implications for parallel work in other localities. (RJM)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Countries, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1980
A project was designed to expand the career guidance, counseling, placement, and follow-up services for early school leavers and adults in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A project coordinator met with staff at various schools to develop ways to expand career service for early school leavers. Students with high rates of absenteeism or discipline problems…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Awareness, Career Counseling
Download full textArkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1976
A project was conducted to develop and implement a school and community-based guidance, counseling, placement, and follow-up program that would place counselors and support personnel in an optimum position to meet the individual career-planning needs of every student, including the occupationally inclined. Specific project goals were to develop…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs
Treichel, Janet; And Others – 1979
This handbook is designed to illustrate how educational and community personnel in six school districts used a specific planning model to initiate comprehensive career guidance program planning and implementation. It contains a discussion of the Programmatic Approach to Guidance Excellence (PAGE 2) planning model and materials (an instructional…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Case Studies
Gibson, Robert L.; Mitchell, Marianne H. – 1976
A study was conducted to identify placement and followup practices common to successful programs, and to strengthen those aspects of pre- and/or inservice training which prepare local counseling and guidance personnel to function more effectively in implementing local placement and followup efforts. A total of 3,218 schools from 26 states were…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Employment Counselors, Guidance Objectives
Kenyon, Lawrence B. – 1976
The aim of this manual is to provide a useful tool for school personnel engaged in placement work and related activities in career education and guidance. Chapter l looks at job placement services, including the career resource centers and benefits to students. Chapter 2 outlines preliminary steps and needs in initiating a job placement program.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
Mesa Public Schools, AZ. – 1976
In this final report, the demonstration project conducted by the Mesa schools from 1973 to 1976 is shown to have been successful in reaching its goals of staff training, information dissemination, and student benefits in developmental career guidance, counseling, and placement services for grades K-12. Student-related objectives which are listed…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Objectives
Peterson, Marla; And Others – 1977
The Programmatic Approach to Guidance Excellence (PAGE 2) Project produced staff development materials for the career guidance components of program planning, curriculum-based guidance, and job placement. These materials make up the PAGE 2 Instructional Resource Package, intended to be used as a planning program for a comprehensive career guidance…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidance Objectives
National Evaluation Systems, Inc., Amherst, MA. – 1980
A survey was conducted to determine the effectiveness of job placement services provided to secondary vocational students in South Carolina high schools and vocational centers, to identify characteristics of effective placement service programs, and to identify efforts made by schools to overcome sex bias. Survey instruments consisting of a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Employment Counselors, Employment Services, Guidance Programs
Eninger, M.U. – 1968
The primary objective of this study was to provide a description of the process variables of trade and industrial education, such as curriculum, facilities, guidance and placement services, teachers and instructional methods, advisory committees and community relations, and administration. Data were collected from a stratified random sample of 100…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Counselor Characteristics, Curriculum, Educational Facilities
PHILLIPS, P. BERTRAND; AND OTHERS – 1964
APPROXIMATELY 200 COUNSELORS AND PRINCIPALS FROM 85 HIGH SCHOOLS ENROLLING 76,610 PUPILS THROUGHOUT SEVEN SOUTHERN STATES ATTENDED A 2-DAY CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE AND EVALUATE GUIDANCE PROGRAMS AND TO SUGGEST IMPROVEMENTS. A FOLLOWUP STUDY OF THE CONFERENCE, INDICATED THAT 88 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS HAD IMPROVED THEIR VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE PROGRAMS…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Attitudes, Bibliographies, Black Youth
PDF pending restorationChern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1976
The evaluations of 26 career education programs which operated in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania school district from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976 are contained in this report. Generally the projects achieved their objectives, with only a few exceptions. Indications are that the career development programs currently in progress in Philadelphia…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Career Education
