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Flanagan, John C. – 1971
This sample national survey compares results for students in the eleventh grade in 1970 to the Project TALENT national survey of high school students conducted in 1960. Several important conclusions resulted from this survey: 1) there has been little improvement in reading skills in the first eleven years of schooling; 2) guidance programs appear…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Amatea, Ellen S.; Cross, E. Gail – 1982
The Dual Career Guidance Project is a career guidance development project to design materials and models for professionals to use in assisting young men and women to develop awareness of and skills in managing a dual worker/career life style. The specific objectives of the project were to design and implement field test evaluation strategies for…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, College Students, Coping, Counseling Techniques
Williams, Freddie L. – 1985
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…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Risser, John J.; Tulley, John E. – 1976
A pilot study evaluation of SIGI (System of Interactive Guidance and Information) at Pasadena City College in 1974-75 tested the effectiveness of an experimental research design for an expanded field test of the system the following year. (SIGI is a computer based career guidance program designed by Educational Testing Service to assist community…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, College Students
Inaba, Lawrence A., Ed. – 1996
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…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Trades Union Congress, London (England). – 1998
Best practices in trade union-sponsored adult guidance programs were identified through five case studies in the United Kingdom and one in Denmark. The case studies from the United Kingdom focused on the following: a partnership between local trade unions and a city center education guidance service supported by a local college of further and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Career Counseling, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Berney, Tomi D.; Moghadam, Val – 1989
The Scholastic Transition and Resource System Program (Project STARS) sought to identify gifted and talented students of limited English proficiency and provide them with the help needed to succeed in advanced and basic content area and vocational/technical courses. The 1-year, federally-funded program served 321 students at 3 New York City high…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Computer Science
Helliwell, Carolyn B.; And Others – 1974
Phase 1 evaluation results of a demonstration project in career education are summarized in this report. (The program was designed to meet established goals and objectives through a series of guidance units administered to students in the classroom by teachers as part of the regular curriculum. General conclusions and recommendations are reported…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance
Ventouratos, Despina – 1993
Enhancement of Learning through an Integrated Teaching Environment (Project ELITE), a federally-funded bilingual education program, served 233 students of limited English proficiency in two high schools in Queens (New York) in its second year of operation. Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL),…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Dropout Prevention
Campbell, Robert E.; And Others – 1983
This study was conducted to identify and review research studies related to career guidance effects, to categorize and synthesize those findings, and to make recommendations for future practice, research, and policy. Studies selected for the review were conducted since 1970, concerned grades 9 through 14, had a sample population of 25 or more,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
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
Barnes, Keith D. – 1980
This resource booklet contains an operational appraisal instrument for use in evaluating the program effectiveness of secondary school guidance and counseling activities. It first presents criteria for exemplary guidance programs, which form the basis for the evaluation. Program areas appraised by this instrument include philosophy and objectives,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Education, Consultation Programs, Counseling Services
Post, John O., Jr. – 1978
The Occupational Competence Access Project (OCAP) was conducted to facilitate student access to (1) occupational opportunities through the provision of a guidance system incorporating student capabilities; (2) occupational opportunities through the provision of industrially validated exploratory programs in occupational preparation; and (3)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Development
Hensarling, Paul R. – 1983
Designed to measure the effectiveness of selected school special services, the evaluative instruments collected here are the result of several years of research and refinement. The descriptive criteria developed by the author may be used as a guide for initiating a new program or applied for self-evaluation or team evaluation of existing services.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Ancillary School Services, Attendance
Tyler, Leona E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
In September of 1958, the 85th Congress passed Public Law 85-864, the National Defense Education Act. The step had not been taken lightly. For months congressional committees had been studying alternative bills. Widespread discussion had occurred in circles where educators and the educated were represented. Many proposals had been examined and…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Personnel, Counselor Training, Federal Legislation
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