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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1968
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of a cooperative arrangement between the New York State Education Department and the New York State Employment Service, undertaken to produce and disseminate up-to-date information about local entry occupations for use in the career guidance of students. In a sampling of high schools and…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, Community Colleges
Arkansas 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
Oxley, Howard W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This bulletin is one of a series reporting the findings of investigations undertaken during 1936-37 under the Project in Research in Universities of the Office of Education. The project in Research in Universities represents a unique and significant innovation in cooperative research. This series focuses on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Out of School Youth, Investigations, Employment Programs
Arendale, David R. – Online Submission, 2008
The GPS LifePlan is an interactive resource that helps students succeed in reaching their career, education and personal goals. GPS stands for "GOALS + PLANS = SUCCESS". http://gpslifeplan.org This holistic academic and student development program provides a structure for students to define their goals and helps them establish plans to…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Educational History, Profiles, Institutional Characteristics
McKee, Barbara G.; Schroedl, Kathleen J. – 1981
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…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Computer Oriented Programs
Cowen, Agnes – 1978
A study was conducted to enhance the equal access and opportunity of Cherokee Indian youth to vocational education through the development and implementation of strategies designed to stimulate junior high school teachers to assume the responsibility of vocational counseling and guidance in the regular classroom curriculum. A second objective was…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Career Choice, Career Counseling
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
Montague, David O. – 1972
To assess the effectiveness of a 3-month inservice program in vocational education for high school counselors, data were gathered from 60 non-college bound students (experimental group) whose counselors participated in the 3-month program and 60 non-college bound students (Control group) whose counselors did not participate in the program. Pre-…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Opportunities
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
Buckley, Edmund H. – 1976
A study was conducted to compare the achievement of students in an experimental remedial "core program" with that of students in a standard remedial English program. The core program consisted of an interdisciplinary remediation effort in which students took a nine-unit block of three courses in composition, reading, and guidance. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Colleges, Guidance Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rice, Robert – 1990
During fall term 1988, an experimental course called HIED 202x was developed to help newly enrolled transfer students with their academic and social adjustment to Oregon State University. Analyses were conducted to determine the effects of the course upon student reaction to college, study habits and attitudes, and academic performance as measured…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Adjustment (to Environment)
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1978
The Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program at J. L. Mann High School (Greenville, South Carolina) was designed to provide enrolled students with community-based career experiences and to make the career resource room a focal point for career education for all students and teachers in the school. An individualized course of instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Employer Attitudes, Experiential Learning
Bowlsbey, JoAnn H.; And Others – 1976
A comprehensive report of the last six weeks of a three-month field trial of DISCOVER, conducted in one junior high and one senior high school in Baltimore, Maryland, and interpretation of the collected data are provided in this report. (DISCOVER, the product of four years of development, 1972-76, is a computer-based guidance system which includes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Dalton, Herbert F., Jr.; Erdmann, David G. – 1990
This report describes the results of the Gulf County (Florida) College Counseling Project designed to raise the educational aspirations of students in rural areas who would otherwise stop their education upon completion of high school. It also describes how and why scores of young people from poor and working class homes in the Florida Panhandle…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admissions Counseling, College Preparation, Counseling Services
DiSilvestro, Frank R. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine what types of student service activities take place in National University Extension Association (NUEA) institutions. By means of two questionnaires, information on a total of 134 student service activities from 69 NUEA institutions was gathered. The reported practices are indexed by state and by type of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Continuing Education Centers, Counseling Services
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