Recognizing the importance of the need for effective career planning, the United States Army, in conjunction with the Council of Economic Development, conducted a forum to focus on this issue. What emerged was a program called Planning for Life, which annually recognizes outstanding career planning programs at the state and national level. The…

A study was conducted to determine the effect of the locally developed program of career orientation implemented in the Danville, Virginia, middle schools in August 1976, on the career development and academic achievement of students in grades 5, 6, and 7. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design was used for the evaluation, and…

The interim report outlines the second year objectives of a proposed three-year K-12 exemplary career education project for southeast Arkansas. A program description and evaluation of the project are provided by the evaluator. Grades K-7 focused upon knowledge about work were more significant than increases in self-awareness. Grades eight and nine…

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…

This document contains the final report of a demonstration project in career development for grades K-10 in Cincinnati Public Schools. The first section consists of tables describing activities in terms of level of activity, participants, objectives addressed, evaluation, and outcomes of the objectives. Part 1 of the second section, Evaluation…

The report covers a seventeen month demonstration project to design, develop and teach a health care career-oriented program for 60 enrollees of the Neighborhood Youth Corps in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The report concludes on whether the concept of a long-term career oriented program fits the experience or perceptions of enrollees and NYC staff,…

An assessment of the Exemplary Program for Occupational Preparation (EPOP), this report addresses itself to an identification of the project's present status, and outlines goals and objectives toward which project efforts should be directed during the final operational year. Comprehensive in scope, the program involved students at the elementary,…

A model career preparation program for first-year engineering women at Purdue University is described. Key elements of this project, which is funded through the Women's Educational Equity Act, are: a course designed to provide engineering and career information and practical experience; a means of evaluating the methods and results; wide…

The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…

The second year report of this exemplary project describes the problems, objectives, and programs for the development of a comprehensive and sequentially planned effort for career education. Most of the document consists of the project evaluation and the appendixes of materials relating to the project. Evaluation outlined the need for more…

Covering the Burlington school district's career education project for its first year from July 1975 through June 1976, the report describes a secondary program career education program emphasizing a combination of career clusters with student development plans. A sample population of 300 students from grades 7, 9, and 11 kept career folders and…

A study examined effects of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) Plus program. A small group of long-term income assistance (IA) recipients in New Brunswick was offered an earnings supplement and employment services (SSP Plus); a second group was offered the regular SSP earnings supplement only; and a third group was offered neither supplement nor…

This report summarizes the activities accomplished during fiscal year 1972 by an exemplary career development project serving 2,424 elementary and secondary students, 108 teachers, and 180 parents. The activities are listed and described according to whether they were primarily project, elementary, middle, or secondary school activities. Some of…

A 2-part developmental program consisting of a Dropout Component and a K-12 Component, this project is designed to provide a comprehensive and innovative vocational education program for the disadvantaged population of North Central Colorado as well as to provide a broad occupational orientation to increase students' awareness of the range of…

The Exploring Careers in the Community for Gifted and Talented (ECC/GT) program is conducted in Jefferson County, Colorado junior high schools to provide an 18-week career exploration component for gifted/talented students. The program provides gifted/talented students 3 hours a day to participate in interviewing community members about their…