This report evaluated 17 different guidance or guidance-related projects funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and carried out during the 1970-71 school year throughout the five boroughs of New York City. In general, evaluation procedures included the following: (1) Numerous site visits during observations were made…

TGISS (Total Guidance Information Support System) is an information storage and retrieval system specifically designed to meet the needs and requirements of a counselor in the Bartlesville Public School environment. The system, which is a combination of man/machine capabilities, includes the hardware and software necessary to extend the…

DIAGNOSTIC AND GUIDANCE PROCEDURES WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN ALTERING OR IMPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVERS. AN EARLIER GUIDANCE STUDY TESTED 1,078 BEGINNING FOURTH GRADERS, OF WHOM 190 WERE IDENTIFIED AS UNDERACHIEVERS. CERTAIN PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES AND A PHILOSOPHY FOR DEALING WITH LEARNING…

A 2-year project to focus on diverse approaches to placement and followup in vocational education within Indiana included seven sub-projects funded to local educational agencies across the State and targeted to specific problems. Products of the seven sub-projects were developed to provide adaptability to secondary and postsecondary schools…

The aim of feelings classes is to help children learn how feelings and behaviors are related, and how they affect others and themselves. The present project studied whether a feelings class changed elementary school children's choices of potential behavioral reactions. The results indicate movements to more positive interpersonal interactings. (NG)

This article describes a technique through which counselors or teachers can assist junior high students in developing normal heterosexual relationships. This developmental guidance experience can provide adolescents with both self-awareness and a sense of being normal in a way that is at once effective, enjoyable, and interesting. (Author)

This article describes the scope and objectives of the guidance movement in the province of Manitoba, first from a historical perspective and then as it actually is today. (HMV)

The study of guidance systems in Scottish secondary schools is interesting especially for its relationship to organizational theory. On the one hand is the development of personal, caring relationships between students and teachers; on the other hand, the problems of institutionalizing this system within the bureaucratized context of large…

This article summarizes the results of the field trial of DISCOVER, a computerized, interactive career guidance system intended to be used with students in grades seven to 12. (Author)

Harper College's women's center offers support and encouragement to women choosing to re-enter the working world or return to school, and an opportunity for women to enrich their current life styles or to reach out for new ones. (JG)

Batch-process, online career information, and online career guidance systems are computer-based career information systems that can provide current information on jobs, as well as match students with careers or educational courses. (KS)

Examines pastoral care, the welfare dimension of English secondary schools, in light of North American school counselling and guidance practices. The discipline/control emphasis of pastoral care does not correspond to North American practices in guidance and counselling. However, some commonalities in the academic/curricular and pastoral/welfare…

The impact of a continuing teacher guidance system was studied. The system provided to teachers consisted of in-school guidance, written guidance, and in-service teacher training. The guidance system was developed in connection with the more comprehensive project of developing a new mathematics curriculum for junior high schools in Israel. (DWH)

Describes an assessment of the status and quality of school career guidance programs in Iowa, and discusses related follow-up activities based on the findings. Compared programs that had received federal and/or state funds and those that received no external funding, and presents implications for other states and school districts. (JAC)

This is a personal account of the author's experiences as a counseling student involved in an evaluation of counselor performance at a high school. The author discusses problems encountered in evaluating others, particularly issues of status differential, interpersonal relationships, and strategies for overcoming them. (NG)