This brief describes the Choices in Transition program for low-income ethnic minority youth with disabilities in Chicago. The program's goal is to support participants in the process of transition in order to improve educational and vocational success and to increase self-determination. Recommendations for improving the transition outcomes of…

School leaders play a pivotal role in keeping schools safe from chemical accidents. Readers of this brochure can help schools develop a chemical cleanout and prevention program and assemble a team of teachers, facilities staff, and administrators with technical expertise to assess chemical safety issues and set policy. Some important team roles…

"Curriculum alignment projects, towards developing a need to know", presents an approach to curriculum design that could be considered truly constructive in its format. Successful completion of the project requires students to synthesize a number of concepts that make up the block's learning objectives.

An action research project was designed to test a model for providing integrated guidance and assessment services to adult women in Britain. A network of professional guidance providers were involved in delivering the services. Coordination was separate from delivery but linked into the action research and evaluation. The emphasis throughout…

This study relates the effect evaluations had on changes in existing guidance programs. Ohio schools (n=20) that had completed an evaluation the previous year were studied. Of the 357 recommendations made to the evaluated schools, nearly one-third were fully implemented within one year and another one-third were in process of implementation.…

In an effort to educate each child "to his full humanity" the author describes two priorities for special education: the first is the integration of special education into the regular curriculum at the elementary and junior high level and the second is the introduction of guidance from kindergarten on up. (HMV)

Job profiles were developed in 14 vocational education areas so that, when an employer requests information on a student, guidance people will not only be able to describe in detail the student's skill development, but will also be able to duplicate the entire profile and mail it to the employer. (Author/AG)

Describes how the Talking, Feeling, and Doing Game (designed for counseling withdrawn children aged five to twelve) can be modified for other children in individual and classroom settings. (HMV)

This study was designed to assess the effects of a career education program on students' career maturity as measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI). Results indicate that the career education program had a positive effect in increasing students' levels of career maturity. (Author)

Reviews a series of films about engineering appropriate for career guidance at the secondary level. (GS)

The article describes a model for bringing decision making into the vocational education classroom. (MW)

The purpose of this article is to report how a guidance consultant was able to model the use of the encouragement process plus immediate corrective feedback to help one boy improve his arithmetic achievement and attending behavior in the classroom. (Author)

Evaluating the effectiveness of career guidance programs is a complex process, and few comprehensive models for evaluating such programs exist. Evaluation of career guidance programs has been hampered by the myth that program outcomes are uniform and monolithic. Findings from studies of attribute treatment interactions have revealed only a few…

The 1987-88 status of the Guaranteed Guidance and Counseling Program of the Portland Public Schools (Oregon), which was piloted in 1983-84, is described and evaluated. The program is based on a model of secondary school guidance and counseling that: (1) lets schools determine what services are delivered; and (2) emphasizes group, rather than…

Describes improvements in the guidance program at one high school after three major changes were instituted to attain greater flexibility. The changes were: (1) allowing students to choose their counselors; (2) allowing counselors to arrange their own schedules; and (3) recruiting volunteers from the community to help with clerical duties. (HMV)