IDENTIFICATION AND STIMULATION WERE ATTEMPTED FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHOSE DEPRIVATION WOULD TEND TO KEEP THEIR ABILITIES FROM BEING RECOGNIZED. IT WAS HOPED THAT THE PROGRAM WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR MANY MORE SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO ON TO HIGHER EDUCATION. A MAJOR PROGRAM OF CULTURAL ENRICHMENT WAS PLANNED FOR THE PROJECT STUDENTS AND…

This brief guide describes the Career Planning Support System (CPSS), a career guidance management system designed to be integrated into a high school's operations and also designed for district or state application. The guide covers the following aspects of CPSS: (1) the CPSS perspective and five skill categories (self-awareness, social…

This paper describes an exploratory project of computer-assisted occupational guidance used with junior-high school boys in Altoona, Pennsylvania. A student interacts with the computer system from a terminal composed of a typewriter-input and readout device, a tape recorder, and a slide projector. With information related to the students'…

Part II includes chapters three and four. Chapter Three, "Organizing a Balanced Pupil Personnel Program," focuses on the coordination of three program functions among the many services the authors include under pupil personnel services: (1) supportive-consultative, (2) special instructional, and (3) research and data processing. They illustrate…

Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration (SUTOE) is a one year course designed to assist ninth graders with educational and career planning. SUTOE aims at enabling students to gain knowledge and understanding of possible future goals and job opportunities, to develop social skills in applying for work via application and job interviews,…

This paper discusses in a general way the roles and commitments of guidance workers and counselors, hopes for guidance and counseling programs in the future, and the author's perceptions of the Education Amendments of 1976 (Public Law 94-482). (These amendments authorized guidance and counseling functions to touch people throughout their life…

This monograph is designed to assist individual schools to plan for, organize, implement, and manage their own elementary school guidance programs. Those school districts supporting a centralized team planning approach to program development will also find the monograph useful, but may wish to adapt some of the suggestions to fit their own…

During 1973-74, ESEA Title III funds became available for the development of a "Model Comprehensive Needs-Based Guidance System and Modular Instructional Strategies" for the state of Georgia. The proposal called for a new conceptualization of guidance; one that derives its goals and objectives from the developmental needs of students.…

This study addresses itself to these topics: (1) the current state of the art in California Career Centers, (2) those materials and programs which students are finding most helpful, (3) the effect the Career Centers are actually having on students who use them, and (4) the effectiveness of Career Centers in providing career guidance services to…

This paper reports the findings of a survey in North York, Canada, to determine the needs and priorities of high school students regarding career information. It is hoped that the report will be useful to schools in determining the emphasis which guidance services should be giving to career education. The survey sampled 3,690 students from 46…

Counselors should strive to improve perceptions of the guidance program and counselor functions as well as the guidance process and resulting product. It is essential that the functions performed, and the manner in which they are performed, be evaluated through both internal and external assessment. The following steps are recommended for program…

This study examined possible relationships between the analytic/global dimension of cognitive style, as defined by Davis and Klausmeier (1970) and measured by the Children's Embedded Figures Test (CEFT), and two modes of instruction varying in the level of guidance provided the learner. Sixty Anglo subjects (eight and nine years old), identified…

This simulation is designed for use of guidance teachers as part of a Careers Education program. Although basically dealing with a careers situation, other aspects of guidance emerge--confidentiality, parental problems, writing of references. It is interesting to consider these aspects from the pupils' point of view. The simulation can be used…

The rationale for conducting programs for the adult women who are seeking an "educational course of action" is based on the discontinuities in life styles experienced by women which make it extremely difficult and frustrating for them to contribute their talents to society. Personal characteristics of the women in a non-credit exploration course…

Beginning with a brief summary of the need for practical vocational guidance systems, the author explains his Self Directed Search for Educational and Vocational Planning (SDS), which was developed to provide a cheap, practical, vocational guidance system having a high degree of scientific validty and client effectiveness. The SDS is a…