The contract system has been successfully employed as a method of conducting individual academic study. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how an adaptation of this system may be used to provide an innovative approach not only to counseling but also to other segments of school guidance programs. (Author)

Test scores reflect students' abilities in the specific areas examined. The use of these scores in an educationally meaningful way can result in improved guidance services. (CK)

Student presentations are featured in this description of a graduate course in vocational development and occupational information. (Author)

Vocational counselors go to the unemployed in California depressed area. (Editor)

The author proposes an alternative to the gross counselor student ratio as an index of the effectiveness of a school's guidance program. (BY)

Supporting structural tools in counseling include identification of specific outcomes, selection of criteria measures for their assessment, ranking of objectives, sequencing of subtasks, and keeping of performance records. (Author)

A live interest in the individual student is the real test of the guidance function. (Editor)

The author points out several cautions to be exercised in the acceptance and use of computers in the guidance area. He indicates their limitations, the lack of persons trained to use them properly, and the impersonality with which they handle students. (CJ)

Teideman, a leading authority on technological applications in guidance, stresses that guidance technology is an important new development. Schmidt, who has written widely in areas of psychology and counseling, questions the place of technology in guidance and society and underlines some of the concerns related to the adoption of technology. The…

Advanced graduate students in counseling, through circuit riding" services to two rural high schools, raised substantially the number of graduating seniors continuing their education. (Author)

Identification of student needs and general groupings or clusters of them led to specification of 12 components comprising guidance system. Discusses recent work relative to three developmentally oriented components: (1) orientation in; (2) personal choice opportunities; and (3) personal problem solving behaviors. (Author)

Student panel gives confused picture of counseling and guidance in Washington, D.C. schools. (Editor)