There are various assumptions underlying the University Tracer Project at the University College, Nairobi, Africa: (1) that there is a relationship between subjects studied in university and the employment sought and found; (2) that this relationship will increase as competition for jobs increases; (3) that this relationship is sufficiently…

This paper describes the first component of PLAN's Guidance Program. The five basic assumptions underlying Phase I concern the role of guidance within PLAN's educational system. In line with these assumptions, direct attention is being focused on seven goals: (1) orienting new students to PLAN and orienting current PLAN students to operational…

Teachers (556) in the elementary schools of Florida completed a Likert-type rating scale containing 65 items related to guidance practices, and 15 related to guidance principles. The guidance function was perceived as a major responsibility of the classroom teacher. Major guidance functions used by the teachers are listed. The practices having the…

An enlargement of the understanding of the career for the individual is necessary in order to put the imperative need of work for everyone more into perspective. First, secondary education in 1980 needs to be taken, not as a high school education but rather as an educational process reserved for those in need of an interdependent, not completely…

The study was conducted to analyze the role of the elementary school guidance counselor and explore counselors', teachers', and principals' expectations of this role. Involved were 35 schools where the counselor, principal and two randomly selected teachers responded to a Role Expectation Questionnaire and individual interviews. The findings…

This paper describes a guidance program for students who are multipotential people, i.e., they are able to adapt themselves and develop the necessary specific skills to perform well in a variety of occupations. The author disputes the traditional method of counseling wherein the counselor attempts to identify single talents of the counselee.…

This study synthesizes evidence on the realignment of practical career guidance, counseling, and placement that has occurred since 1968 for noncollege-bound students. This study examines and classifies 13 guidance programs according to whether they emphasize vocational choice, vocational development, employability development, or placement and…

This publication is designed to assist local school districts and other educational agencies in implementing career education in Idaho. Career education is part of a comprehensive education program and should not be conceived as a time segment of education such as vocational education or academic education. The basic educational objectives should…

The Institute on Training for Change in Student Personnel Services was designed to meet the need for imaginative and innovative approaches to student personnel services in light of contemporary realities. Six papers presented at the Institute concern perspectives on the nature of man, strategies for change, student development, towards a positive…

This project was designed to provide a new, comprehensive, and sophisticated guidance program to meet the needs of pupils and teachers in nine school districts. The major purpose of the program was to maximize the development of each child, and broadly stated its functions included the following: (1) inservice activities to extend and enrich…

This publication reports the activities of an institute for in-service training of professional persons responsible for vocational-technical education in eastern metrololitan areas. Three related problem areas were seen as reasons for the development and focus of this institute. These included: (1) lack of guidance counselor involvement in the…

The paper is addressed to the problem of how to accomplish evaluation of Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) and its product, i.e. youth. It distinguishes between direct and indirect evaluation of the product and the process. Aspects of PPS which make evaluation difficult, but not impossible are noted: (1) the provision of PPS is partially an art and…

In this article, the authors present and envisage the use of teachers, administrators, and community agencies in an overall guidance program for a particular school. Utilization of this innovation has been coined as the "teacher-advisor concept." The central consideration of this proposal is to view student orientation as the primary goal and…

This is a review of the relevant literature and current practices in the field of occupational guidance. Because it was prepared in connection with the beginning of a seventh grade occupational guidance class in Utah, it deals, in the first part, with the vocational-maturational level of seventh graders. The second part summarizes contemporary…

The problem was to compare regional high schools including grades 9 to 12, small high schools having the same grades, and other high schools having per-pupil cost comparable to regional high schools in terms of the following criteria: (a) per-pupil expenditures; (b) pupil-teacher ratios; (c) number of different preparations per teacher; (d) scope…