This guide, one of a set of twelve documents describing the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) and its use, provides instruction for faculty/staff members (on a needs assessment task force) to lead others in manually tabulating data collected on four questionnaires administered as one of the activities of CPSS. (CPSS is a comprehensive guidance…

This manual provides a framework for guidance curriculum development for use by planners involved in creating or improving a guidance program in secondary schools. These materials represent a competency-based approach based on the Georgia Comprehensive Guidance Model and provide a comprehensive structure of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes…

This School Subject-Occupation Index is part of a set of reference materials found in the Career Information System (CIS) component of the Career Decision-Making (CDM) program developed by Appalachia Educational Laboratory. (See CE 019 229 for an overview of the total CDM program.) This index was designed to relate Worker Trait Groups (WTG)and…

This manual was developed with the express purpose of assisting a potential career information center director through the initial stage of program development. It is intended that this manual be used by a university-trained counselor. It will help him/her to function as an administrator, select staff including paraprofessional counselors, and…

Project Ranger is a program providing a combination of classroom study, outdoor survival, and environmental education to students having difficulty adapting to structured learning. The program has three unique features: it tries to reach younger children than most programs for "reluctant learners"; it provides affective counseling…

The purpose of the Communications Survival Kit is to serve as a guide for counselors to assist in planning, developing and implementing a public relations program for the guidance department at the local school level. The kit contains practical information in three categories. First is a rationale for a public relations (PR) program, what PR is…

This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive pilot middle school guidance program. Staff members reviewed the literature on middle schools in general and guidance programs in specific, explored programs in operation throughout the state of California, and consulted with members from the State Department of…

This handbook is part of the materials in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs unique…

THE DEVELOPMENTAL CAREER GUIDANCE IN ACTION (DCGA) PROJECT SOUGHT TO/ (1) BROADEN AND RAISE THE EDUCATIONAL-OCCUPATIONAL LEVELS OF ASPIRATION OF A SELECTED GROUP OF DETROIT INNER-CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, (2) DEVELOP A PILOT PROGRAM TO BETTER MEET THEIR NEEDS THROUGH EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATIONAL-OCCUPATION CAREER GUIDANCE IN GRADES ONE…

PART I OF THIS PAMPHLET DESCRIBES THE INTERPROFESSIONAL RESEARCH COMMISSION ON PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES, WHICH WAS STARTED IN 1962 BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND FINANCED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH FOR A 5-YEAR PROGRAM. THE REST OF THE PAMPHLET DEALS WITH STATISTICS AND SPECIFIC PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES. OF THE 60,000…

The effects of a systematic guidance program upon school attitudes of potential dropouts in grade six of one elementary school in the northeast section of Washington, D.C. were assessed. The major findings from the data analysis showed significant differences in the pre- and post-test scores of the 15 students in the experimental group and the 15…

Results of a followup study of 40 elementary guidance programs established with ESEA Title III funds in 1976 showed that the funding of the programs for one year had a significant impact: 32 of the 40 districts assumed the funding of the programs after the initial year of operation. The remaining eight districts reported that the programs had been…

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CURRENT PROBLEMS IN URBAN EDUCATION. IN THIS CONTEXT IT DESCRIBES SUCH INTERVENTIONS AS A PILOT PROJECT IN THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND NEW YORK CITY'S HIGHER HORIZONS PROJECT. THESE PROJECTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY (1) THE USE OF SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS AND SMALLER CLASS SIZE, (2)…

Technical activity from April 1 through June 30, 1965 was concentrated in behavior analysis and guidance program development. The behavior analysis involved identifying 1,051 jobs as candidates for inclusion in the training program and grouping them into 30 sub-families on the basis of task similarities. Data necessary for decision to include the…