THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES SEVERAL STUDIES BY THE AUTHORS EMPLOYING A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS DESCRIBED BY ROE IN 1956. USING A CODING-BY-EXAMPLE CLASSIFICATION, CLERKS ACHIEVED INTERRATER RELIABILITY OF .98 FOR GROUPS AND .92 FOR LEVELS. THESE OCCUPATIONAL CODINGS TYPICALLY CORRELATED MINIMALLY BUT UNIQUELY WITH ACADEMIC CRITERIA,…

The bibliography lists the items in the career education collection housed at the Media Center of the Cayuga County BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). Three areas are emphasized in the collection: Grades K-6, Career Awareness; Grades 7-10, Career Orientation; Grades 11-12, Career Skills. The materials are listed under the 15 U. S.…

Discusses the Kuder Career Search, a new version of the Kuder interest inventories that matches takers with each individual in a pool of persons from a variety of occupations. Reviews the methodology of person-matching; presents validity data and a case example. (Contains 45 references.) (SK)

The United States, Canada, and Mexico developed the North American Industry Classification System, which captures new and emerging industries, uses a unified concept to define industries, and is a consistent and comparable tool for measuring the nations' economies. Despite initial conversion difficulties, the new system will be a more accurate way…

Maryland redesigned its CTE (career and technical education) program a dozen years ago to prepare students for the 21st Century's global economy and its rapidly changing workforce needs. With 350 business and industry representatives, the state created a program whose emphasis is problem-solving and critical thinking, rather than narrow,…

The purpose of this study is threefold--first, to differentiate the group of public school teachers who left teaching to take up nonteaching jobs within the K-12 system (nonteaching educators) from those who left teaching entirely (leavers) and those who remained in teaching (stayers); secondly, to compare the personal characteristics, beliefs,…

Home Builders Institute (HBI), the workforce development arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), is dedicated to the advancement and enrichment of education and training programs serving the needs of the building industry. For more than 30 years, HBI has trained skilled workers in residential construction, promoted the industry as…

Investigates the hypothesis that, given a broad sampling of subjects from various occupations, typological analysis will yield a limited number of general interest patterns closely resembling the groups suggested by Holland. (Author)

As maps relate geographic areas, job clusters chart the relationships occupations have to one another--a concept which is vital to career education. (Author)

The unit is presented in five steps: a pre-test is given; the clusters are introduced and defined; students tentatively select four clusters for exploration; students are placed in groups according to cluster choices; and class time is set aside for exploratory activities. (AG)

Describes the revision of three measures: Career Occupational Preference System Interest Inventory, the Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey, and the Career Ability Placement Survey. (SK)

The 1990s saw considerable growth in employment, especially among high- and low-paid workers. However, there has been comparatively little real wage growth. (SK)

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.…