Although the completion of an associate degree at a public community college in Kansas fulfills the lower division requirements for universities in the state, transfer students frequently encounter deficits in requirements for specific baccalaureate degrees and/or programs due to the lack of program integration and problems of transferability of…

This document contains two occupational information indexes. The first index is an arrangement of the occupational titles contained in the "Occupational Outlook Handbook" (OOH). The information in this index is arranged in four columns: (1) the numbers to identify the CDM Career Area-Worker Trait Group code; (2) Worker Trait Group title,…

This document is designed to assist students in utilizing the Career Information System (CIS) component of the Career Decision-Making (CDM) program developed by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory. (See CE 019 229 for an overview of the total CDM program.) Students can use this guide to follow orientation sessions, complete checklists, and use…

This manual describes three instruments that can be used to inventory elements related to adult education and career development: (1) the Adult Education Program Survey, which is designed to examine the concerns of adult learners in the community regarding their prospective participation in adult education; (2) the Inventory of Community…

This handbook is designed to illustrate how nine rural schools, along with area postsecondary institutions, planned and implemented guidance and counseling programs and to help others similarly situated to do the same. It contains the ideas, strategies, obstacles, and accomplishments of field test sites in diverse geographic areas. This document…

In this brief overview of placement services for a comprehensive school, the following topics are discussed: (1) the history of job placement; (2) the need for job placement services (accountability); (3) general objectives of placement services; (4) format for establishing a school placement service; (5) school-business-industry cooperation; (6)…

ROLE-PLAYING IS A VALUABLE TECHNIQUE FOR WORKING WITH DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS CONGENIAL WITH THE LOW-INCOME PERSON'S STYLE. ROLE-PLAYING ALLOWS THE PRACTITIONER TO REDUCE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE DISADVANTAGED, IT PERMITS MORE LEARNING ABOUT THE CULTURE OF THE LOW-INCOME PERSON FROM THE "INSIDE," AND IT IS AN…

This model describes how the guidance staff at a hypothetical high school communicated the effectiveness of the guidance program to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. A description of the high school is presented, and guidance services and personnel are described. A conceptual model responding to student needs is outlined along with…

This study gives counselors some "cook-book" instructions in techniques of working with groups of teachers to give the latter explicit and detailed instructions for the use of role playing with their students. Role playing is described as a minimally threatening and maximally familiar way to increase students' understanding and acceptance of the…

Responding to today's high school students' human needs as well as educational needs necessitates that the teacher return to serving as an adult friend during their school life. Administrators are helping to set the stage for facilitating learning how to learn, and teacher/advisors are drawing upon many aspects of their personality and human…

A statewide study was conducted to assess the extent of services offered by Education Information Centers (EICs) in Ohio. The following four objectives guided the project activities: (1) to catalog, describe and analyze current statewide resources and services for providing educational information, guidance, counseling and referral services to all…

The achievement of more adequate vocational guidance services in the nation's schools through the improvement of state supervisory service, was the major objective of the seminar. In additon to 72 state guidance supervisory staff members from 47 states, seminar participants and leadership personnel included 14 counselor educators, 12 state-level…

A handbook titled "The Educator's Handbook for Secondary Career Guidance Programs", and designed to aid the educator-counselor in formulating and implementing a workable secondary school career guidance program, was field tested in four secondary school settings in order to assess the effectiveness of the model. The handbook contained…

A survey of 30 colleges, 15 with predominatly black students and 15 with predominantly white students, was conducted in 15 different states. The major objective of this study was to provide knowledge about the effectiveness of the placement process in a representative sample of four-year colleges with predominantly black student population and…

A survey of 30 colleges, 15 with predominantly black students and 15 with predominantly white students, was conducted in 15 different states. The major objective of this study was to provide knowledge about the effectiveness of the placement process in a representative sample of four-year colleges with predominantly black student population and…