Career Development Needs of Adults: How to Improve Career Development ProgramsBert W. Westbrook National Advisory Council for Career Education, 1977 - 58 pages |
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activities Adults from high Adults from low ADULTS GIVING CORRECT ADULTS RESPONDING Adults were asked Adults with higher Adults with lower basic skills broad COD objective Career and Occupational career decisions Career Development Needs career development program Career Education COD exercises COD results COMPUTING FINANCE continuing education experiences Council for Career counselor discussed results Dixie Cups employment seeking skills exercise assessing skill finance charge GIVING CORRECT RESPONSE high metro communities higher than Adults IMPROVE CAREER job application letter job satisfaction knowledge of occupational levels scored higher low metro communities lower family income mail order form manual-perceptual skills measuring instrument NAEP National Advisory Council National Assessment national sample Needs of Adults occupational capabilities Occupational Development occupational information P-values PERCENTAGES OF ADULTS population publication Registered Nurse reported skills exercises sources of job specific sub-group differences sub-objectives Table taken a test test results test scores Took test total group
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Page 7 - ... urban fringe — communities within the metropolitan area of a city with a population greater than 200,000 outside the city limits and not in the high or...
Page 7 - These include: (1) high metro — areas in or around cities with a population greater than 200,000 where a high proportion of the residents are in professional or managerial positions...
Page 4 - V. Have positive attitudes toward work. A. Recognize the bases of various attitudes toward work. B. Hold competence and excellence in high regard. C. Seek personal fulfillment through own achievement.
Page i - The result has been the comnissioning of two series of papers on a wide variety of topics. Several of the papers from the first series were published in 1976, eg, those dealing with the emerging history and the efficacy of career education. A second series of papers were commissioned in 1976, again, on a broad number of career...
Page 33 - PREPARE FOR MAKING CAREER DECISIONS The first broad COD objective assessed was, "Prepare for making career decisions." This objective had four sub-objectives: A. Know own characteristics relevant to career decisions. B. Know the characteristics and requirements of different careers and occupations. C. Relate own personal characteristics to occupational requirements . D. Plan for career development or change.
Page 1 - ... learning areas: art, career and occupational development, citizenship, literature, mathematics, music, reading, science, social studies and writing. Different learning areas are assessed every year, and all areas are periodically reassessed in order to measure change in educational achievement. Each assessment is the product of several years' work by a great many educators, scholars and lay persons from all over the country.
Page 5 - COD packages were administered to a national sample which was stratified by region of the country, size of the community and socioeconomic level. The administration of the COD assessment was administered by the Research Triangle Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, and scored by the Measurement Research Center, Iowa City, Iowa. About 100,000 respondents were sampled in the 1973-74 assessment. However, not all respondents took all exercises. For example, more than 35,000 Thirteens participated in the...
Page 13 - An Assessment of Career Development Basic Work Skills: Selected Results from the First National Assessment of Career and Occupational Development. Career and Occupational Development Report No.
Page 14 - ... ectives : I. Prepare for making career decisions. A. Know own characteristics relevant to career decisions. B. Know the characteristics and requirements of different careers and occupations. C. Relate own personal characteristics to occupational requirements . D. Plan for career development or change. II. Improve career and occupational capabilities. III. Possess skills that are generally useful in the world of work. A. Have generally useful numerical skills. B. Have generally useful communication...