Career Development Needs of Seventeen Year Olds: How to Improve Career Development Programs

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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, [Education Division], Office of Education, National Advisory Council for Career Education, 1977 - 151 pages
 

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Page 6 - Areas in or around cities with a population greater than 200,000 where a high proportion of the residents are on welfare or are not regularly employed.
Page i - April 6, 1977 meeting of the Council, a substantial amount of time was spent discussing these papers. A motion was passed unaminously to reflect the position to which the Council strongly adheres, namely, that it is healthy to have different points of view on career education and that the promotion of these differing views is a very positive step in the life of career education. We sincerely believe that the dissemination of these papers is, indeed, a very salutary action in the furtherance of the...
Page 3 - 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 skills. C....
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 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 3 - 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 12 - 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 1 - OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT CAREER AND OCCUPATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT WHAT IS NATIONAL ASSESSMENT? National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was initiated in 1964 as a response to the need to look at the outputs as well as the inputs of education. The project goals include collection and reporting of information about specific educational achievements of young people in the United States, detection and reporting of changes in that achievement, and encouragement of states and...

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