A Third-Party Evaluation of Six Career Education Projects. Final Report.

Overview & Synopsis

The six career education projects evaluated in this report were a computerized counsel or support system (Willow Brook High School); a career education model, grades 7-10 (Chicago State University and School District 143 1/2); a career education resource laboratory (Eastern Illinois University); career education K-12 (East St. Louis); a career education film (Southern Illinois University); and an annotated bibliography for career education (Southern Illinois University). Information gathered through interviews, on-site visits, surveys, and questionnaires is presented for each project in the following format: organization and purpose, process, problems, and outcomes. Each project is also accompanied by an evaluation schema showing objectives, activities, evaluative procedures, and findings. Conclusions and recommendations are presented as well as a table comparing benefits, costs, and recommendations for all six projects. A fifty-nine page appendix contains a list of materials developed for the projects, samples of survey forms, evaluation instruments, correspondence, and guidelines for a newsletter. (BL)