A Pilot Study in a Cooperative School/Community Effort to Enhance Realistic Student Vocational Choice and Awareness as well as Personal Development in a Transition to Adulthood through a Meaningful "Action Learning" Program. Final Report.

Autor/in	Napolitan, Richard R.
Institution	North Hills School District, Pittsburgh, PA.
Titel	A Pilot Study in a Cooperative School/Community Effort to Enhance Realistic Student Vocational Choice and Awareness as well as Personal Development in a Transition to Adulthood through a Meaningful "Action Learning" Program. Final Report.
Quelle	(1977), (85 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Career Development; Career Exploration; Cooperative Programs; Educational Objectives; Grade 11; High Schools; Models; Nontraditional Education; Program Design; Program Development; Program Effectiveness; School Community Programs; Secondary School Students; Student Evaluation; Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsentwicklung; Berufserkundung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; High school; Oberschule; Analogiemodell; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Programme design; Programmaufbau; Programmplanung; Sekundarschüler; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung
Abstract	A project involving thirty-nine eleventh grade students was undertaken at a senior high school to plan and initiate a community-based action learning program to provide students with a meaningful cooperative school-community work learning experience. Specific curriculum requirements were met through a combination of independent study, interdisciplinary study, or traditional classroom study, and students were evaluated twice during the eighteen-week semester on the accomplishment of objectives established by the student, advisor, and field site representative. Twelve project outcomes indicated that the program has become an alternative to the traditional school: Students' attitudes toward school became more positive; results in the Vocational Maturity Inventory Scale indicated increased career awareness; field site sponsors and parents sent numerous data to verify students' increased self-esteem and confidence; and plans have been established to develop many of the outcomes into a model for a community-based learning program. (The appendix, comprising one-half of the report, includes an application form; placement and sponsor's participant agreement forms; a typical field site resume; seminar objectives; curriculum objectives for English, social studies, and physical education; evaluation data results; and program and student evaluation questionnaires.) (EM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC