This second of the two-part proceedings of an Australian conference on youth schooling and unemployment contains 25 research reports and texts from two symposia on alienation from school to work, and youth in transition. Focus of the papers is on educational practices and specific problems in the area of educational research. Topics covered in individual reports include teacher perceptions about selection, distribution, and use of curriculum materials; conducting research on student evaluations of teaching; using computers in research; combining achievement scores across disciplines to obtain territory entrance scores; economics of unemployment and recurrent education; motivations for entering teaching; student learning preferences and the classroom learning atmosphere; practical and theoretical implications of findings concerning teaching procedures; formation of educational and occupational aspirations in adolescents; analysis of data from attitude measures; factors affecting occupational choice; school leavers in rural areas; work experience; cost effectiveness of secondary cooperative vocational education; post-school education and employment; structural change and youth unemployment; school to work transition among migrant youth; and converting memory protocols to scores on several dimensions. (The first part of these proceedings is available separately through ERIC--see note.) (MN)