The purpose of this study was to examine the student performance and student satisfaction in two courses offered by the University of Minnesota to in-service career and technical education teachers who were preparing to teach occupational programs at the high school or technical college level. The study compared the student performance and…

Interviews with secondary and postsecondary teachers and administrators in Minnesota tech prep consortia found that most understood the role of articulation agreements, but little attention was paid to actual compliance. Postsecondary institutions received little funding for implementing agreements. Consortia did not appear to be achieving the…

A survey of 79 industrial teacher educators received 57 responses indicating the following: most programs combine multiple areas of industrial education; 68% were not in colleges of education; and most were optimistic that demand for industrial education will increase in the future. (JOW)

This article examines the significance of problems addressed in recent vocational education research published in volumes 4 and 5 of the "Journal of Vocational Education Research" and volumes 16 and 17 of the "Journal of Industrial Teacher Education." (SSH)

A study examined career and professional development activities of 250 postsecondary and adult instructors who did not have education degrees and who had been teaching five years. Information on age, prior education, vocational field membership, occupational mobility, teaching experience, attrition, and development of teaching competence and…

The author outlines the history of instructional design for industrial training. He describes the Performance-Based Instructional Design system, with seven key components: (1) program description, (2) content analysis, (3) content selection, (4) content sequencing, (5) lesson structuring, (6) lesson delivery formatting, and (7) evaluation…

Investigates the need for teacher education activities which could be made available to part-time instructors of adult vocational education programs. Also explores what the format and content of such a program should be. (CT)

The usefulness of the Vocational Development Inventory as a counseling aid and the effect of post-secondary vocational training on vocational maturity are examined. (MU)

The Occupational Math Requirements Assessment (OSMA) was created, validated, and administered to three teams of secretaries and three teams of electronics technicians. Secretaries identified 34 job tasks requiring math and using 17 of 63 OSMA operations. Technicians named 45 that used 38 of the 63 operations. Results support teaching adults…

Data from two groups of cosmetology instructors (n=15) and two groups of machinist instructors (n=17) validated the Occupational Affective Behavior Analysis instrument as capable of identifying affective behaviors viewed as important to success in a given occupation. (SK)