This manual is part of a kit consisting of four documents which bring together different types of items that measure a number of career and occupational development (COD) objectives developed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). (NAEP--which completed a national survey measuring the achievement of knowledge, skills, understandings, and attitudes of young Americans in relation to COD objectives in the major learning areas--designed the kit to assist those faced with evaluating or assessing the need for career education programs. Suggested uses also include using it to make general comparisons with NAEP national age-level results, as a diagnostic instrument, as a basis for generating a tailored career education evaluation instrument, and as suggestions for content or activities for career education programs.) Following a summarization of the COD objectives, this manual, in four chapters, provides information on how to use the materials in the kit, including how to administer the assessment items and how to interpret the results. Four appendixes comprise approximately half the document and include a guide to survey sampling (twenty pages); a table of items showing administration type, scoring type, and timing; definitions of National Assessment reporting groups; and National Assessment scoring rules for open-ended items. (Each of the remaining three documents in the kit focuses on one of the following areas: objectives for COD, assessment items, and scoring items and tallying results.) (SH) Primary type of information provided by report: Procedures (Evaluation) (Replication).