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ERIC Number: ED142630
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 26
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Improving the Designated Priority Skills of Reading and Mathematics Through the Career Awareness Program.
Chorost, Sherwood B.
This report evaluated the sixth year of the Career Awareness Program for elementary school students in New York City. The program was designed to interest, motivate, and improve language skills of students. Two activity modules, the Publishing Activity Centers (PAC) and the Industrial Arts Mobile Unit were used in the program. The PAC module was designed to improve reading and language skills. The Industrial Arts Mobile Unit was designed to teach shop safety, identification of shop tools, introductory occupational information and development and construction of a project. Sixty-nine students who participated in the program were evaluated. A teacher rating instrument was developed to measure the gains in interest, motivation and reading for the PAC unit. Additionally, a 42 item scale was adapted to measure knowledge of tool facts and career information in the Industrial Arts Unit. Teachers reported that the PAC program motivated most of the pupils to practice reading and writing. The results of the criterion referenced test developed for the Industrial Arts Unit indicated a change in student career awareness information between the time of the pre and the post test. (JP)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation.
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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