Teaching students to make sound decisions based on self-awareness and career awareness is the goal of vocational guidance. Industrial arts experiences can develop the decision-making skills handicapped students need to select, train for, enter, and progress in an occupation. (SK)

A study of 107 graduates of industrial arts teacher education programs found statistically significant relationships between Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and grade point average (GPA); between SAT scores and major GPA; especially between combined math and verbal scores and major GPA. It was concluded that SAT scores are important factors…

Responses to the Stages of Concern Questionnaire by 42 of 59 technology education/industrial arts teachers in Nebraska revealed that technology education is not accepted by industrial arts teachers. Older, more experienced teachers are revising or altering technology education curriculum before accepting it. (SK)

Technology education (TE) has come to encompass many facets of curriculum, ranging from industrial arts (IA) to integrating problem-solving and engineering concepts into the curriculum. For technology educators who have chosen the pre-engineering problem-solving route there is a pre-engineering curriculum called Project Lead The Way (PLTW), that…

Based on the efforts to infuse engineering practices within the technology education curriculum it is appropriate to now investigate how technology education teachers are assessing engineering design activities within their classrooms. This descriptive study drew a full sample of high school technology teachers from the current International…

The authors take the reader on a journey into the modern industrial education classroom as an exercise in awareness and offers questions so that teacher may evaluate themselves. (Author)

This inventory lists appropriate behaviors or skills for industrial arts teachers at the middle and secondary school levels in the following seven areas: (1) program and course organization, (2) teaching methodology, (3) educational technology and media use, (4) laboratory management, (5) observation, (6) student performance evaluation, and (7)…

Ascertaining the extent to which the objective, "understanding of industry," was being achieved in public secondary schools was the purpose of this study. Nine schools which offered industrial arts were randomly selected and nine schools which did not offer industrial arts were selected to form a comparison group. The Industrial Understanding…

The major purpose of this study was to investigate and provide relevant information on the use of innovative practices, such as methodology, teaching skills, etc., by industrial arts teacher educators who teach professional courses. Data were obtained from a synthesis of information retrieved from practicing industrial arts teacher educators and…

If industrial arts education is to survive in the 1980s, every teacher has two responsibilities: teach the basics in his or her own class and defend industrial arts as a basic subject. This article develops these concepts and provides specific methods for industrial arts teachers to use in teaching the basics in the context of their laboratory…

Discusses a plan of action to assist industrial arts teachers with curriculum materials. A survey questionnaire was sent to industrial arts teachers in Michigan and responses are reported concerning source of content for courses taught, source of assistance for improving courses, and how many new topics are being taught. (CT)

The chief conclusions of a national survey of secondary schools' industrial arts programs include the following: (1) there is a major shortage of industrial arts teachers; (2) program content has not changed appreciably; (3) enrollment of female students is increasing; and (4) most school shops are not equipped to accommodate the handicapped. (SK)