AERA Vocational Education Special Interest Group Proceedings. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-16, 1993).

Overview & Synopsis

This conference report contains the following 18 papers: "State Policies and State Vocational Education Director Perceptions Pertinent to Career-oriented Education in the Middle Grades" (Barrick, Hughes); "Complying with Perkins: Using Existing Tests To Measure Academic Gains for Vocational Education Students" (Bergstrom, Gershon); "Teachers' Roles in Integrating Academic and Vocational Education: A Conceptual Framework" (Finch, Schmidt, Faulkner); "The Long Term Effects of Secondary and Postsecondary Educational Attainment on Yearly Earnings: Is Gender an Issue?" (Gray); "Limitations on Local Accountability in Vocational Education" (Hanser, Stecher); "A Mosaic of Diversity: Vocationally Undecided Students and the Perry Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development" (Jones, Newman); "Dropout in Senior Secondary Vocational Education" (Lokman); "Redirecting Secondary Vocational Education toward the 21st Century" (Lynch, Smith, Rojewski); "The Impact of Vocational Training and Employment during Secondary School on Postsecondary Outcomes of SED [Serious Emotional Disturbances] Graduates" (McCall, Burns, Zigmond); "Life Cycles of Attainment Targets for Job-Related Curricula" (Mulder, Laret, Maslowski); "Using Concept Mapping Techniques to Compare Stakeholder Groups' Perceptions of Tech Prep" (Roegge et al.); "Variables that Predict Level of Job Satisfaction and Intent To Leave Present Employment among Secondary Teachers of Vocational/Technical Education in the United States" (Tanner, Warr); "Comparison of the Perceptions of Displaced Homemaker Program Clients and Administrators in Louisiana" (Trott, Burnett, Holden); "The Determination of Statistical Sophistication of Research in Vocational Education" (Zhang); "Vocationalism and Social Efficacy: The Chinese Model" (Zhang); "Reconceptualizing Vocational Education with Concept Mapping" (Bragg, Harmon); "Survey of Teachers' Implementation and Perception of Agriscience and Natural Resource Curriculum" (Conners, Elliot); and "Cooperative Vocational Education" (Stone et al.). (KC)