Degree Name

Education Specialist (EdS)

Semester of Degree Completion

1979

Thesis Director

Gerhard C. Matzner

Abstract

A primary objective of the field experience consisted of conducting a feasibility study for the establishment of a Career Education Instructional Cooperative for the high schools within the Crawford Educational Service Region, Illinois.

Major employers, students in each Crawford County high school, and randomly selected parents of county high school students were surveyed as part of the study. The results indicated a need for skilled workers to fill a void in Crawford County businesses and industries. Projections were made by the employers surveyed to 1985. Employers favored the establishment of a Career Education Instructional Cooperative. Positive data were also retrieved from the 1056 students surveyed. Of this number, 385 juniors and seniors indicated an intent to enroll in programs if such a cooperative were made available. Students also provided information about other career-related programs they planned to pursue after high school graduation. Information provided by parents, who were surveyed, offered significant implications for the study. As with the employers and students, they too favored the establishment of a Career Education Instructional Cooperative for county high school students.

Recommendations for career-related course offerings, their location, staffing and budgeting were also offered in this field experience. It was the intent of the study to serve as a preliminary report for the establishment of a formal career program of studies effective for the 1979 to 1980 academic year.

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