Deck 11: Career Development Interventions in Middle and High Schools

Question 1

What are the career development issues for middle/high school students who will attend college one day? Other postsecondary institutions? Go directly into the world of work?

Answer 1

No answer

Question 2

What are some strategies with working with at-risk youth with respect to their career development?

Answer 2

No answer

Question 3

Discuss ways in which counselors can get parents/guardians more/better involved in providing career development assistance to their children.

Answer 3

No answer

Question 4

What changes, if any, do you envision for the delivery of career planning and counseling in middle/high schools in the future?

Question 5

What strategies would you use to develop and implement a successful career development program in a secondary school setting?

Question 6

Why is it important to evaluate the effectiveness of career development programs in the schools?

Question 7

How do the National Career Development Guidelines enhance our ability to serve the career development needs of middle/ high school students?

Question 8

Identify and discuss two unique career development needs of middle/junior high school students.

Question 9

Identify and discuss two unique career development needs of high school students.

Question 10

An adolescent makes strides toward independence by developing

A) physically and psychologically.
B) maturity.
C) socially and physically.
D) socially and psychologically.

Question 11

Teachers, counselors, and curriculum designers expect middle school students to

A) make a career plan and stick to it for most of their career.
B) begin to know what careers are and how to write a resume to get the job they want.
C) learn about themselves and the world of work and then translate this learning into an educational plan for the remainder of their secondary school education.
D) wait until later to worry about career goals.

Question 12

The National Career Development Guidelines recommend that middle school students learn all of the following except

A) self-understanding.
B) family knowledge.
C) educational and occupational exploration.
D) career planning.

Question 13

It is important for career interventions to continue to stimulate curiosity in middle school students because

A) those who are curious about their emerging self-concepts are more likely to engage in exploratory behavior to acquire the information they need.
B) those who have no idea about the world of work need to be encouraged to look at a new concept.
C) students are rarely stimulated in middle school, but careers and career decisions interest them.
D) exploratory behavior leads to self-concept clarification, but only in regard to a career choice.

Question 14

The most useful foundation for the exploration process is provided by

A) aptitude tests.
B) skills inventories.
C) combining interest inventories with aptitude test results.
D) exposure to work.

Question 15

According to Super, the tasks of crystallizing, specifying, and implementing tentative career choices occur during all of the following stages except

A) early adulthood (21-24).
B) late adolescence (18-20).
C) middle adolescence (16-17).
D) early adolescence (12-15). .

Question 16

Acquiring reading and writing skills and a good attitude are all aspects of

A) career maturity.
B) workforce readiness.
C) self-knowledge.
D) values clarification.

Question 17

The readiness to cope with the various career development tasks confronting an individual is known as

A) career maturity.
B) workforce readiness.
C) self-knowledge.
D) values clarification.

Question 18

Crisis/exploration and commitment are central to the career development process developed by

A) Super.
B) Muuss.
C) Hansen.
D) Marcia.

Question 19

Appropriate career goals for high school students, as proposed by the National Career Development Guidelines, include all of the following except

A) self-knowledge.
B) educational and occupational exploration.
C) career development.
D) career planning.

Question 20

Suggestions provided in the text to encourage parental involvement in their children's career development include

A) provision for babysitting.
B) career guidance for parents.
C) evening information sessions and newsletters.
D) GED classes.

Question 21

Assessment tools to measure interests and abilities include all of the following except the

A) Self-Directed Search.
B) Differential Aptitude Test.
C) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
D) Career Assessment Inventory.

Question 22

Career choice readiness is important to adolescent career development because it is a necessary precursor to effective

A) retirement planning.
B) use of ability and interest assessment.
C) salary negotiations.
D) identity development.

Question 23

Career choice readiness includes

A) a planful attitude toward coping with career stages and tasks.
B) gathering information about educational and occupational opportunities.
C) exploring the world of work and knowing how to make a good decision.
D) all of the above.

Question 24

Indications of the qualities people desire and seek in activities in which they engage, in the situations in which they live, and in the objects they make or desire are all aspects of

A) career maturity.
B) workforce readiness.
C) values clarification.
D) career choice readiness.