Deck 17: Career Related Programs for Career Development in High School and Beyond

Question 1

The American School Counselor Association standards contain an overriding goal attached to employment readiness of high school graduates that is designed to prepare them for all of the following. Select the overriding goal. ​

A)Understanding the importance of accepting responsibility
B)Preparing a résumé to present to prospect employers
C)Understanding the employer's responsibility to workers
D)Learning how to act during an interview for a prospective job

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Briefly discuss the state of cognitive development and learning of adolescents in high school. ​

Answer 2

MAJOR POINTS
Students can mentally manipulate more than two categories of variables simultaneously.
One is able to foresee consequences of his or her actions.
One can detect correct logical assumptions and inconsistent ones.
One is able to focus on changes that can come with time.
One is able to distinguish reality from possibility. ​

Question 3

Which statement is true regarding career and technology education? ​

A)Programs focus on classroom learning rather than a combination of education and work experience
B)Mentoring students on a job site does not have advantages
C)Career preparation, formerly known as cooperative education, now consists of a combination of classroom training and on-the-job training
D)Internships are conducted on campus

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Job Bank is associated with the U.S. Employment Services and provides listing of job orders in: ​

A)The local community only
B)The government sector
C)Only major industries
D)One's state of residence

Question 5

What are some of the benefits of community colleges?

A)More viable financially than four-year colleges
B)Community colleges offer college courses that can be transferred to four-year institutions of higher education
C)Offer a variety of courses, including skilled trades
D) ​All of the above

Question 6

During high school, adolescents have developed which new enhanced conceptual skills, as compiled by Newman and Newman (2003) from the work of Neimark (1982) and Gray (1990)?

A)Ability to think about changes that come with time and the ability to hypothesize logical sequence of events
B)Ability to manipulate mentally more than two categories of variables simultaneously
C)Ability to foresee consequences of actions; ability to detect logical consistency or inconsistency in a set of statements; and ability to think in relativistic ways about self, others and the world
D) ​All of the above

Question 7

Briefly discuss the significance of understanding the concept of life roles and their interrelationships. ​

Question 8

The complexity of programs needed in career centers in a metropolitan area gives rise to a model that must be able to provide a wide range of services for currently enrolled students as well as for alumni and others in the community seeking assistance and/or career redirection. What is the name of this model? ​

A)A complex model
B)A metroplex model
C)A metro-complex model
D)A metropolitan model

Question 9

Choose the statement that is incorrect.

A)Tech-prep includes a comprehensive program for students in middle school and an individualized career and educational plan for high school graduates
B)Tech-prep is a national strategy designed to ensure that students exit high school or a community/technology college with marketable skills for job placement, have academic credentials to pursue higher education or both
C)Innovative career-counseling programs that provide information about high-demand occupations is not included in tech-prep
D)Tech-prep means integrated academics and technical training for secondary, postsecondary and apprenticeship students, plus curriculum development to meet the skills requirements of advanced technology jobs

Question 10

What are the key factors to emphasize in career development infusion? ​

A)Decision-making skills
B)Knowledge of occupations and job placement
C)Job placement only
D) ​Both A and B

Question 11

College awareness and readiness programs for low-income students usually begins the: ​

A)Senior year in high school
B)First year in high school
C)First year in middle school
D)Junior year in high school

Question 12

Briefly explain some career-related programs in universities.

Question 13

Which statement is not accurate with regard to job shadowing? ​

A)Job-shadowing programs require colleges and universities to make certain that work observation will be meaningful and constructive
B)Students do not have an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned
C)Usually takes place during semester breaks
D)Gives college students a window to view future work environments

Question 14

What is the name of the consortium of high schools that has formed to use the combined expertise of its professional staff to develop materials and counseling strategies designed to accomplish its collective career guidance mission? ​

A)The Central Nebraska Tech-Prep Consortium
B)The American consortium
C)The American states consortium of high schools
D)The New York consortium

Question 15

High school students are capable of solving problems through a series of thought processes as a result of:

A) ​l ists of the material they know well.
B) ​t he influence of family and friends.
C) ​in formation-processing skills development.
D) the enormous amount of career information available.

Question 16

Compare goals and related activities of intern and extern programs.

Question 17

Who has entered into partnerships with state departments of education and local school districts to support programs that stress college awareness and readiness for low-income students? ​

A)Private companies
B)The U.S. Department of Career Development
C)The U.S. Department of Education
D) ​President Obama

Question 18

One of the career development programs currently used in universities that should increase in popularity is: ​

A)Visits by foreign industries to fill key jobs
B)Credit courses in career development for freshmen
C)Placement activities from the private sector
D)Providing students with actual work experience

Question 19

The hallmark of career and technology education is: ​

A)Teaching critical thinking for use on a job
B)Immediate placement on a job in the local community
C)Teaching problem-solving skills for future use on a job
D)Integrating classroom and on-the-job instruction

Question 20

Examples of services offered in career-related programs in four-year institutions of higher education include: ​

A) ​a ssessment services for career counseling, educational information, career planning, job interviewing and effective use of self-help materials.
B) ​s elf-knowledge information, decision making, information about the global economy and the work world, and job-hunting techniques.
C) ​both A and B.
D) ​none of the above.

Question 21

High school is the time when students are to:

A)Take more independent actions
B)Choose work after graduation
C)Delay decision-making
D)Rely on the counselor to decide for them

Question 22

Helping students understand the stressors of work responsibility, having students identify individuals who recently attained a position of prominence and comparing changes in lifestyle are an example of what type of career development strategy?

A)Overcoming gender-role stereotyping
B)Career planning strategy
C)Educational and occupational exploration strategy
D)Self-knowledge strategy

Question 23

What name is now considered to be more appropriate for locations that provide career-related services?

A)Placement services
B)Career centers
C)Placement centers
D)Career services

Question 24

What seems to be the overriding goal of employment readiness?

A)Attending a community college, university and/or tech-prep program
B)How to apply for a job
C)Preparing students to understand the importance of accepting responsibility for being a dependable worker
D)Learning how to prepare a resume

Question 25

Career development programs in the high school that use infusion techniques in the classroom have: ​

A)Completely disappeared
B)Been limited
C)Not changed
D)Increased because of demand

Question 26

Through what means are counselors provided with goals and competencies from which they can develop group and individual counseling strategies for high school students? ​

A)National standards for school counselors developed by the ASCA (2003)
B)Standards set by the counselors themselves
C)Standards set by the individual schools
D)National standards compiled by students

Question 27

Describe the variety of clientele a career planning and placement center may serve in a metropolitan area.

Question 28

Briefly explain some career-related programs in high school. ​

Question 29

College preparation programs in high schools: ​

A)Are viable counseling objectives in most schools
B)Have become less popular
C)Are viewed as programs that should be offered by colleges
D)Are only offered in locations where parents can afford college

Question 30

Who has commented that placement should be viewed as a vital function and a continuation of career development programs? ​

A) ​Sharf
B)Federal and state agencies
C)Gysbers and Henderson
D)Herr, Cramer and Niles

Question 31

Briefly discuss the importance of the high school student's efficacy level of processing information. ​

Question 32

Identify some ways that college impacts the career development and choices of college students.

Question 33

Community colleges offer courses for: ​

A)Only technology training and skill building
B)College credit in selected courses while one is in high school
C)Only basic freshmen and sophomore level courses
D)Only skilled trade courses that are in demand

Question 34

In what way does an extern model benefit a student? ​

A)Provides student with an opportunity to observe ongoing activities in his or her major field of study and to interact with individuals on the job
B)The extern experience is of long duration and thus gives the student plenty of time to enjoy the experience
C)Provides the student with the opportunity to spend more time in a workplace and is more work-experience oriented
D)Students gain course credits

Question 35

Discuss the changes in college placement that have evolved over the past 20 years.

Question 36

Which of the following can help overcome gender-role stereotyping? ​

A)Role models
B)Biographies
C) ​Both A and B
D)Nothing can help overcome gender-role stereotyping

Question 37

What innovative program for delivering educational and vocational information was initiated at the Florida State University career center in 1975? ​

A)Curricular Career Information Service (CCIS)
B)Florida State Information Service (FSIS)
C)Florida State Curricular Career Information (FSCCI)
D)Modular Career Information Service (MCIS)

Question 38

What is a job bank? ​

A)A listing of all job orders compiled daily within each state and a principal source of job information
B)A career guidance list
C)A listing of finances related to jobs
D)A bank where employees can deposit their job earnings

Question 39

Examples of goals that focus on self-understanding and building a positive self-concept include which of the following sequences?

A)Identify abilities, skills and talents, determine how these traits could impact your career development and demonstrate the use of these traits
B)Determine how certain traits could impact your career development, demonstrate the use of these traits and identify abilities, skills and talents
C)Identify abilities, skills and talents, demonstrate the use of these traits and determine how these traits could impact your career development
D)Demonstrate the use of certain traits, identify abilities, skills and talents and determine how these traits could impact your career development

Question 40

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) standards are competency-based. Students are to acquire knowledge and demonstrate a level of awareness, and they should be able to demonstrate how the information learned can be used for: ​

A)Selecting career information
B)Improving their grades
C)The initial career choice
D)Dealing with future challenges

Question 41

Having students identify geographical factors that can affect career choice and comparing and contrasting differences in employment opportunities are an example of what type of career development strategy? ​

A)Self-knowledge strategy
B)Career planning strategy
C)Overcoming gender-role stereotyping
D)Educational and occupational exploration strategy