Job Survival Skills of Youthful Offenders: A Needs Assessment and Curriculum Development Project. Final Report.

Autor/inn/en	Wiederanders, Mark R.; und weitere
Institution	California State Dept. of the Youth Authority, Sacramento.
Titel	Job Survival Skills of Youthful Offenders: A Needs Assessment and Curriculum Development Project. Final Report.
Quelle	(1978), (113 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Development; Delinquency; Educational Needs; Employment Interviews; Employment Problems; Interpersonal Competence; Job Application; Job Skills; Learning Modules; Motivation; Needs Assessment; Persistence; Research Reports; Vocational Adjustment; Vocational Interests; Youth Employment; Youth Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Kriminalität; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Employment interview; Employment interviewing; Einstellungsgespräch; Bewerbungsgespräch; Beschäftigungssituation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Bewerbung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Learning module; Lernmodul; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Bedarfsermittlung; Ausdauer; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Personalanpassung; Berufsinteresse; Youth work; Jugendarbeit
Abstract	The purpose of this project was to assess needs in job survival skills of those persons released from California Youth Authority incarceration and then to develop and field-test a curriculum to upgrade the skills which appear weakest. Interviews of a representative sample of 145 parolees were conducted. Findings include some of the following: over 90 percent had found work during the first year of parole, but jobs were lost or given up very rapidly; typically, jobs were low-paying and required few skills; about 30 percent had been fired from at least one job, and 66 percent had quit at least one job; and problems in interpersonal relationships on the job were related both to being fired from a job and to quitting. These findings were used to develop a high-activity, low reading level course consisting of five modules: (1) motivation and orientation to job survival skills; (2) matching skills and interests to jobs; (3) job seeking skills; (4) job getting skills; and (5) job maintenance skills. In a field-test of the course, there were some significant pre- post-class attitude changes about work among twenty-six completers, and the course received very high ratings by students. Subsequent employment indicators of participants were judged as being favorable. (Author/JH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC