The effects of the CISI process user handbook on high school students\u27 career maturity inventory scores

The Career Information Systems of Iowa (CISI) has produced a Process User Handbook (Department of Public Instruction, 1974) to help students explore their feelings, attitudes, and habits, as well as their skills, interests, and talents to explore the world of work. After completing the exploration process, each student is given the opportunity to compare his or her abilities and preferences to the world of work and to take a self-evaluation test which aids in clarifying his or her vocational preferences. Using a Needle-Sort Delivery system, job descriptions are matched to student\u27s preferences

An Innovative Partnership between National and Regional Partnerships: STARS Meets McPIE

The Students & Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Computing Corps is a nationally-connected system of regional partnerships among higher education, K-12 schools, industry and the community, with a mission to broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing (BPC). With support from National Science Foundation funding, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte founded the STARS Alliance (now the STARS Computing Corps) which includes 44 universities, each with its own “constellation” of local and regional partnerships. McClintock Partners in Education (McPIE) is a partnership between a middle school, a church, and their surrounding community. This paper describes how a STARS-McPIE “partnership between partnerships” has impacted both the middle school students and their college student mentors