EVOC 639 - Vocational Terminology and Quiz
Study Guide
QUIZ 1
1. - College vocational, or occupational programs, continuing career education or noncredit courses, correspondence courses and tutoring, as well as courses and other educational activities provided by employers, community groups, and other providers.
2. - A group serving strictly in an advisory capacity, with the educational policy remaining under the control of the superintendent of schools. It usually consists of seven to twelve persons (teachers, businesspersons, labor leaders, parents, and students). If a steering committee is used, some members may be asked to serve on it.
3. - A person who learns a trade by working under the guidance of a skilled master.
4. - Budget authority provided through congressional appropriation process that permits federal agencies to incur obligations and to make payments.
5. - A high school, a department of a high school, a technical institute or vocational school, a department or a division of a junior/community college, or a university used exclusively or principally to provide vocational education to students who are entering the labor market.
6. - Certain segments of society, all who have disabilities and/or disadvantages, such as members of minority groups, women, persons who are economically and/or academically disadvantaged, and those who are physically and/or mentally disabled.
7. - An organization composed of vocational educators whose members receive the profession's journal. Other services include professional leadership opportunities, annual conventions, and professional relationship services with membership involvement and other associations.
8. - Formal learning and training for individuals with limited English proficiency to prepare them for occupational entry and to provide them with instruction in the English language so that they will be able to pursue such occupations in an English language environment.
9. - The vocational organization for those secondary and post-secondary students enrolled in vocational business education programs.
10. - Used to denote a ministerial position. It may also be used to denote any vocation in which an individual is employed who regards their vocation as an end in itself, and one from which they receive a high degree of personal satisfaction.
11. - The term career guidance and counseling means programs that (a) pertain to the body of subject matter and related techniques and methods organized for the development in individuals of career awareness, career planning, career decision-making, placement skills, and knowledge and understanding of local, state, and national occupational, educational, and labor market needs, trends, and opportunities; (b) assist individuals in making and implementing informed educational and occupational choices; and (c) aid students to develop career options with attention to surmounting gender, race, ethnicity, disability, language, or socioeconomic impediments to career options and encouraging careers in nontraditional employment.
12. - The purpose of this Commission was to determine (1) the need for vocational education, (2) the need for federal grants, (3) the kinds of vocational education for which grants should be made, (4) the extent and conditions under which aid should be granted, and (5) proposed legislation.
13. - The national vocational organization for secondary and post-secondary students who are enrolled in marketing education programs.
14. - A local student organization consisting of marketing education students.
15. - Referring to those student's, ages 3 to 21, who are disabled mentally, educationally, and/or physically. They may be in public elementary and secondary schools or they may have been placed in private schools by public agencies.
- - Characterizing individuals who are economically and/or academically disadvantaged to the extent that they cannot actively participate in vocational programs.