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Western Kentucky University

1978

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Adult and Continuing Education

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The Effects Of Certain Value Clarification Activities Upon Job Corps Enrollees, Donald Nims Dec 1978

The Effects Of Certain Value Clarification Activities Upon Job Corps Enrollees, Donald Nims

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Job Corps program is designed to provide academic and vocational training to high school dropouts. It is assumed that in order for a young person to succeed in our society certain values, such as good health, education, job satisfaction, and desire to earn an acceptable pay, are required. Job Corps seeks to foster these values in the young men and women who enter this training program. To evaluate the effectiveness of this process a study was conducted regarding the effect of value clarification on male Job Corps enrollees. Over a ninety-day period an experimental group of twenty (20) enrollees …