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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED186049 AUTHOR: Tulloch, Jacquelyn B.
TITLE: Identification and Elimination of Sex Stereotyping
and Sex Bias in Vocational Guidance and Counseling at
Piedmont Virginia Community College: Annual Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 30 p.; Appendices E, F, H, and K were deleted due to
irreproducibility
ABSTRACT: The OPTIONS Project was undertaken at Piedmont
Virginia Community College (PVCC) to identify and eliminate
sex stereotyping in vocational guidance. As part of this
effort, a series of workshops was held that resulted in a
heightened sensitivity, on the part of counselors, to sex
stereotyping and greater awareness of the problem in the
college at large. Another component of the project resulted
in the evaluation of career resource materials at the
career library and the development of a procedure for
assessing new materials as they are added to the
collection. Additionally, the project sought to investigate
the causes of math anxiety and explore ways of eliminating
it. Efforts in this area included a one-day workshop and
two seminars for counselors and instructional staff that
focused on reducing math anxiety, as well as the piloting
of an open math lab and the development of support
materials. Finally, in order to achieve objectives related
to the planning and implementation of programs and the
development of materials responding to the needs of PVCC
women, visits were made to model programs at other
colleges, four seminars on sex bias and stereotyping were
conducted for students, and career materials designed for
women were purchased. The project report is appended by
materials related to project activities, including
questionnaires, survey results, descriptive materials, and
time-tables. (AYC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Counselor-Training;
Evaluation-Methods; Inservice-Education; Learning
Laboratories; Nontraditional-Occupations; Questionnaires-;
Resource-Materials; Seminars-; Sex-Fairness; Sex
Stereotypes; Two-Year-Colleges; Workshops-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Career-Guidance; *Community-Colleges;
*Faculty-Development; *Females-; *Mathematics-Anxiety; *Sex
Bias
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