Borden, McKay2014-03-142014-03-141993-05-19etd-10102005-131614http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39731This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of the following career guidance strategies: career information investigating, job information interviewing, shadowing, panel of positive female role models, parental involvement and group counseling on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females. Participants in this study were thirty-two high-achieving twelfth-grade females currently enrolled in advanced placement English classes, who were currently taking advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses; or who had completed three years of advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses. The design of this experiment was a pretest-posttest, experimental/control group design. The participants in the treatment group participated in a ten-week career guidance program involving strategies to increase career maturity and improve internal locus of control utilizing the results of the Career Maturity Inventory, Counseling Form B-1 and the Different Situations Inventory.x, 174 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V856 1993.B673Counseling in secondary education -- United StatesGifted girls -- Counseling of -- United StatesWomen -- Employment -- United StatesWomen -- Vocational guidance -- United StatesDissertationhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10102005-131614/