The purpose of this study was to design a computerized guidance system for career planning and to investigate the effect of this system on undecided university students. This system was constructed by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) procedure. Using this system, twenty university students simulated their career decision making. They were divided into three groups according to the answers in a pre test. Groupl(n=5): The degrees of the interest and the knowledge of career decision making were very low. Group2 (n=8): The degree of the interest was high and the degree of knowledge was low. Group3(n=7): The degrees of the interest and the knowledge of career decision making were very high. In a post test, the students in Group 1 scored significantly higher on the scale of interest of career decision making. The students in Groups scored significantly higher on the scale of knowledge of the prediction for career planning. The result suggested that this system increased their interests of career planning and gave them some effective supports in career planning.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how nursing school selection and the existent practice of career counseling for student nurses influence occupational identity formation of student nurses, and to determine what career counseling on students who are aspiring to nursing jobs should be. 1057 nursing students answered an occupational identity status test created by myself, and a questionnaire about the current state of career selection and student career counseling. Out of 1057 responses, we obtained 788 (74.6%) valid answers. We concluded from our results that career guidance to nursing school is insufficient. Occupational identity formation was strongly influenced by the timing of career decision making. The decision factors of occupational identity formation are, hesitation of career selection such as "there might be a more suitable job for me", passive reasons such as "cannot find any other career", positive reasons to go to nursing school such as "in order to acquire useful knowledge and techniques", "interest and aptitude" and "aspiring and deciding to go to nursing school from childhood". It turned out that these were the main decision factors. Resultantly, some conceptions were obtained concering the timing and method of career counseling for student nurses.

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The purpose of this study is to search for factors of transition of aspiration for teaching profession in case of faculty of education. Subjects were 188 4th grade undergraduates. The subjects were devided into four groups in terms of state of aspiration for teaching profession at the time when they entered the college and when they made the final decision (June in their 4th grade). The groups were (a)consistent aspiration, (b)ceasing from aspiration, (c)change to aspiration, and (d)consistent non-aspiration. Group(a) and (b) were compared, and group(c) and (d) were also compared. The main results were follows. 1. Group(a) showed a tendency to have expected the intrinsic role of college at the time of thier entrance into college than (b). 2. Group(a) had a tendency to have a model image of an ideal teacher until they entered the college than (b). 3. Student-teaching experience was very closely related to the final state of their aspiration. 4. Group(b) showed more rate of having gotten not only negative but positive image of teacher's job from lecturers or their lecture than (a). 5. Group(a) showed more anxiety about examination of teaching profession than (b). Group(c) were the same than (d). 6. Using a kind of discrimination analysis, a group of variables which were individually related to the state of aspiration could distinct well between group(a) and (b), and between group(c) and (d).

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The purpose of this paper is to explore factors that construct vocational value and to clarify the relationship between student's vocational value formation and classroom activity in junior high school. Eight factors consisting in vocational value are identified from questionnaire survey of 469 junior high school students in the second grade. We conducted teaching experiment of classroom activities using the typical teaching materials on "appropriate vocational value formation" in special activity for two student groups from the beginning of May to the end of June. One group is control class that teacher don't practice classroom activity. Another group is experimental class that teacher practice planned classroom activity three times. The following conclusion were derived from result. 1. There were marked differences of vocational value between two groups. The vocational values of experimental class students varied in wide range more than control class students. 2. It was found that planned classroom activity strongly influenced on the student's vocational value formation. From the above result we suggest that planned classroom activity can form the appropriate vocational value in junior high school.

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This special report describes activities of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG) and Japn's commitments to the intenationalization of career guidance study. Career guidance study has been increasingly internationalized since the IAEVG was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1951. With the help of member countries and rising social and educational demands for its activities, the Associarion has gained a lot of prestige for the past half century. As for Japan, many scholars from all over the world came to our country after World War II, offering us lessons and suggestions for promoting career guidance. In recent years,more and more Japanese members go abroad to study this subject, too, From the perspective of promoting career guidance study at the multinational level, this report includes the followings: 1. The organization of the IAEVG (objectives, activities, board members, budget, etc.) 2. Practical activities of the IAEVG (locations and themes of conferences and other activities). 3. Japan's commitments to the internationalization of career guidance study (lists of foreign scholars who visited Japan, Japanese member's activities in foreign countries, etc.). 4. Problems of and prospects for Japan's commitments to the internationalization of career guidance study in the future. I hope that this report will help developing activities of the Association and shaping the course of career guidance in the future.

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This is a Japanese translation of Ethical Standards published by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance. This translation is not approved by the Japanese Society for Study of Career Guidance. These documents were adopted by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and published in its journal "Educational and Vocational Guidance Bulletin" (No.58/1996, pp.1-19).

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