The purpose of this study is training on the decision process to make rational and optimal career choice. A pretest, three experiments and post test were planed. Subjects were 90 college students of faculty of education. They were divided into three groups, according to the degree of career choice. In pretest it was found that their knowledge of the decision process was a few in every group. So in the experiment 1, they learned how to make rational decisions with a decision-making model. In experiment 2, they tried to choose the university they could enter. In experiment 3, they simulated the career choice after their graduation. In posttest, it was found that of them understood the rational and optimal decision process It was shown that such training inproved the comprehension making decision and facilitated their career choice,and the knowledge of decision process was necessary for career choice.

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Recently,evaluation of career developmet is an important problem in career guidance practice. The purpose of the present longitudinal study is to investigate actual aspects of career development and to evaluate it in junior high school boys and girls. In this report, 179 female subjects were investigated into her desired course after junior high school, attitude to her future life or way of life, attitude to her vocational life and knowledge about concerned occupation,attitude to her desired course and knowledge about oriented high school, understanding her-self, degree of discuss future life, vocational life and course after junior high school with her parents.

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The present study investigated the developmental changes and sexual difference of the role saliance in Japanese adults, by using The Salient Inventory (SI), and compared the SI-scores of adults in Japan with those of adults in other countries. The procedure was (a)to make the Japanese version of the SI, and (b) to administer it to 605 male and 278 female adults. The main results were follows. (a) The internal consistency (alpha coefficients) for male was from .88 to .95 ,and from .87 to.96 for female. (b) We found the developmental changes of role salience both in males and females. In the case of male, Work role of Participation scale shows the highest score in their 40s. In the case of famale, the Home and family role in Participation scale was dominant, but the developmental changes were very few. We found the same trend in Commitment scale. However there were no developmental changes in Value Expectations scale. (c) We found the sexual difference of role salience. The female subjects show higher score of Home and Family role than male in participation scale. The Commitment scale shows the same trend. However, we did'nt find the sexual differrence in the role of Community Service and Leisure Activities. We found higher score of Work role in male and Leisure Activities. We found higher score of Work role in male and higher score of Home and Family role in female, in the Value Expections Scale. (d) Comparing the role salience of Japanese adults with that of adults in U.S. A. .Canada, Yugoslavia, we found that Japanese male adults show higher score of Work role and female adults show higher score of Leisure role.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of career guidance practices through academic subjects by correlating of educational and vocational career maturity with results of academic subjects or attitudes during school hours. In addition, this study is to consider that "learning of career" may facilitate career development of junior high-school students. The result of this study showed that the correlation between educational career maturity and results of academic subjects was significantly. On the other hand , vocational career development and attitudes during hours, revealed no significant. Finally, perhaps most importantly, this study suggested that "learning of career" facilitate career development on educational and vocational dimentions both. Therefore, the approarch to fostering the career development for students, particularly those likely to reinforce career guidance practices through "learning of career" in class activity curriculum.

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