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Research

Here you will find copies of research reports commissioned by Careers Scotland and links to other relevant research.

Please note that until 1 April 2008 Careers Scotland was part of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise and research conducted before this date will reflect that involvement. Careers Scotland is now part of Skills Development Scotland.

Career Planning/Careers Guidance

• Assessing Individual Need (PDF format - 2.5MB)
• Careers Scotland - Demonstrating Impact (PDF format 1MB)
• The Development of Careers Scotland's Service Delivery Framework (PDF format 357KB)
• The Careers Planning Professional (PDF format - 99kb) Chapter on Careers Scotland 
• Production Value: Futures for professionalism (PDF format - 730kb) Full report
• Review of Assessment Tools to support Guidance & Placing Activities (Word 171KB)
• Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-109kb) Executive Summary
• Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-271kb) Full Report
• Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format -92kb) Executive Summary 
• Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format 220KB) Full Report
• School students part-time employment (PDF-101kb) Executive Summary
• School students part-time employment (PDF-240kb) Full Report

Equal Opportunities

• Gender Stereotyping of Career Choice (PDF format - 209 kb)

OECD Reports

• Progress and Potential (OECD) - Executive Summary (PDF format 1.4MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
• Progress and Potential (OECD) (PDF format 23MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
• Progress and Potential (OECD) National Questionnaire Response (PDF format 1.4MB) - A case study framed in accordance with the OECD Career Guidance policy review

WorkNet

• WorkNet Model of Career Planning and Employability (PDF fomat - 185 kb)
  

Web Links

• The National Guidance Research Forum website - aims to bring practice and research closer together. The site is for practitioners, managers, trainers, researchers and policy makers or anyone with an interest in guidance.

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