CAREER DEVELOPMENT
INTERVENTION IN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The National Standards for School Counseling Programs; American School Counselor
Association; National Model for School Counseling - ANS identify career development as
essential element in effective school counseling programs.
The National Standards - ANS developed to address growing need for standardization and
accountability in school counseling programs.
Consists of 4 components:
1) The Foundation
2) The Delivery System
3) The Management System
4) The Accountability System
The Foundation - ANS consists of program philosophy statements; it connects with the
mission of the school and contains information regarding expected student competencies in 3
domains:
1) academic
2) career
3) social/personal development
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,There are also 9 standards (3 per domain) that are each connected to student competencies
linked to specific knowledge and skills students will develop as outcomes of their exposure to
school counseling program.
Career Development Domain in National Standards contains following standards, competencies
& indicators - ANS Standard A: Students will acquire skills to investigate world-of-work in
relationship of self to make informed career decisions (p. 325)
Standard B: Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and
satisfaction (p. 326)
Standard C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education,
training, & the world-of-work. (p. 326)
National Standards represent comprehensive & holistic view of career development. Can seem
overwhelming.
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational & Adult Education (OVAE) revises National
Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) - ANS Goals:
1) Update & revise framework of competencies & indicators to align with goals of No Child Left
Behind;
2) Expand target audiences to include K-12 students and their parents, teachers, counselors &
administrators, post-secondary students and other adults & business community;
3) Provide target audiences with accessible career development information, learning activities,
& strategies that lead to informed career decision making
4) create career development Web site to deliver career development information, learning
activities & strategies
(p. 327)
Revised National Career Development Guidelines - ANS Framework organized into 3
domains.
There are goals for each domain and mastery indicators for each goal;
indicators grouped by learning stage.
Domains - ANS 1) Personal Social Development (PS)
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, 2) Educational Achievement and Lifelong Learning
3) Career Management (CM)
domains provide parallel to National School Counseling Model; each contains goals that define
broad areas of career development competency;
Each goal in framework are mastery indicators that highlight the knowledge and skills needed
to achieve that goal;
Each indicator presented in 3 LEARNING STAGES based on Bloom's Taxonomy: knowledge
acquisition, application, & reflection
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEW & LAST:
current guidelines are no tied to an individual's age or level of education
-this acknowledges both heterogeneity in career development and the fact that people recycle
through career development tasks.
Persons engaged with KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION STAGE TASKS: - ANS focus on expanding
knowledge awareness & building comprehension; have capacity to recall, recognize, describe,
identify, clarify, discuss, explain, summarize, query, investigate, & compile new information
about the knowledge they have acquired.
Persons at APPLICATION STAGE - ANS able to apply acquired knowledge to situations and to
self;
seek out ways to use the knowledge; have capacity to demonstrate, employ, perform, illustrate,
& solve problems related to the knowledge they have acquired.
Persons engaged with REFLECTIVE-STAGE tasks - ANS have capacity to analyze, synthesize,
judge, assess & evaluate knowledge in light of their own goals, values and beliefs;
decide whether to integrate acquired knowledge into ongoing response to situations and
whether to adjust behavior accordingly.
NCDG Framework - ANS uses coding system to identify domains, goals, indicators and
learning stages.
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INTERVENTION IN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The National Standards for School Counseling Programs; American School Counselor
Association; National Model for School Counseling - ANS identify career development as
essential element in effective school counseling programs.
The National Standards - ANS developed to address growing need for standardization and
accountability in school counseling programs.
Consists of 4 components:
1) The Foundation
2) The Delivery System
3) The Management System
4) The Accountability System
The Foundation - ANS consists of program philosophy statements; it connects with the
mission of the school and contains information regarding expected student competencies in 3
domains:
1) academic
2) career
3) social/personal development
pg. 1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
,There are also 9 standards (3 per domain) that are each connected to student competencies
linked to specific knowledge and skills students will develop as outcomes of their exposure to
school counseling program.
Career Development Domain in National Standards contains following standards, competencies
& indicators - ANS Standard A: Students will acquire skills to investigate world-of-work in
relationship of self to make informed career decisions (p. 325)
Standard B: Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and
satisfaction (p. 326)
Standard C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education,
training, & the world-of-work. (p. 326)
National Standards represent comprehensive & holistic view of career development. Can seem
overwhelming.
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational & Adult Education (OVAE) revises National
Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) - ANS Goals:
1) Update & revise framework of competencies & indicators to align with goals of No Child Left
Behind;
2) Expand target audiences to include K-12 students and their parents, teachers, counselors &
administrators, post-secondary students and other adults & business community;
3) Provide target audiences with accessible career development information, learning activities,
& strategies that lead to informed career decision making
4) create career development Web site to deliver career development information, learning
activities & strategies
(p. 327)
Revised National Career Development Guidelines - ANS Framework organized into 3
domains.
There are goals for each domain and mastery indicators for each goal;
indicators grouped by learning stage.
Domains - ANS 1) Personal Social Development (PS)
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, 2) Educational Achievement and Lifelong Learning
3) Career Management (CM)
domains provide parallel to National School Counseling Model; each contains goals that define
broad areas of career development competency;
Each goal in framework are mastery indicators that highlight the knowledge and skills needed
to achieve that goal;
Each indicator presented in 3 LEARNING STAGES based on Bloom's Taxonomy: knowledge
acquisition, application, & reflection
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEW & LAST:
current guidelines are no tied to an individual's age or level of education
-this acknowledges both heterogeneity in career development and the fact that people recycle
through career development tasks.
Persons engaged with KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION STAGE TASKS: - ANS focus on expanding
knowledge awareness & building comprehension; have capacity to recall, recognize, describe,
identify, clarify, discuss, explain, summarize, query, investigate, & compile new information
about the knowledge they have acquired.
Persons at APPLICATION STAGE - ANS able to apply acquired knowledge to situations and to
self;
seek out ways to use the knowledge; have capacity to demonstrate, employ, perform, illustrate,
& solve problems related to the knowledge they have acquired.
Persons engaged with REFLECTIVE-STAGE tasks - ANS have capacity to analyze, synthesize,
judge, assess & evaluate knowledge in light of their own goals, values and beliefs;
decide whether to integrate acquired knowledge into ongoing response to situations and
whether to adjust behavior accordingly.
NCDG Framework - ANS uses coding system to identify domains, goals, indicators and
learning stages.
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