MAGELLAN - Computerized Career Assessment and Exploration at its best!

A Career Assessment Program from Valpar

** Now available on a subscription basis. **

Higher Student Interest =
Higher Student Motivation =
Higher State Competency Scores – Fewer Drop-Outs!

What's the secret to increasing student interest?

When your students know what they want to do to earn a living — when they discover for themselves viable job options, and make the connection between school and later life, their motivation and interest in learning will rise dramatically. Magellan helps them make that connection!

Magellan is being used successfully in Special Education Programs across the country. — Helps develop Transition Plans and I.E.P.s that are meaningful to students and parents — easy and fun for teachers!

Download Magellan brochure here (PDF format).

Check out these great Magellan 6 features...

New Pictorial Holland Code Survey
Updated OOH Data
Full Audio for all Job Descriptions (using the latest "Text-to-Speech" technology)
The latest DOL Wage and Employment Data
Updated Internet Hot Links
Cross-referenced to the New “F” Series Vocational Biographies
Expanded Occupational Database — over 1250 Jobs (includes new O*Net)

Plus all the great features you've come to love in previous versions.

Academic Assessment Included
Cool Look and Fun Activities Kids Like
Over 250 On-line Video Clips
Self-directed, personalized, performance-based assessment
Nine different performance-based assessments and surveys
4-year Class Schedules Included - Can be Modified to Match Your School Curriculum!
Task-oriented Job Descriptions
Two pictorial interest surveys with Audio

Forced Choice
Ranked Order

Pictorial Temperament Survey with Audio
Colorful Student Reports Kids can Understand
Optional Curriculum Available
Cross-referenced to Vocational Biographies, and Delphi Award-winning Career Videos
Internet Hotlinks
Custom activity plans
Use throughout a student’s middle and high school years
A great tool for Transition Planning

Flexible to individual student needs • Flexible to time demands • Cool look and fun activities your students will enjoy doing • Integrate with academics • Use to develop goals and objectives • Teacher control over student-generated reports • Nine assessments including Interests, Aptitudes, and Temperaments • Pictorial Interest Surveys with sound • Cross-referenced to Delphi Career Videos, and Vocational Biographies • Now uses the latest Text-to-Speech Technology!

Optional complete curriculum with nine sessions of career planning • Lesson plans linked with computerized assessment • Curriculum guides students through self-knowledge and exploration of careers

Read what our customers are saying about Magellan.

Winner of the Curriculum Administrator Districts' Choice Award - Top 100 Products

How will your students discover their options?

Through serious exploration — not just one of those simple interest surveys. Your students deserve the best in career assessment. Give them Magellan!

THE ASSESSMENTS

The essential ingredient in Magellan that separates it from the pack is "career assessment". Assessment has been Valpar's business for 30 years and we now bring this expertise to career exploration.

Magellan uses 9 assessments and performance-based surveys to measure 12 interest areas and 27 criterion-referenced factors based on the U.S. Department of Labor's "Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs." Magellan's academic skills assessment is based on Valpar's field-proven assessment software. Magellan's surveys delve into physical skill factors, temperaments, interaction with people and data, and time commitment. Two interest surveys, and a Holland Code survey round out the suite.

The results of each assessment are used to explore Magellan's database of over 1250 occupations, each described in terms of the 27 factors. Explorers can see occupations related to their own skills, abilities, and desires. Just as importantly, they can see how lack of a particular skill can affect career choices.

DATA SOURCES

The explorer's goal is to find 5 Top Picks in the database. The assessment and survey tools provide a powerful method of exploring the database and the data sources give the explorer the necessary information to make their picks. Magellan's data sources include:

Job Descriptions in task-list form
Interest Information from the U.S. DOL's "Guide for Occupational Exploration"
The Occupational Outlook Handbook
Wage and employment information for each state
Over 250 Online video clips
Curriculum information
875 Vocational Biography career stories - See a sample. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Delphi Productions' Careers for the 21st Century Video Library® - covers 170 occupations
Delphi Productions' Emerging Careers Video Library™ - covers 30 occupations
Internet HotLinks
Your school's class schedules

Magellan is READY to GO

Like Ferdinand Magellan, Valpar's Magellan is ready to go:

It can run on one computer or a network
It can be self-directed, requiring little or no counselor intervention
It is easily configured to provide a fixed sequence of activities
Optional courseware is available, providing ready-to-use class curriculum
It can be used throughout a student's school career.

Magellan is very affordable. Call for pricing.
Look here for funding sources. (Grant list updated April 2006)

There are NO annual licensing fees. Magellan is also available bundled with Vocational Biographies and Delphi Videos at special discounted prices. (Ask about our Gold and Silver Explorer Series discount packages.)

Available in US and Canadian versions. [Canadian flag]

Our Quickstart Manuals are now available online in PDF format. version 4, version 5, version 6
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Download here:

Available Versions:

Stand Alone - one copy, for one computer
5-Station Lab Pack - 5 uses for 5 non-networked computers in one physical site*
Site - 50 uses for non-networked computers in one physical site*
Network - 50 concurrent users on one network, serving one physical site*
*(e.g. a high school campus)

System Requirements - Magellan 6

Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista (Magellan version 6.09 or later)
300 MHZ Pentium or better
128 MB of RAM (512 minimum for Vista)
50 MB of disk space for basic software and database
Audio instructions require 240 MB of disk space and must reside on the hard drive to be accessible.
Video Clips are supplied on 7 CDs, each containing about 650 MB (4.5 gigabytes total). They can either be installed on the hard drive or accessed from the CD.
SVGA (800x600, small fonts)
12X CD-ROM or DVD
Internet access required for software authorization. (Upon request: non-USB floppy drive can be used.) (Vista: authorization is Internet only)
Networks on Windows NT or 200x, and Novell 3 or higher

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