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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! |
Download Magellan brochure here (PDF format).
- 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)
- 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
- 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 students 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
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Through serious exploration not just one of those simple interest surveys. Your students deserve the best in career assessment. Give them Magellan!
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.
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:
Like Ferdinand Magellan, Valpar's Magellan is ready to go:
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.
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| Our Quickstart Manuals are now available online in PDF format. version 4, version 5, version 6 |
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)
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