The effect of a career education programme on the career attitude maturity of grade nine students
Year: 1978
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Tlie presenË investigation consisted of Ë¡,¡o separat.e,although noË díscrete, sËudies of career developnenË.ïn the firsÈ study, critest Attit.udeScale of the Career Lfaturitl, Inventory (CMI) r,¡as adrnínísËered to 76 gracle níne student.s(38 rial-es, 38 fernaLes) before, during, and after a five-monËh career education progïan'cne, ín order to assess the effect of the prograÍule on the sËudenËsr career att,itude maturity.Since research findings regarding sex differences ín career aaËurity aïe con- flicting (srníth and Llerr, L972; crites, Lg73; Forrest and Thornpson, 1974), a comparison r'ras rade between male and fenale scores on the Attítude Sca1e.A1so, ín vier,r of data suggesting a positíve relatíonshíp betrveen aptítude and career naturity (llílliams, 1967; Forrest, LTTL; crites, 1973), Dif ferential ApËítude TesË (D.A.T.) scoïes r/¡ere corïelated v¡íth st,ud.entscores on CriËesr AËËitude Scal-e.In the seconcl study, one essenË1a1 espect of the overall career educatíon programme, the Irlork Exposure Project, v¡as evaluated by questionnaires a<íministered to sLudents and parËicipatÍng enployers.The results of Ëbe first study revealed a signifÍcant increase in career attítude maturíty for the uale experfmental subjecÈs over Ëhe five-rnonth duration of the career educatíon progranne.Hov¡ever, no síg- nifícant differences in career attítude maturity were found between the e>perínentai-anC controlgroups fo11-owing Ehe sarne five-month perÍod.Sígnificant correlatíons were found betr,'een careeï attj-Èude maËurity scores and VR * NA conçosite scores on the Differentíal-Aptitude Test.s.The second studlr, í.e., the Ï{ork Exposure project, \¡ras judged successful in terms of meetín.g the majority of a prÍori objectives for the projecË.
Source: Mspace (University of Manitoba)
Author: Anne B. Arnett
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2790830782