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Xifeng Liao – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
Taking three typical interdisciplinary programs integrated with modern technologies in a vocational college as examples, this research was designed to identify the indicators of student career maturity and to explore the indirect effect of career learning planning on the relationship between career maturity and confidence in self-directed career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Reddan, Gregory – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Field Project A is an elective course in the Bachelor of Exercise Science program at Griffith University and includes elements of both career development learning and work-integrated learning. This paper aims to determine the effects of the learning activities and assessment items developed for the course on students' self-efficacy in making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Self Efficacy, Decision Making
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
Using previously unanalysed data from a lost study--the "Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations" and "Adult Roles" (1962-1964)--and data from a subsequent restudy, this paper contributes to debates on vocational education by examining three themes. First, the methodological issues raised by undertaking a restudy are discussed. Second, the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Adjustment, Industrial Psychology
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Schmidt, Wesley I.; Dykeman, Bruce F. – Education, 1979
Using a randomized two group pre-test/post-test research design, the study found that (1) significant results occurred on those variables measuring levels of vocational maturity, days of school attendance, and numbers of disciplinary referrals and (2) non-significant results occurred on those variables measuring proportions of students dropping…
Descriptors: Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Potential Dropouts, Program Effectiveness
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Stone, James R., III; And Others – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1990
A survey of high school students in school-supervised work experience programs (N=101) and non-school-supervised jobs (N=177) found that the former have higher quality jobs that make greater use of academic skills, have more contact with adults, experience more challenge, consider their work meaningful, and perceive a closer relationship between…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, High School Students, High Schools
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Dykeman, Bruce F. – Education, 1983
Explains the methodology used to correlate the scores of dropout-prone students on a measurement of vocational maturity with their scores and work-effectiveness rating scale. Notes that vocational maturity, decision making abilities, and career information are significantly related to work effectiveness. (SB)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Decision Making, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
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Bridgeford, Nancy J.; Owens, Thomas R. – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Developed and implemented through four regional educational laboratories, Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) provides secondary students with an alternative education program combining academic learning, community resource career experiences, and life skill development. Program evaluation of data from sixteen pilot sites indicates that EBCE…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Attitudes, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning