Background: The current study aimed to investigate the associations between cognitive abilities, grit, and academic achievement in high school STEM studies. The study utilized a natural sample of excelling STEM students (N = 814) who underwent a selection process to join elite undergraduate STEM programs. Through this selection process, the…

The development of each student's awareness serves as the governing principle for high school vocational education programs. This awareness then becomes the driving force behind the progression of the educational process. Career education activities for students are the relationships between the objectives, contents, methods and forms of…

Several researchers have highlighted the need to strengthen school-based career education in Hungary. After reviewing the international literature on similar programs, this study reports on the impact of an innovative, multi-method career education course. It aimed to support Hungarian high school (ISCED 344) students in grades 10-11 in making…

This article aims to investigate the contribution of career counseling and guidance based on Nusantara culture in the implementation of the independent curriculum. The scope of this writing is focused on the strategies and implementation of career counseling and guidance in high schools. The research method used a narrative review of career…

This study aims to describe the needs of students and school counselors for career planning guidance services in senior high school. This study subject is 213 students grade X (ten) at SMAN 1 Dukun Gresik (senior high school) as respondents and 16 school counselors from 12 senior high schools throughout Gresik Regency, East Java, Indonesia. The…

Academic advising is inhibited at most of the high schools to help students identify appropriate academic pathways. The choice of a career domain is significantly influenced by the complexity of life and the volatility of the labor market. Thus, high school students feel confused during the shift period from high school to university, especially…

One way to address the shortages of nurses might be if more high school students have active support from their school counsellors. The aim of this research was to explore the perceptions of school counsellors in Bahrain about nursing and describe current nursing-related career guidance practices. A mixed-method study involving 10 high school…

Introduction: The assessment of person-environment congruence is important in vocational and career guidance. The aims of this study were to obtain descriptive statistics for the congruence between realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC) vocational interests and occupational aspirations, and to relate…

Adolescence is a crucial period for the formation of work values, which are strongly linked to young people's educational and occupational choices. However, longitudinal studies that systematically explore interlinkages between adolescent work values and attainment in other relevant domains of adult life are scarce. This study addresses this gap…

Schools are responsible for helping students in their vocational career development in the sense that they should sustain students in developing skills required by the job market. Pre-tertiary school guidance is an indispensable aspect, since poor scholar guidance is always associated with failure at school. In the context of career paths, we…

Access to quality career advice is important for economic, personal and equity reasons, yet, in many countries around the world, career-education provision is of varying quality and quantity within school settings. Given the inconsistencies in career-education resourcing and provision, what is not clearly understood is how students from low…

High school counselors struggle to complete the tasks assigned to them. Often serving more than 500 students, counselors must address requirements specified by the American School Counselor Association's national model. They must also perform duties required by state and local policy, as well as campus-designated priorities. Empirical studies of…

Media is an important socialization actor through which adolescents can learn about careers. Nine focus group interviews were conducted with 44 late adolescents (M[subscript age] = 16.27; SD[subscript age]= 0.54; 56.82% female) in high schools in Belgium to explore how youth in this age group receive career-related messages, the work tasks,…

This paper aims to examine the impacts of career guidance interventions on school students' career-related skills, knowledge and beliefs by combining relevant empirical studies conducted in the last 10 years. A random-effects meta-analytic technique was employed for this purpose. After screening, electronic databases using pre-defined eligibility…

Italian high school students carried out some activities within career guidance actions organized by the Department of Chemistry of Sapienza University (Rome) in order to promote enrollments in a chemistry Bachelor's course, thus remedying the shortage of professional chemists. Novel didactic sequences have been designed to facilitate the…