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Direct linkMorgan, Brandon; Teye-Kwadjo, Enoch; Asumeng, Maxwell; Rabie, Stephan; Naidoo, Anthony V.; de Bruin, Gideon P. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
This study set out to investigate the psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory (ACII) in Ghana. The ACII is an interest measure developed in South Africa that operationalises Holland's model of vocational personality/interest types. We obtained 617 responses to the ACII from university students at a university in Ghana.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Careers, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Mintram, Kersha; Morgan, Brandon; de Bruin, Gideon P. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2020
We investigated (a) the fit and structural equivalence of Holland's model of six vocational personality types in a sample of South African men (n = 139) and women (n = 268) using the South African Career Interest Inventory, and (b) mean score differences for men and women on these types. The results supported the fit and structural similarity of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Models, Vocational Interests
Download full textGraduate Management Admission Council, 2021
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Recruitment, Occupational Aspiration, Vocational Interests
Maree, Jacobus Gideon; Che, Jude – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This article reports on the effect of life-design counselling on a purposefully selected learner from an environment challenged by disadvantages. An instrumental, single-case study approach was followed and collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data proceeded simultaneously. Intervention comprised assessment and dialogues and…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Disadvantaged Environment, Career Counseling
Maree, Jacobus Gideon – South African Journal of Education, 2020
In this article I report on how conscious knowledge could be connected with subconscious advice through career construction counselling to resolve the career choice indecision of a postgraduate psychology student. The participant was purposively selected from a number of people attending a course in narrative career counselling. An explanatory,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Decision Making, Graduate Students
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
Stoltz, Kevin B., Ed.; Barclay, Susan R., Ed. – National Career Development Association, 2019
National Career Development Association (NCDA) is excited to release the re-imagined 7th edition of their influential guide to career assessment. Re-conceptualized and renamed to "A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment," the "Guide" contains important information career counselors, educators, and practitioners will find…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Evaluation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Wolhuter, Charl; van der Walt, Hannes; Potgieter, Ferdinand; Meyer, Louisa; Mamiala, Thapelo – South African Journal of Education, 2012
The need for an inspired professional teacher corps to haul South African school education out of its current low level of quality was the driving force behind this project. Its aim was to determine what counted as sources of inspiration for student teachers and hence for future teachers. Based on a conceptual-theoretical study, a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
Steyn, M. G.; Harris, Teresa; Hartell, C. G. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
Black students account for over 72% of enrollments in higher education, but only a small percentage of them choose Early Childhood Education (ECE) as a field of study and complete the qualification. The purpose of this study was to examine, from the perspective of black ECE students, why so few of them enroll in this particular programme at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Early Childhood Education, Blacks
Davey, Todd; Plewa, Carolin; Struwig, Miemie – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to identify the differences between African and European students with regard to their entrepreneurial intentions, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, role models and entrepreneurial experience. It also aims to set the scene for future comparative research between developing and developed countries in the area of graduate…
Descriptors: Role Models, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Entrepreneurship
Watson, Mark B.; Foxcroft, Cheryl D.; Allen, Lynda J. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2007
Holland believes that specific personality types seek out matching occupational environments and his theory codes personality and environment according to a six letter interest typology. Since 1985 there have been numerous American studies that have queried the validity of Holland's coding system. Research in South Africa is scarcer, despite…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Career Choice, Coding
Peer revieweddu Toit, Renette; de Bruin, Gideon P. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
The validity of Holland's personality types model was tested with 932 young black men and women from Northwestern Province and 386 form Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. A randomization test of hypothesized order relations and multidimensional scaling analyses showed that data from all groups fit the circular order model poorly. (Contains 48…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Females, Foreign Countries
van Rooyen, J. – 1981
A study that examined the personality and environmental factors affecting South African female career interest and career commitment at different life phases resulted in development of a model of vocational behavior. Selected for the study sample were 111 graduated white women employed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adult Development, Adults, Age
