The effects of computer-mediated vocational guidance procedures on the appropriateness of vocational preference |
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Authors: | Guy T Pilato Roger A Myers |
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Institution: | The Pennsylvania State University USA;Teachers College, Columbia University USA |
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Abstract: | To assess the effectiveness of vocational guidance procedures proposed for inclusion in a computer-based vocational exploration system, 139 eleventh-grade male subjects were randomly assigned to three experimental groups and a control group. One group was given a computer-generated accuracy of self-knowledge feedback, another group was taught an occupational classification scheme, a third group experienced both. Utilizing a method of explicit comparison between students' measured characteristics and the measured characteristics of occupational norm groups, the results showed students in the groups receiving feedback increased in the appropriateness of the occupational level of their first occupational choice. In addition, students in the combined treatment group increased in the appropriateness of the level of their total occupational preferences. A delayed posttest indicated that these increases persisted. |
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Keywords: | Request for reprints should be sent to Guy T Pilato The Mental Health Center Ritenour Health Center The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania 16802 |
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