The Alignment between Career Interests and STEM Careers of Secondary School Students ...

: Satisfaction in choosing a career is important and could be achieved when a person chooses his career in line with the personality and environment. This would usually create a strong job orientation. This study aims to identify the STEM career interest tendency of form two students and measure the relationship between career interests and STEM careers. This study used a survey design. A total of 53 form two students were involved as study respondents consisted of 14 males and 39 females. The instrument used was Career Exploration, adapted from the Self-Directed Search (SDS) test. Data were a... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Tee Yin Ai
Mohd Izwan Bin Mahmud
Dokumenttyp: Scholarlyarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: : Career Interests / Personalities / STEM Careers / Holland
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29071685
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7727243

: Satisfaction in choosing a career is important and could be achieved when a person chooses his career in line with the personality and environment. This would usually create a strong job orientation. This study aims to identify the STEM career interest tendency of form two students and measure the relationship between career interests and STEM careers. This study used a survey design. A total of 53 form two students were involved as study respondents consisted of 14 males and 39 females. The instrument used was Career Exploration, adapted from the Self-Directed Search (SDS) test. Data were analysed descriptively and inferentially using SPSS Windows version 23.0. The findings of the study showed that Holland’s three-point codes (Holland, 1989) for STEM careers were Social, Investigative, and Realistic (S-I-R). Most STEM interests fit the People-Things dimension. However, Chi-squared test showed significant misalignment between STEM careers and career interests (X2 (5) = 10.87, p>.05). Researchers ... :