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50 Years of ERIC
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Talib, Jasmi A.; Salleh, Amla; Amat, Salleh; Ghavifekr, Simin; Ariff, Azlinda M. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2015
Using a pre-post and control group design, we examined the effect of a career education module on career development among a group of 122 community college students in Malaysia. The effect of gender and the interaction effect of gender and career education module on career development were also investigated. MANOVA analyses showed significant…
Descriptors: Career Education, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Gender Differences
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Gamboa, Vitor; Paixão, Maria Paula; de Jesus, Saúl Neves – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2014
The provision of workplace-based experiences (internships) is an important component of the training program for students attending vocational education courses. The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between internship quality and students vocational development, considering students' vocational profiles, in a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Internship Programs, Profiles
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Meijers, Frans; Kuijpers, Marinka; Gundy, Chad – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2013
In this article we focus on the effects of career education and guidance among students (ages 12-19) enrolled in prevocational and secondary vocational education in The Netherlands. Our study included 3,499 students and 166 teachers in 226 classes in 34 schools. The results showed that career competencies positively contributed to learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Effectiveness
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Bassot, Barbara – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2012
In the UK there have been several calls for new models "fit for purpose" for careers work in the twenty-first century and in response, this article presents a model for career learning and development. This brings together recent theory regarding the ways in which people make career decisions throughout their lives in rapidly changing, turbulent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Career Education, Career Choice
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Plant, Peter – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2012
Quality assurance (QA) and Evidence in career guidance are increasingly seen as an indispensable part of explaining and even legitimising career guidance activities and policies. It is no longer sufficient to assume that career guidance or career education has an impact. This has to be demonstrated. This paper provides an overview of how and why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Evidence, Career Education
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Wong, Chi-Sum; Wong, Ping-Man; Peng, Kelly Z. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
In this study, we attempt to investigate the potential effects of parents' career interests on young adults' career interests. Using a sample of 113 freshmen in Hong Kong, results indicated that after controlling for personality, gender, general mental abilities and emotional intelligence, some of the parents' career interests were still related…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability
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Irving, Barrie A. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The author contends that career education has lost its way, and needs to be (re)located within a critical social justice framework if it is to effectively prepare young people to engage with the social, political and economic discourses that inform the shaping of "career(s)". Relating to the New Zealand context, differing versions of social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Career Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy