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Improving Student's Understanding of Career Decision-Making through Service Learning
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Coulter-Kern, Russell G.; Coulter-Kern, Paige E.; Schenkel, Aubree A.; Walker, Danielle R.; Fogle, Kelly L. – College Student Journal, 2013
This study examines the impact of an experiential service-learning project designed to help high school students begin to choose a career path and increase college students' understanding about how to make career decisions. In the study, two groups of college students attended information sessions on career advising. The first group then helped…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, High School Students, Decision Making
Congruency between a Traditional and an Online Career Instrument
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Miller, Mark J.; Cowger, Ernest, Jr.; Tobacyk, Jerome; Livingston, Mary Margaret – College Student Journal, 2007
This comparative study examined the degree of similarity between the results of the Self-Directed Search and an online career assessment. Implications for career counselors, based on the results, are briefly discussed.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counselors, Career Counseling, Measurement Techniques
Congruency between Occupational Daydreams and Self Directed Search (SDS) Scores among College Students
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Miller, Mark J.; Springer, Thomas P.; Tobacyk, Jerome; Wells, Don – College Student Journal, 2004
In this study, the relationship of expressed occupational daydreams and scores on the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were examined. Results were consistent with Holland's theory of careers. Implications for career counselors are discussed. Students were asked to provide specific biographical data (i. e., age, gender, race) and to write down their…
Descriptors: Counselors, Career Planning, Career Counseling, Career Choice