Impact of vocational guidance on career choice and employability of vocational and technical education students in a public university in Anambra State
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https://doi.org/10.53797/ajvah.v5i1.3.2024%20Keywords:
Vocational, Guidance, Career, Choice, Employability, Technical, StudentsAbstract
This study investigated the impact of vocational guidance on career choice and employability of vocational and technical education students in academic institutions in Anambra State. Two hypotheses were tested. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The study was carried out in Anambra State. Two hundred and twenty-seven (227) students of technical and vocational education in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka in Anambra State, Nigeria participated in the study. The instrument used for data collection was a thirty items questionnaire. Specifically, there were ten items on employability skills adapted from Rothwell and Arnold (2007), ten items on career choice adapted from Osipow and Winer (1996) and ten items on vocational guidance adapted from Lawrence (1993). The validity and psychometric properties of the scales were already established by the developers; hence no further evaluation was carried out on the scale. Simple linear regression was used to analyze the data at 0.05 level of significance. It was found, among others, that vocational guidance does not predict career choice of technical and education students which is contrary to popular findings of similar studies.
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