Post-Secondary Students' Perceptions of Career Readiness Skills

Autor/inn/en	DiBenedetto, Catherine A.; Willis, Victoria C.
Titel	Post-Secondary Students' Perceptions of Career Readiness Skills
Quelle	In: Journal of Agricultural Education, 61 (2020) 1, S.44-59 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-0541
Schlagwörter	College Students; Student Attitudes; Career Readiness; Interdisciplinary Approach; Agricultural Education; Daily Living Skills; Skill Development; Attitude Change; Scores; Incidental Learning; Learning Experience; Personality Traits; Interpersonal Competence; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Alltagsfertigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Inzidentelles Lernen; Lernerfahrung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	Awareness of one's knowledge, skills, and dispositions are important for college graduates to excel in the workforce. The purpose of this study was to administer a needs assessment to students enrolled in the Agricultural Sciences department at Clemson University to determine areas of discrepancy based on perceived levels of proficiency and importance of knowledge, skills, and dispositions for career readiness. The Borich needs assessment model was used to discern between student's perceived competency and importance of career readiness skills within nine constructs. Constructs were analyzed and ranked using mean and grand mean weighted discrepancy scores. We found career skills, interdisciplinary skills, life skills, and learning skills ranked as the highest areas of need. Some differences were revealed among the three majors in the department, but career skills were consistently ranked as students' highest priority need. The majority of the students believed they were most responsible for developing skills to prepare themselves to be career ready. Recommendations included expanded data collection among employers, faculty, secondary education teachers and students, and post-secondary students enrolled at technical colleges and conducting a pre/post survey of students as they enter their first semester and complete their final semester to determine any change in student perception over time. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Association for Agricultural Education. P.O. Box 7607, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Raleigh, NC 27695. Web site: http://www.aaaeonline.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01