Promoting Career and College Readiness, Aspirations, and Self‐Efficacy: Curriculum Field Test.

Autor/inn/en	Martinez, Robert R; Baker, Stanley B; Young, Tamara
Titel	Promoting Career and College Readiness, Aspirations, and Self‐Efficacy: Curriculum Field Test.
Quelle	In: The Career development quarterly, (2017) 2, S.173-188 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-7764
DOI	10.1002/cdq.12090
Schlagwörter	Classroom guidance; Evidence‐based practice; Quasi‐experiment; Career and college readiness; Between‐groups research; High school students; Curricula; Education; Analysis; Evidence-based medicine; Vocational guidance; Learning; Academic readiness; Secondary schools; Secondary school students; Higher education; Careers; Entrance examinations; Intervention; Classrooms; Studies; Knowledge
Abstract	To address the need for enhanced career and college readiness, a classroom guidance curriculum was studied using a pretest–posttest nonequivalent groups quasi‐experimental design. Data from 163 ninth‐grade students enrolled in a low‐performing high school were analyzed via hierarchical linear modeling. The analyses indicated a treatment effect on postsecondary education‐going knowledge and career and college readiness self‐efficacy, accounting for 100% of the variance explained by classroom‐level factors and indicating potential for the classroom guidance curriculum. The findings encourage career and professional school counselors to proactively employ similar classroom guidance programs aimed at encouraging high school students to consider postsecondary education opportunities. Future research could focus on component analyses of the curriculum, broadening the target populations, using mixed‐method designs, and additional validity studies of the dependent measures.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2022/1/02