Efficacy of school-based career guidance interventions: A review of recent research

Sharapova N. Zholdasbekova S. Arzymbetova S. Zaimoglu O. Bozshatayeva G.
2023 Asian Online Journal Publishing Group

Journal of Education and e-Learning Research
2023 #10 Issue 2 215 - 222 pp.

This paper aims to examine the impacts of career guidance interventions on school students’ career-related skills, knowledge and beliefs by combining relevant empirical studies conducted in the last 10 years. A random-effects meta-analytic technique was employed for this purpose. After screening, electronic databases using pre-defined eligibility criteria, nine studies involving a total of 1,433 participants were included in the final meta-analysis. The analysis yielded a weighted mean effect size of 0.42 (95% confidence interval = 0.19, 0.65; z = 3.61, p < 0.01) which may be construed as a moderate-to-high effect size with a significant difference between the treatment and control conditions at post-treatment. As a result, post-test career-related outcomes in students who received career guidance were significantly higher than in non-guidance groups. The results suggest that career interventions may provide some modest developmental progression in school-age children and adolescents particularly through improving learners’ career decidedness and attitudes such as future time perspective. These findings might have strategic implications for policy and practice. This paper extends past research on career guidance effectiveness by identifying the combined effect size of relevant career interventions.

Career , Decision-making , Education , Meta-analysis , School , Self-efficacy

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Department of Pedagogy, South Kazakhstan State Pedagogical University, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Department of Vocational Training, M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Faculty of Fine Arts, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Department of Biology and Geography, M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University, Shymkent, Kazakhstan

Department of Pedagogy
Department of Vocational Training
Faculty of Fine Arts
Department of Biology and Geography

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