Influence of Career Exploration Process Behaviors on Agriculture Students’ Level of Career Certainty

Esters, Levon T.

doi:10.5032/jae.2008.03023

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“…Positive beliefs lead to career interests and outcomes during the decision process. Esters (2008) posited that individuals engaged in activities during career exploration help them gather relevant information that influenced their career choices. Bandura (2002) also theorized that observational learning, that is, seeing peers complete a task, would lead to a stronger level of self-efficacy than would seeing others, such as professionals, complete the task.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concerning career development, self-efficacy has been applied successfully to vocational choice, career decision making, and career indecision (Hackett, 1995). Esters (2008) suggested that due to the declining number of students enrolled in agricultural-related programs, career exploration could be addressed through career development courses and career development activities. As such, students could make thoughtful career choices through career exploration activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students’ Self–efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career

Fraze¹,

Wingenbach²,

Rutherford³

et al. 2011

JAE

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The purpose of this study was to determine if selected high school students' participation in a summer agricultural communications workshop affected their self-efficacy and attitudes toward agriculture as a subject, college major, and/or as a career. Data were gathered from an accessible population (N = 145), from which a purposive sample (n = 94) was derived. Data were collected with researcher-developed questionnaires, adapted from Mitchell's (1993) study of Ohio State University minority students' knowledge, perceptions, and career aspirations related to agriculture. Results indicated that urban students' pre-workshop attitudes were positive toward agriculture as a subject, college major, and as a career, and were significantly more positive after participation in the summer agricultural communications workshops. Students may be more likely to study agriculture, pursue college majors in agriculture, and choose agricultural careers if they favorably viewed teachers' workshop participation and/or their friends successfully completing workshop tasks. Additional research should be conducted on the importance of teacher influence on a student's self-efficacy in agricultural science subjects.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students’ Self–efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career

Fraze¹,

Wingenbach²,

Rutherford³

et al. 2011

JAE

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“…Career exploration refers to all of the activities that individuals engage in to understand their strength, values, interest and gather information about existing career (Esters, 2008). The purpose is to collect and analyse career related information in order to enhance an individual's career management process.…”

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Influence of Career Self-Efficacy on Career Exploration among Senior High School Students in Relation to Gender

Brew¹,

Ngman-Wara²

2018

IJMCR

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The study sought to identify the various ways through which senior high school students in the Effutu Municipality explore existing careers. Also, the study sought to find out gender differences in career exploration level and career selfefficacy levels among students. Survey research design was used for the study. Data for the study were collected from 273 (145 male and 128 female) senior high school students, selected from three mixed schools. Two questionnaires were developed for the study to seek information on career exploration practices, students’ career exploration level, and career self-efficacy level. Descriptive and correlational statistics were used to analyse the data. Respondents’ scores on questionnaire were organized descriptively into frequency counts and percentages. The results of the descriptive analysis showed that the main career exploration practice the students engaged in was field trip. Results of correlational statistics indicated that female and male students had a higher career exploration level and higher career self-efficacy level respectively. The study concluded that the students were not exposed to other exploration practices to enable them settle on appropriate career choices. It was recommended that school counsellors should consider other practices that involve when designing career exploration programmes to assist students explore existing careers.

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“…There are rare examples of vocational psychology research appearing in the literatures of other disciplinary fields (e.g., agricultural education; Esters, 2007Esters, , 2008.…”

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“…Furthermore, students at an agricultural college experience levels of career decidedness and exploration behaviours that indicate a need for integrated career development learning in the curriculum (Esters, 2007(Esters, , 2008Esters & McCulloh, 2008). Vocational psychology has empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical bases on which to build curriculum-integrated career development learning (McIlveen et al, 2011;Reardon, Lenz, Sampson, & Peterson, 2009;Watts, 2006) and enhance students' employability (Fugate, Kinicki, & Ashforth, 2004).…”

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A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

McIlveen

2015

Australian Journal of Career Development

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The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is advanced in this article. It is argued that vocational psychology can and should provide a substantive contribution to agriculture by solving problems associated with labour supply and the quality of work, particularly the problems of poverty and hunger that blight the world. Despite its scientific and professional capability, the immediate problem is that vocational psychology lacks an epistemology and knowledge base on which to advance its contribution to agriculture. The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is motivated by the ethical vision of the psychology of working perspective. The Systems Theory Framework of Career is used as a prism to render a research agenda for the Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre. The Systems Theory Framework enables the integration of conceptually different vocational psychology theories. When coherently organised by the Systems Theory Framework, these theories will furnish novel research questions that may populate the research agenda and, ultimately, foster research and development that enhance agriculture’s capacity to feed and clothe the world.

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Influence of Career Exploration Process Behaviors on Agriculture Students’ Level of Career Certainty

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students’ Self–efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career

Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students’ Self–efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career

Influence of Career Self-Efficacy on Career Exploration among Senior High School Students in Relation to Gender

A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

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