CAREER ASPIRATION OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATIONSTUDENTS: THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTIVATION, SENSE-OF-SELF AND INTEREST
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This study explored the relationship between three independent variables (interest, motivation, and sense of self) and career aspiration of Vocational and Technical Education Students. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Correlational survey design was adopted for the study. Students from all the eight technical colleges in Ogun State constituted the population for the study. A total of 100 technical college students, selected through simple random sampling, eventually participated in the study. Sense of self scale, Jackson Vocational interest inventory, Motivation for occupational preference scale, and Career Aspiration Scale - Revisedwere used for data collection. Cronbach Alpha was used to estimate the reliability of the instruments, the four instruments yielded reliability coefficients of 0.73, 0.81, 0.83 and 0.79 respectively. The questionnaires were collected immediately after administration. Mean, standard deviation, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to analyse the data. The study showed that there is a significant relationship between sense of self and career aspiration of vocational and technical education students. There is a significant relationship between motivation and career aspiration of Vocational and technical education students. Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between interest and career aspiration of Vocational and technical education students. Based on these findings, it was recommended that measures should be taken to improve sense of self of students in vocational and technical colleges to enable them understand their strengths, weaknesses, values, and beliefs. Also, efforts should be made towards increasing students motivation to excel in their vocational and technical education program and set high career aspirations. Furthermore, vocational counselling and guidance services should be provided and strengthened in all schools to ascertain students vocational interest and also improve their sense of self.
Keywords. Career aspiration, vocational and technical education, motivation, sense-of-self, interest.
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