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Old Dominion University

Secondary Education

1992

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A Comparison Of Self-Efficacy And Informational Career Counseling With Undecided High School Seniors, Beth Beddingfield Bangley Jan 1992

A Comparison Of Self-Efficacy And Informational Career Counseling With Undecided High School Seniors, Beth Beddingfield Bangley

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two career counseling interventions upon the career decision-making self-efficacy of two groups of undecided high school seniors. The setting of the study was a large public high school in a metropolitan area in the Southeastern region of the United States. In order to identify students' initial levels of confidence and certainty for making career and educational plans, a brief self-report survey was administered to seniors. Seniors appearing to possess low levels of confidence and certainty were given the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES) as a diagnostic screening measure. Forty-eight …