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Title: | Factors Detecting Students’ Career Choice in the Ethiopian Higher Education Environment |
Authors: | Teklu, Asaye |
Keywords: | Field of study, Holland’s Theory of careers, Personality scale, Person- environment fit |
Issue Date: | Aug-2012 |
Publisher: | ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY |
Abstract: | Researches indicate that college students who choose field of studies
compatible with their personality type will be rewarded with a better
academic achievement. The Congruence between person and environment
introduced by Holland’s Theory of career positively influences College
academic success. This relationship is indeed found to be crucial to a
scholastic achievement in higher institutions. This study could thus be
considered as a pursuit of knowledge regarding the extent to which
Holland’s Theory of Career choice is applicable to the contemporary
freshman field of study choice paradigm reflected in the Ethiopian Higher
Education Environment. Questionnaire has been dispatched to Four
Higher Education institution students in Addis Ababa in which fourteen
departments are included as a sample. Descriptive statistics is used for
techniques of data analysis. An interesting pattern that matches with
Holland’s theory comes out of the findings although in other instances
distinct factors have also been found to play a significant role in
determining career choice. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2200 |
Appears in Collections: | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa
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