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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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