BRINGING FUTURE IN CLASS: INTEGRATING CAREER PLANNING ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

Abstract

Career planning is a process to explore and plan a career according to aspirations of an individual. It is mutual responsibility of teachers, students and educational organizations. However, it has been ignored in local context. This study aimed to develop activities for career planning that can be used in class and to examine effectiveness of all these activities. For this purpose one group posttest only experimental research design was used. All the students, twenty two in number, enrolled in Bachelors of Science education (one year) program were formed the sample of the study. Three instruments were used for whole study and were developed by researcher herself following literature review. Carrier planning activity pack was used to go through the process of carrier planning. Second instrument was a self -developed likert scale questionnaire aiming towards evaluation of effectiveness of career planning activity, while the third instrument was embedded in second instrument, this included three questions regarding efficiency of the activity. Validity of these three instruments was assured by taking expert opinion while reliability of close-ended part was measured through pilot testing. Value of Cronbach alpha was 0.83. At the end of all these activities a self-developed questionnaire was used to measure effectiveness of this career planning activity as a whole. Simple descriptive statistics was used to analyze data. The results indicate that student were satisfied with their career planning activity. On the basis of these results it can be suggested that such activities should be carried out in class in order to help students to plan career from initial stages.