Apa itu career
orientation? Merupakan corak yang berkaitan dengan kerja tetap cukup
stabil dari kehidupan kerja seseorang. Ia telah memandu seseorang untuk
mengarah diri dengan mengorbankan masa, career-wise sepanjang hidupnya.
Instrument. Senarai
Semak Pekerjaan (OCL; Brooks, Holahan, & Galligan, 1985). Telah terbahagi
kepada 3 iaitu Tradisional berbanding pekerjaan yang bukan tradisional untuk
wanita. Instrumen termasuk senarai 25 pekerjaan yang dianggap tradisional,
bukan tradisional dan neutral (30% -70% daripada pekerja wanita).
Predictors.
Individual variables (i.e.,
academic) & (ability, agentic characteristics, gender role attitudes) found
to be predictive of career orientation (Fassinger, 1990) ; O'Brien and Fassinger,
1993).
Kenapa kita mesti
tahu mengenai career orientation?
• minat pelajar dalam kerjaya tertentu boleh
memberi kesan kepada pendekatan ke arah dalam kelas dan akhirnya menumpukan
pencapaian akademik, tetapi orientasi kerjaya itu boleh sama ada berfungsi atau
tidak (functional or
dysfunctional).
• Ia boleh berfungsi (functional) jika pelajar menganggap memberi perhatian di dalam kelas sebagai
jalan untuk memudahkannya mencapai kerjayanya dipilih
• Ia boleh dysfunctional jika pelajar itu tidak dapat melihat apa-apa
sumbangan sebenar dalam kegiatan akademiknya
• It can also hinder the student's
socialization into the role.
• In Becker’s medical school
research (1961), many freshmen tried to "learn everything" so as to
become the most knowledgeable doctors. This perspective blinded them to the
expectations and evaluation procedures of their role complements, the medical
school instructors.
• These instructors had their own
ideas about what subject matter was most important both for learning and
testing purposes.
• Research
by Reitz (1979) showed that freshmen
high in their orientation toward a teaching career underachieved in class
performance.
• Upperclassmen highly oriented toward
a teaching career overachieved relative to their less career-oriented
classmates.
Possible Explanation
• Might be the student's perception of
the relevance of the course content to success in his chosen career.
• Might be the degree to which the
student has already been socialized into the educational
Institution.
• That is, to the extent that
career orientation interferes with the
student's socialization into the academic culture, it can be detrimental to his academic performance.