The increase of self-knowledge and decision-taking in students of compulsory secondary education in Cuenca

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  • Amparo Martínez Cano Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.18.num.1.2007.11294

Keywords:

self-knowledge, career development, decision-making

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research stems from the need of skilled workers successfully integrated in the labour market in today’s society. The key to meet to this demand consists on instructing workers in the professional performances through continuous career guidance. This instruction should specially be conducted in young students between 12 and 18 years old. This stage corresponds to secondary school, when a large number of young people go into the labour market.The theoretic al foundation, considers the latest principles of career guidance as well as the notions of self-knowledge and decision-making, Professor Repetto´s program “TFP”, “Tu Futuro Profesional”.In the research methodology, the TFP program is tested on students of compulsory secondary education from public schools in Cuenca, throughout three academic years (1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002), with the help of SPSS programme and Student “T”. The students who followed “TFP” proved to have better self-knowledge and decision-making skills. The advantage was significant in both.

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Martínez Cano, A. (2014). The increase of self-knowledge and decision-taking in students of compulsory secondary education in Cuenca. REOP - Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía, 18(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.18.num.1.2007.11294

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Research studies

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