Changes in Students’ Urakami’s Career Decision-making Self-efficacy Scale Effectiveness of the First Year Career Education Subject of the Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

This study focuses on the lessons for the freshman career education subject “Career Design”. This subject is characterized by the use of various techniques that promote active learning. Specifically, during each lesson, the students partake in “individual work,” “group discussions,” “individual presentations,” and “group presentations,” and they “submit 200-character reports”. In addition, students have the opportunity to do “Fermi estimates”. And they have time for “sharing experiences with current students and OBOG (alumni) ”. These activities are incorporated into lessons to stimulate the interest of freshman students in the Faculty of Engineering. A high level of satisfaction and comprehension from students were confirmed through the use of such a lesson structure. Moreover, these lessons are also highly valued as a way of improving the students’ Urakami’ s career decision-making self-efficacy.