Relationships Between World Skills Standards Specification (WSSS) And Career Maturity Among Final Year Mechatronics Engineering Students

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between world skills standards specification (WSSS) and career maturity among final year mechatronics engineering students. This study was conducted in one university in Malaysia. A convenient sample of 80 final year students majoring in Mechatronics Engineering was selected from one public university. Work management and organization skill, interpersonal and communication skill, information and documentation skill, software programming and schematic circuit skill were the elements used as variables of world skills standard specification. Career Maturity Inventory adapted from (The Career Maturity Inventory – Revised; Crites & Savickas, 1996) serving as the dependent measure and a set of questionnaire was used as instrument in quantitative research to collect the data. The result showed that there is negative relationship between career maturity and interpersonal and communications skill. However, there were not statistically significant between career maturity and work management and organization skill, information and documentation skill and software programming and schematic circuit skill. Only limited correlation was found therefore it was concluded that there is no relationship between world skills standard specification and career maturity. This paper offers knowledge extension and recommendations for practice and research.