Abstract
Introduction. Career choice is an essential stage for vocational students to identify suitability, readiness, and development of the capacity to work. However, until now, studies that discuss how vocational learning can shape students’ career choices are still limited and not yet widely discussed. This study aims to develop structural models to shape the maturity of student career choices, which involves teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation in collaboratively and interactively. Specifically, this study aims to investigate the effects of teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on career choice. Also, it will help to examine the role of mediation for the student’s goal orientation under the influence of teaching quality. Materials and Methods. Data were collected randomly through an online questionnaire survey from 289 vocational students in the tourism field in Indonesia which included the culinary art and hospitality department. SEM analysis is used to test the path model and bootstrapping confidence interval estimate to test the mediation role. Results. This study revealed that teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation are collaborative and interactive predictors of career choice of vocational students. Also, the learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation significantly mediate the effect of teaching quality on student career choices, and this mediation is partial. Discussion and Conclusion.This study also reinforces the theory that the success of achieving the learning outcome is significantly affected by external (e.g., teaching quality) and internal dimension (e.g., student goal orientation). Finally, it is recommended that vocational education practitioners should improve the quality of learning and teaching process by encouraging positiv e student goal orientation.
Highlights
Vocational education plays an essential role in preparing the skilled and superior workforce
We analyse the items for each variable using the Pearson correlation analysis, the results show that all items are valid (.511** ~ .8.25**)
We use the Cronbach alpha test to test instrument reliability, and the results reveal that all instruments to measure each construct are reliable (.712 ~ .944). These results indicate that the tool is considered suitable for measuring student perceptions of teaching quality, learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation, and career choice11
Summary
Vocational education plays an essential role in preparing the skilled and superior workforce. In many studies in the field of vocational psychology, maturity in student career choices is a critical stage to shape students’ work readiness. The purpose of learning in vocational schools is to shape students’ work skills and, and more importantly, it is that students mature in their career choices. Numerous studies were conducted to explore factors influencing career choices [1,2,3,4]. These factors are on the agenda of future research to identify fundamental mechanisms that explain the effects of career exploration and contingencies of each of these effects [5]. Until now, studies that discuss how vocational learning can shape students’ career choices are still limited
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