Career Development Inventory Research Articles

Embracing Freedom in Learning: The Impact of Kurikulum Merdeka on Engineering Students of Universitas Negeri Medan

In 2020, Indonesia's Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology introduced the Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) curriculum for higher education to better prepare students for the modern job market. This study contrasts the MBKM curriculum with the non-MBKM curriculum, focusing on their impacts on students' career exploration and professional maturity. Using a quantitative, correlational approach, the study sampled 187 engineering students from a Medan university. Instruments included the Career Exploration Survey (CES) and the Career Development Inventory (CDI). Results showed that both curricula positively influence career exploration and professional maturity, with no significant differences between the two. The MBKM curriculum's emphasis on real-world experience and career preparation was highlighted as a key factor in fostering career readiness. The study concludes that both curricula effectively support career development, but the MBKM curriculum offers a more practical, hands-on approach to preparing students for the workforce.

Teaching Sustainable Employability: Examining the Factor Structure of the Perception of Career Development Inventory for Chinese College Students

The universalization of higher education and the uncertainty of the labor market in China has rendered the career development of college students increasingly important. However, previous constructs of career development and their measurements were mainly developed for psychological interventions based on Western culture, rather than educational practices in China. To investigate the career development of Chinese college students, this study examined a four-factor model of the Perception of Career Development Inventory for Chinese College Students. The four factors are self-seeking, competence enhancements, context exploration, and role matching. The present study confirmed the four-factor structure and provided evidence of satisfactory psychometric properties using a sample of Chinese college students (N = 739). Further validation and the investigation of educational effects need to be extended.

Aplikasi Kurikulum Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) pada Perguruan Tinggi Terhadap Karier Mahasiswa

This study aims to analyze the role of career exploration on students' career maturity with different MBKM and non-MBKM curricula. This study used a quantitative approach with correlational research methods. The Career Exploration Scale (CES) and the Career Development Inventory (CDI) were used as measurement instruments in this study (CDI). The population of this research was active students with the non-MBKM curriculum (n=144) and active students with the MBKM curriculum (n=147). Both populations were from a university in Bandung's Faculty of Psychology. Data was collected from students with a non-MBKM curriculum (n=108) and students with the MBKM curriculum (n=111) of the Faculty of Psychology from a university in Bandung, with a probability sampling technique, namely simple random sampling. The data analysis techniques used in this research were regression and covariance analysis. The results showed a role for career exploration in career maturity in the non-MBKM and the MBKM curricula. The role of career exploration on career maturity differs between the two populations. It indicated that the curriculum significantly influences student careers, whereas the MBKM curriculum was more effective in preparing student careers.

The effect of career guidance on undergraduate medical students' specialty preferences.

To design and implement a career guidance programme for medical students, and to evaluate its effectiveness. The quasi-experimental single-group study was conducted at the College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia, during the 2018-19 academic year. A modified Medical Career Development Inventory covering 5 areas was used to assess how much students' thinking or planning had improved after implementing the designed career guidance programme following Kern's 6 steps for course design. This was done through focussed group discussions. In the second phase, a comprehensive sample comprising 4th and 5th year male and female medical students was enrolled to assess their readiness, planning and choice of specialties, and to compare the same variables post-intervention. Data was analysed using SPSS 22. There were 50 students in the first phase; 30(60%) males and 20(40%) females. In phase II, there were 82 subjects; 47(57.3%) males and 35(42.7%) females. Pre-intervention mean result was 2.60±0.29 which increased post-intervention to 3.16±0.20 (p=0.018), suggesting an improved degree of vocational development. The career guidance programme significantly improved degree of vocational development and readiness to cope with developmental tasks encountered throughout a physician's career.

How online career counseling changes career development: A life design paradigm

Counseling through the internet is one of the provided facilities by modern technologies that paves the way for the career development of students. This study aims to investigate and describe the role and effect of online career counseling interventions on the career development of students. In the current study, 45 university students were randomly assigned into three groups of online counseling (15 students), face-to-face counseling (15 students), and control (15 students). Participants completed short form of career development inventory (Creed and Patton 2004). The collected data in pretest, posttest, follow-up 1, and follow-up 2 were analyzed using SPSS package at descriptive and inferential levels as well as analysis of variance with repetitive measurements. The results showed that both interventions increased the students’ level of career development as compared to that of the students in the control group.

Effectiveness of guidance and counselling strategies at promoting career decision making among youths in Nigeria

The paper investigated the effectiveness of guidance and counselling strategies at promoting career decision making skills among youths in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to find out the effectiveness of group career guidance, group career counselling and group career guidance and counselling put together. The study employed the use of quasi-experimental design of pre-test and post-test of three experimental groups. Two questions were raised to guide the study and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significant. Research instruments were two namely, Career Development Inventory (CDI) and Group Career Guidance and Counselling Strategies (Package used for treatment). Treatment procedure took place in three different school locations where students were pre-tested and post-tested before and after treatment with Group Career Guidance (GCG), Group Career Counselling (GCC) and Group Career Guidance and Counselling (GCG+GCC). The results of the study revealed a general low career maturity and decision making skills before treatment. The study revealed improvement of the maturity and the skills after the treatment. It is thus recommended that the group career guidance should be compulsorily made to be part of secondary school curriculum in Nigeria.

EFFECTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE AND CAREER COUNSELLING TECHNIQUES ON STUDENTS VOCATIONAL MATURITY

This study investigated the effects of career guidance method and career counselling method on student’s vocational maturity. The main purpose of the study is to find out which of the two purposed techni1ques will best facilitate the development of vocational maturity among secondary school adolescents in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised to guide the study and one hypothesis was formulated. The study was a quasi-experimental design of pre-test and post-test two experimental groups. The instrument used was an adopted inventory used by Kuti in 1979. The inventory was named Career Development Inventory (CDI). The validation of the instrument was re-established with reliability co-efficient of 74, 76 and 80 respectively in the sub-scale A, B, C. Treatments were done in two different schools. Career Guidance Technique (CGT) was used in school A, while, Career Counselling Technique (CCT) was used in school B, Career Development Inventory (CDI) was used as measure of vocational maturity at pre-test and post-test. Based on data collected and analysed, the results revealed general improvement in the students’ vocational maturity after treatment. The study also revealed that Career Counselling Technique (CCT) improve vocational maturity better than Career Guidance Technique (CGT). But both (CCT) and (CGT) help in the improvement of vocational maturity of students. Vocational or career guidance and counselling programme should be made compulsory in all secondary schools in Ekiti State. Article visualizations:

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The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of the proposed Outdoor Leader Career Development Model (OLCDM) through the development of the Outdoor Leader Career Development Inventory (OLCDI). I assessed the reliability and validity of the OLCDI through exploratory factor analysis, principal component analysis, and varimax rotation, based on a sample of 594 self-identified outdoor leaders. The analysis resulted in a 27-item instrument consisting of five subscales with alpha values of .75, .71, .68, .66, and .85, respectively. Renaming the five stages of career development and clarifying developmental attributes allowed for modification of the OLCDM. I used a factorial ANOVA to explore potential relationships between stages of development and gender based on educational level, years of work experience, and employment status. I also discuss implications for professional practice.

Calidad en educación superior y orientación: eficacia de un seminario de gestión personal de la carrera para pre graduados

Career services and interventions based on research and empirical evidence are progressively considered mechanisms for quality assurance in higher education. We present a study on the effectiveness of a career self-management seminar designed for help undergraduates prepare for next life career changes and goal attainment. Four hundred and twenty eight students with an age mean of 22 years old (n=208 experimental group; n=220 control group) attending university and polytechnic higher institutions in the northwestern Portugal, were assessed by the Career Exploration Survey, the Career Development Inventory and My Vocational Situation according to a pretest and posttest design. The Seminar is research based and comprises nine weekly small group sessions of 120 minutes each which facilitate students’ career planning, in-depth exploration, goal implementation and feedback competences. Results indicate significant differences between experimental and control groups, with increase in most of the career dimensions, among the experimental group. The career seminar produced a medium mean effect size of .53. The intervention positively affected undergraduates’ career self-management processual behaviors.

Development and Validation of the Career Development Inventory for Korean College Students

Development and Validation of the Career Development Inventory for Korean College Students

Validation of the short form of the career development inventory with an Iranian high school sample

A short 33-item form of the Career Development Inventory was validated on a sample of 310 Iranian high school students. Factor analysis indicated that attitude and cognitive subscale items loaded on their respective factors, and that internal reliability coefficients at all levels were satisfactory to good. Support for validity was demonstrated by associations in the expected direction for career decidedness and career decision-making self-efficacy. This short form of the inventory shows promise as a measure of career maturity with students from a non-Western country.

Integrating Career Development Techniques Into The Business School Curriculum: Tools For Better Preparing Our Graduates For Successful Careers

With shortening semesters, longer textbooks, and new information and business techniques being published, business school faculty face a constant pressure to find the time to teach all the hard skills our disciplines require. At the same time, our graduates need certain career development skills to succeed. This paper proposes an inventory of career development techniques, the Career Development Inventory (CDI), that business school faculty could incorporate into their classes to help students develop, evaluate, and achieve their career goals. These exercises have time requirements that range from 10 minutes of class time to projects completed by the students outside of class, thus offering business school faculty a wide range of options.

초등 영재의 진로성숙도 향상을 위한 집단상담 프로그램 개발

The purpose of this study was to construct and implement a program utilizing in group counseling for gifted students in the elementary school and assess and validate its effect on their career maturity. Main objectives are as follows : developing an effective way to construct the program for gifted students in the elementary school to participate in group counseling; validating its effect on the career maturity.
 This program is based on Counseling Program Development Model by Park In-woo(1995). The program consist of twelve sessions including career maturity improvement activities.
 Twenty-four students were randomly assigned into an experimental group and a control group consisting of twelve students each. The test tool was ‘Holland Career Development Inventory’ of An Chang-gyu(2003). For data processing, ‘Mixed ANOVA’ from SPSS/Window 10 was used to analyze statistical results.
 The results showed that the scores of career maturity were increased significantly in the experimental group comparing with the control group. The implication of this research is that it provided a new group counseling program which is suitable for the career characteristics of gifted elementary school students, and that it offered the basic information for their career guidance.

Group Facilitation of Vocational Maturity of Some Nigerian Adolescents

In this study, the authors investigated the influence of group career guidance programme in facilitating the vocational maturity of senior secondary school students in Ibadan. Sixty-five senior secondary school students (35 males and 30 females) randomly selected from two secondary schools in Ibadan constituted the sample with 35 in experimental and 30 in control groups. The experimental group received group career guidance by lecture method for 4 weeks. The modified version of the Super and Forrest\'s (1972) Career Development Inventory (GDI) was used to measure the students\' vocational maturity before and after treatment. ANCOVA and t-test were used to analyze the data obtained. The results indicated that group career guidance significantly improved the students\' vocational maturity but educational background and gender differences had no significant influence on their vocational maturity. The findings provide evidence that it is possible to accelerate the vocational maturity of the students and there is need for counsellors to mount group career guidance programme in their schools and colleges to meet the vocational needs of their students.Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol. 6 (1&2) 1998: pp. 27-42

Career Maturity of Students in Accelerated Versus Traditional Programs

The authors assessed the career maturity of students in accelerated versus traditional academic programs. Students in traditional programs were hypothesized to be more advanced regarding their career decision making and development when compared with students in accelerated programs. The Medical Career Development Inventory (see M. L. Savickas, 1984) was administered to 441 medical students. Results showed that students in traditional programs had significantly greater career crystallization and career specification. Interventions are needed to further the career maturity and developmental tasks of students in accelerated programs.

Development and Validation of Career Development Inventory for Adolescents

Development and Validation of Career Development Inventory for Adolescents

Validation of the Short Form of the Career Development Inventory—Australian Version with a Sample of University Students

This article reports on a further exploration into the reliability and validity of the shortened form of the Career Development Inventory—Australia (Creed & Patton, 2004), a career maturity measure being developed to meet the need for a shorter and more up-to-date measure to provide data on this career development construct. Data gathered from 170 final-year education students (34 males, 132 females) provided partial support for the measure's internal consistency, factor structure and construct validity.

The Development and Validation of a Short Form of the Australian Version of the Career Development Inventory

This study used a sample of 2173 high school students, enrolled in Years 8 to 12, to develop a 33-item shortened form (CDI-A-SF) of the Australian version of the 72-item Career Development Inventory (CDI-A). The long form of the CDI-A has been criticised for its length, difficulty and repetitive nature. The CDI-A-SF was devised with reference to content coverage and statistical criteria. Factor analysis of the short form indicated that, at the item level, subscale items loaded on their respective factors, and at the subscale level, the attitudinal and cognitive subscales loaded on the appropriate factors. Strong correlations were found between the CDI-A-SF and the CDI-A at the subscale, composite scale and total scale levels. Internal reliability coefficients for the CDI-A-SF at all levels were satisfactory to good. Initial validity for the CDI-A-SF was demonstrated by associations in the expected direction with career decidedness, self-esteem and decision-making self-efficacy, and by age and gender differences in the expected directions. The CDI-A-SF shows promise as a measure of career maturity where it is not possible or inappropriate to use the full version, although further research needs to replicate the findings and further test its validity.

Career Maturity of Australian and South African High School Students: Developmental and Contextual Explanations

The present study investigates the career maturity of 1090 high school students in Years 8 to 12 in Australia (n = 656) and South Africa (n = 434). Scores on the Australian version of the Career Development Inventory were analysed. While a developmental explanation for career maturity was supported, gender differences between countries and differences at school transition points were found. The relevance of school career education programs to prepare students for career decisions is discussed.

Toward a career development model for postbaccalaureate premedical programs: from theory to practice.

The purpose of this study was to assess the career maturity of 168 minority and disadvantaged premedical students upon entry into a medical education preparatory program. All took the Medical Career Development Inventory as a pre-assessment in the course. Students' scores identified three instructional groups: on, below, and above instructional level. A model for career intervention for postbaccalaureate premedical programs is presented.