Career Orientation of ABM Students

Career Orientation of ABM Students

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  ASSESSMENT OF CAREER ORIENTATIONAMONG ACCOUNTANCY, BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: BASIS FOR STRENGTHENING ACADEMIC OFFERING AVELINO L. GONZALES JR. & REGGIE O. CRUZ, ED.D. ANGELES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION RESEARCH CONFERENCE AUGUST 9, 2018, ANGELELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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  RATIONALE • Many ofthe students nowadays, preferably those in the high school level are generally directionless in terms of their career orientation (Schneider and Stevenson, 2006). The alarming number of students share a struggle in terms of their career path and the department of education should do an intervention about it.
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  RATIONALE • The AngelesCity Senior High School is currently offering Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) Academic Track and it is a special track for students aspiring to become businessman, accountant and some related courses. In the informal interviews, some students find the track very hard and some will pursue different track after their graduation in the senior high school. It is alarming that these mentally arises on their mind while dealing and immerse on this academic track.
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  STATEMENT OF THEPROBLEM • Moreover, the research aims to assess ABM students in their career orientation to proposed an instructional enhancement plan for strengthening the ABM students’ conviction on pursuing a business or accountancy related courses. To give a realization of this mission, the following specific problem will be established. • 1. How may the senior high school students be described in their career orientation? • 2. How may the problems encountered by the SHS students based on the analysis of the career orientation be addressed ? • 3. What instructional enhancement plan may be proposed in order to strengthen the career path of the ABM students?
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  TYPE OF RESEARCHAND RESPONDENTS The study employs descriptive research which dealt with describing the respondents in their career orientation. The Respondents are the ABM students of Angeles City Senior High School Grade 11 in the Division of Angeles City school year 2017-2018.
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  INSTRUMENT • Their weretwo instruments utilized in this study. a survey questionnaire for describing career orientation of the ABM students. The first tool is a 5-point scale on describing the respondents decision making in their career path (Pittaoulis, 2012). • The second instrument is a checklist consists of the career orientation of the student. It comprised on checking the statements applying to their own priority dealing with career orientation and the second column is the most important and a 5-scale Linkert scale on the students’ perception regarding their career orientation. There are 10 statements on their career perception and it was adopted from the study of Granitz, Chen & Kholi (2014).
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  RESULT GRADE 11 SENIORHIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DESCRIPTION IN THEIR CAREER ORIENTATION • Friends and Peers (X=3.50) and Parents and Family (X=3.42) are the most source of information regarding career path it has a verbal interpretation of near to extensively. Teachers (X=3.04) and internet-based information (X=2.63) interpret on neutral and school counselors (X=2.23) and printed materials (X=2.03) has an interpretation of somehow.
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  RESULTS • The mostchecked perceptions are on the mindset that their current course can take them to a high paying salary (77.88%), It can teach them for job skills (75%), It is very interested course/subject (74.04%), help them to get a good job (72.12%) and it can help them for a further studies career path (67.31%). • The least checked perceptions are on advised by their high school teachers and guidance counselor on choosing the subject (46.15%), parents suggested to major the course/subject (52.88%), friends suggested to major this subject (56.73%), earning good grades (58.65%) and passionate about the subject/course (60.58%).
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  RESULT • The Grade11 students of Angeles City Senior High School in the ABM track strongly agree that their course provide them the skills that they will use in their job (X=4.38) and the same interpretation that they should pick major that are related in their career goals (X=4.34) and helping them focus on what they want to do in the future (X=4.23). The respondents strongly disagree that they can able to get a college education without taking the major related to their course. The respondents have a disagree result on getting a job, getting a major is unimportant (X= 2.49).
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  THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTEREDBASED ON THE PERCEIVED ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS ON THEIR CAREER AS ABM WERE THE FOLLOWING • The first problem is on sources of information regarding their career mostly tend on their personal level, friends and peers as well as their close relatives are the mina sources of income. The reliable persons and information are left behind. • The second problem is the teachers and guidance counselors based on the result are missing in action. The teachers and specially the guidance counselors should be the focal persons for the career path of the students. • The third problem is on decrease of interest in the course is one of the problem. It marks low in the most important perceptions. The interest is slowing down that’s why they shift to other course after
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  PROPOSED INSTRUCTIONAL ENHANCEMENT PLANCAN BE SUGGEST IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE CAREER PATH OF THE STUDENTS • An Instructional Enhancement Plan is proposed on strengthening the ABM Academic Offering thru integrating strategies on different learning competencies for Grade 12 Accountancy, Business and Management. The result of the career orientation surveys and checklist are the base line to properly orient the Grade 12 students for school year 2018 – 2019 in their chosen track. • The subjects for Grade 12 are Fundamentals of Accounting, Business and Management II, Applied Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business Finance and Business Enterprise and Simulation. • It is a one-year program toward the realization of 90-100% career path on ABM track in their college degree.
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  DISCUSSION • The resultsof the career orientations of Grade 11 Students are the same with the study of Granitz and Kohli (2014) on their survey of High School students. The career of the students relies on their peers and friends and not to the reliable persons such as guidance counselors and teachers. The phenomenon of the decision-making is because of the fact that the respondents are in their teenage years and they tend to decide based on the majority of friends. • The Dissertation of Pittaoulis (2012) regarding on the thinking of selecting college majors, plan for the future has the same findings. The priority of students on the fact that the chosen track can lead them to job satisfaction and skills for much high paying job. The results have a strongly agreed interpretation on the skills and satisfaction of their future career.
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  CONCLUSION 1. The careerorientation of the students was mostly relying on their friends and peers, emphasis was given on the orientation that the chosen career pays high salary and it helps the students in their life- long skills. 2. The problems encountered were the following: low participation of teachers and guidance counselors on information drive regarding the career choice and decreasing interest on their future in the ABM track as a course in college. 3. The strengthening of academic track was integrated on Curriculum Enhancement • Plan for Grade 12 for school year 2018-2019 and it emphasized on the focal points to considerate in every competency in six ABM
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  RECOMMENDATION 1. The careerorientation plan should integrate in the annual school improvement plan to help the students and the community on aligning the academic track to their college degrees. 2. The problems on career orientation must include on the continuous improvement plan (CIP) for grade 12 to help the concerns teachers and administrators in taking care of the ABM students. 3. The following enhancements will be the following consideration: (1) Venture on Increase the importance of Printed and electronic materials (2) Strengthen the Teachers and Guidance Counselor Relationship (3) Strengthen the camaraderie of ABM Students (4) Orient the students on Business Values integrated across specialized ABM subjects (5) Venture on Media Literacy on the inspiration on the chosen SHS Academic Track (6) Apply Reward System for contests and best students in ABM.
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