Career choices and aptitudes of junior and senior high school students of Andres Soriano Memorial School (ASMS) and their parents' career choices and a proposed developmental guidance program for ASMS

• Main Author: Sinajon, Esperanza M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1977
• Subjects: Vocational guidance; Andres Soriano Memorial School (Philippines); Counseling
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/471
• Institution: De La Salle University

The subjects for this research were made up of all the third and fourth year high school students of Andres Soriano Memorial School (ASMS) and their parents for the school year 1976-1977. The entire population consisted of 40 third year students, 46 students from the fourth year and 35 third year parents and 40 parents of fourth year students. The instruments used for data gathering were : 1. Informal interviews with students from the first to the fourth years, 2. Questionnaire for Students consisting of items derived from The Careers Survey and the Career Choice Checklists of the Career Materials Development Project (CMDP) of De La Salle University and theses on career guidance especially that of Ipong (1974), 3. Checklist of Careers for Parents and Students based on the Philippine Occupational Classifications with Codes, Titles and Definitions (Department of Labor, 1971) and the DAT Career Planning Program Counselor's Manual (Super, 1973), 4. Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT) by Anastasi (1968). Statistical tools used were the percentages and the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation. The following conclusions were drawn from the findings of the study : 1. Male students tended to choose careers in the engineering fields. Female students tended to choose occupations in the medical and business fields. 2. Students tended to select careers for which they did not have the required aptitudes. 3. Parents' career choices for their children did not coincide with the career choices of their children. 4. The students, especially the boys tended to choose careers prevalent in their locality and therefore were inclined towards the engineering fields, while the girls preferred the medical and medically related fields as well as the clerical and business fields. 5. The career needs and concerns of these students centered on the lack of information about themselves and on the lack of information about the world of work. 6. The low DAT scores obtained by the students could not be attributed solely to their lack of mental abiliti