1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.

1 BACKROUND OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT Public interest education has been strong in recent years, but there is on our area education system has been overlooked. A part of our vocational and technical schools system which provides a vital link between our students and their success in the world after school. That area is a career and technical educations stated by Jack OConnell represent the 18th Senate District, press release. The students understand how their current educational and personal choices will affect their future life roles, in particular their choices for a career. To provide domestic science course at school with the skill, self- esteem and attitudes they need for a rewarding work life. Youth who are most likely to think about their future careers, and believe that they have a variety of career options, have high self-esteem and are able to understand and evaluate complex career information. They have families that help them learn about career choices and support their efforts, in school and outside, to prepare for a career. This guide provides information about how vocational and technical school, domestic science course in specialist, they can focus students attention on career opportunities. How they can encourage their career attentiveness.

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1.2 A RATIONALE FOR THE RESEARCH a) To preparing students for work to work, career education programs make a tremendous difference in the academic life of student because tomorrows jobs will require more sophisticated skills. Even today, many professions require high levels of technical skill. b) Why has it been hard to make headway in the area of career and technical education? I think we can point to three misconceptions about career/technical education:

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Myth #: Career and technical education leads us to low skill and low-paying jobs TRUTH: Career and technical courses for example domestic science courses prepare students for some highly skilled and highly paid positions. These offer courses in areas such as fashion designing, catering and preparation food, make-up and hair stylish and culinary arts.

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Myth #: School-to-work programs cheat us out of higher education by encouraging them to enter the workforce immediately TRUTH: Many students who participate in career and technical education go on to attend colleges and some universities. In fact, many local universities and colleges offered a career and technical program for example MARA University of Technology, Taylors College and many more. And these classes can actually give students leg up on other students when they get to college or university.

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Myth #: Career and technical education is no connected to our standards-based core curriculum TRUTH: The skills taught in vocational education have a direct link back to the subjects taught in preparation for the high school exit exam and other standardsbased assessment. I know that there are efforts underway to crosswalk the high school exit exam skills to subjects taught in their courses. Many of these program provide core academic training in an applies setting.

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1.3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

a) To view a significant challenges facing a globalization on career awareness among

vocational students and career development foundations shift in a rapid changing world.

b) The study examined the relationships among vocational interests, career

maturity, academic performance and academic interests of domestic science students in vocational school.

c) To study assess the level of empowerment between career and technical education to impact of the domestic science students.

d) To determine if differences existed in the levels between Form 4 and Form 5 at

vocational school based on selected characteristic, the proportion of variance explained was so small as to make the differences to be of little practical significance.

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1.4 HYPOTHESIS

H0 - The successful completion of domestic science courses represents a channel for greater earning and upward career mobility and also increases the likelihood that one of vocational school will have better prospects for earning and employment.

H1 A sensitivities of career development did not impact the successful completion of domestic science represents a channel for greater earning and upward career mobility and also did not increases the likelihood that one of vocational school will have better prospects for earning and employment.

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1.5 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Theoretical framework is model of how a group of logically related statement that explains things that have occurred in the past and predict things that will occur in the future. On the other hand, a class of outcomes can take on more than one value. Variables are what researchers study; on career awareness among domestic science student from vocational school in related to career development. From this part, a testable and acceptable hypothesis can develop to examine whether the theory formulated is valid or not.

INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
DOMESTICS STUDENT JOB FIELDS CURICULLUM SCHOOL STRUCTURE GENDERS SCHEME

INTERVENING VARIABLES
COUNSELING CAREER GUIDER MOTIVATION TALKS READING

DEPENDENT VARIABLES
CAREER DEVELOPMENT CAREER MATURITY CAREER PROSPECT

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2.0 A LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH Many theories of career development are derived from theories of personality (Sharf 1997) they attempt to illuminate the interrelationship of individual personality and behavior with work and careers. Some career development theories include trait and factor, life-span, and social cognitive (Sharf 1997). Trait and factor theories tend to deal with career issues at one point in time, where as life-span theories take a long-term and development perspective. The most widely known life-span theory is Supers Theory of Vocational Choice which suggests that individuals pass through stages of vocational development involving developmental tasks at each stage; it also considers the performance of multiple roles and their interaction across the life-span (Stitt-Gohdes 1997). Super considered self-concept and vocational maturity to be important determinants in occupational choices. Career maturity is the readiness to make appropriate career decisions (Lundberg et al. 1997). It has often been measured using majority populations as the nom, but research on diverse populations demonstrates that some of the variable used to measure it may not apply to all groups (Leong 1995). Career maturity is influenced by age, race and ethnicity, locus of control, socioeconomic status, work salience and gender (Naido 1998). The complex interaction of these factors affects individuals readiness to succeed in mastering the tasks appropriate to various stages of career development. There are many theories of vocational choice and career development. Some explain occupational choice in terms of environmental influences (Caplow, 1954; Clark, 1931; Hollingshead, 1949; Miller & Form, 1964). Most persons can be categories as one of six type: realistic, investigative, social, conventional, enterprising and artistic.Holland (1973)

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accordingly developed the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) for surveying the six types of vocational interest. The VPI is construct-oriented and seems to be most appropriate for cross-cultural studies. In dealing with influential factors, many studies on vocational choice have focused on socioeconomic aspects and self-concept dimensions. However, there is still the intelligence factor.

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3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 RESEARCH PROCESS

1. OBSERVATION & LITERARY PREVIOUS RESEARCH Classified area of research interest identified

2. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

3. PRELIMINATED DATA Questionnaire Literature surveying and reading

4. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Variables ; DV {Career Development}, IV {Domestic Sciences Students}

5. FORMULATION HYPOTHESIS

6. RESEARCH DESIGN

7. DATA COLLECTION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

YES

NO

9. REPORT WRITING

YES NO
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3.2 SAMPLING Sampling is the process of selecting a sufficient number of elements from the population and understanding the properties or characteristic of the sample subjects. A sample should be big enough to answer the research question, but not so big that the process of sampling becomes uneconomical and inefficient. The sample used in this study consisted of 80 students who are enrolled at Sekolah Menengah Vokasional Sungai Petani 2 during of 1996/97. These student who are Form 4 and Form 5, were recruited from Domestic Science courses; Catering Course, Bakery and Confectionary Course, Make-up and Hair stylish and Fashion Design.

3.2.1 Sampling Strategy Probability sampling strategy is the most effective and efficient had chosen in the research. Where every personnel are has a known and equal chance of being as a subject.

3.2.2 Types of Sampling To collect a data before I was justify a type of sampling, which are Stratified and Cluster Sampling.

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3.3 DATA COLLECTION There are basically three types of sources that will consult my research throughout my review of the literature: Information sources General sources What it does Provide an overview of a topic before deciding a topic and collecting information Provides a specific level of information from the original work The Examples Newspaper, text readers digest

books,

Secondary sources

Review

of

research

literature review of research

Primary sources

original

report

or

Graph,

journal,

article,

experience and or recorded data information

abstract, data analysis and data recorded.

3.4 PROCESSING AND ANALYZING THE DATA

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The questionnaire will be well structured, designed and scaled accordingly. A statistical package of SPSS 10.0 window will be used in order to aid understanding of some practical research application. While it is difficult to identify whether variable are independent and dependent, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) will be used. His measures the degree and direction of influence that the independent variables has on the dependent variable and to obtain an equation that would predict the categories of the dependent

variables when it is not known, base on the known value of the independent variable

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