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Identifying the Students’ Needs for Guidance at Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

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  • Serdar Özmen

    (Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus)

  • Cigdem Hursen

    (Assoc. Prof. Dr., Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the needs of vocational and technical Anatolian high school students for guidance. A mixed research methodology is employed in this descriptive study. With the guidance needs analysis survey, quantitative data was collected about the needs of students for guidance from a total of 2228 participants including 1437 students, 304 teachers and 487 parents. The qualitative data in the research were collected from school counsellors employed in vocational and technical high schools, from the heads of guidance services employed in guidance research centres, from psychological guidance and counselling specialists working in the Ministry of National Education, from psychological counsellors representing Turkish Psychological Counselling and Guidance Association and those engaged by educational unions. The research revealed findings that the students need intensive guidance on topics such as identification of future career goals, learning effective studying methods, self-knowledge of interests and abilities, knowledge of professions and their basic requirements, focusing attention during lessons, protection from addiction, knowledge of developmental features of adolescence, university admission exams and opportunities for higher education. Furthermore, it was revealed that the guidance needs of the students were not met sufficiently, they needed services in all areas of personal-social, educational and career guidance, female students needed guidance services more than male students, and students felt more need of guidance services at higher grades. In line with the results of the study, further recommendations are presented to provide for the guidance needs of students.

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  • Serdar Özmen & Cigdem Hursen, 2020. "Identifying the Students’ Needs for Guidance at Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School," Postmodern Openings, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11(4), pages 79-108, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:11:y:2020:i:4:p:79-108
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/po/11.4/224
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    Keywords

    Comprehensive developmental guidance programmes; developmental guidance; guidance and psychological counselling; needs analysis; school guidance services;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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