scholarly journals Gamification as instrument of professional orientation for schoolchildren

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
N.A. Spirina ◽  
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S.A. Makovkina

Researched is the problem of new methods of vocational guidance of schoolchildren, because traditional forms lose their effectiveness and relevance. Such new method, as gamification, might ensure maximum involvement of participants in vocational guidance process, allow to “test” a particular profession in game created reality, and that will help to choose future career soundly. The purpose of this study is to justify relevance of incorporating gamification technology into career counseling activities and to develop practical recommendations on the use of live-action games to form psychological readiness of schoolchildren for professional self-determination. The use of gaming technologies and mechanic will allow the student to be immersed in created alternative reality, in what he gets the opportunity to feel like a specialist performing real labor function that gives a clear understanding of a certain professional activity. The authors substantiate the main advantages of gamification in career-oriented work, such as involvement, motivation, replayability and development of meta-subject skills (soft skills). The article offers three basic scenarios of live action games, as a career guidance activities for high school students, developed on the basis of the authorities’ specifics. The authors substantiate effectiveness of application of innovative methods in vocational guidance of schoolchildren. The scenarios proposed by the authors might be used for any professional activity, lend themselves to adaptation and modification, and not only increase effectiveness of career guidance measures due to the high degree of involvement of participants, but also develop meta-subject skills of senior classes’ schoolchildren.

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Zubrilin ◽  
A. S. Pronchatova ◽  
M. S. Zubrilina

The article discusses the search for ways of professional self-determination of schoolchildren in the field of information technology. It justifies the need for an informatics teacher to have the vocational guidance competencies necessary to familiarize schoolchildren with the professions of the future in the field of IT, as well as develop the modern ideas about the purpose of these professions. The material for competitions while an extracurricular training event for high school students "Future professions in the field of information technology" is given.


Author(s):  
Nana Yaw Asabere ◽  
Eric Amoako

Globally, the right and appropriate selection of tertiary programmes by potential students in education corroborates every nation's development progress. In order to explore the effect of career counseling and development in high schools in Ghana with a focus on some selected senior high school (SHS) students, this paper utilized a quantitative (questionnaire) research instrument to corroborate the development a web-based expert system for tertiary programme selection. An analytical summary of questionnaire responses received from the selected SHS students showed that due to limited career assessment processes, SHS students in Accra, Ghana arbitrary select tertiary programmes without realizing how such selections can affect their future careers. In terms of user acceptance testing (UAT), 80% of the selected SHS students (100) found our proposed system to be very useful. Such a system will therefore solve and improve career guidance, counselling, and development problems of SHS students in Ghana.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 00093
Author(s):  
Sri Tutur Martaningsih

Career success is the achievement and self-actualization of the individual in his chosen career path. Understanding self-potentials and self-weaknesses, choice suitability, readiness and decisions, and understanding career development are expected to support individual career success. Facilitating the preparation of individual career development needs to be pursued for individual careers optimal development to benefit themselves and many others. Vocational high school students armed with relevant job competences, prepared for working after graduation. On the other hand, vocational high school graduates are still in their adolescent age with the development stage of search for identity, not yet thinking about career, so they needed more intensive career insight briefing through career guidance. Career guidance in vocational high school should be able to build students’ career readiness, and the maturity in their adolescent age which is relatively unstable in their socio-emotional. This review of career guidance program evaluation is conducted qualitatively through surveys, interviews and leiterature studies to provide an overview of evaluation program and its relevance to the necessity. Understanding the quality, weaknesses, obstacles to service implementation, and potential utilization are expected to improve career guidance effectiveness services in vocational high school. An evaluation on the overall career guidance program, will provide feedback for ongoing improvement. Various evaluation models are available, it needs to be selected about the relevance to the career counseling program characteristics, so that evaluation feedback is more optimal.


Author(s):  
Ольга Яловенко ◽  
Olha Yalovenko

The article analyses the methods and technologies of professional self-determination of students in the US education system. It has been found that the theory and practice of preparing students for professional self-determination has accumulated some positive experience in the development and use of activating career guidance methods and the formation and adaptation of career guidance programs with elements of activation of high school students. Also, the article presents the analysis of basic career guidance methods and technologies in the American high school. Keywords: professional self-determination, student youth, USA, methods, technologies, career choice, career guidance games and exercises, activating career guidance questionnaires.


Author(s):  
Olena Polishchuk

Today it is extremely necessary to modernize the system of vocational guidance in Ukraine in accordance with the requirements of a market economy of content, forms and methods of career guidance, as well as public demands and achievements of prominent scientists on professional development and personal development. Thus, there is a need to critically rethink the past, improve its achievements and enrich it with the best examples of world science and practice. This will allow us to learn the signs of imbalance between supply and demand in the labor market, to determine the prospects for the development of theory and methods of vocational guidance for children, youth and adults in Ukraine. In modern conditions of socio-cultural development, the relevant qualities of a young person are not only the general educational level, but also the level of culture, socio-psychological competence, ability to think critically, the presence of their own point of view on social processes and problems. School graduates face the problem of choosing a way to prepare for a future profession. Often vocational training in an institution is chosen at random. Half of school graduates are immediately employed without special training and therefore professional career prospects. Modern technologies of career guidance work are designed to provide conditions for a person to realize his attitude to himself as a subject of professional work and behavior, which aims to independently search for professions taking into account their own interests and capabilities, and then the labor market. The purpose of the article is a theoretical analysis of the scientific problem of socio-psychological readiness of high school students to enter higher education institutions, the disclosure of the problem of professional self-determination of the individual in market processes. Research methods used: analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature; comparative-historical method of foreign and domestic experience in the study of socio-psychological readiness as a socio-psychological phenomenon.


2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Sh. Demissenova ◽  

This article describes the experience of supervising teachers of psychological and pedagogical disciplines for students of educational psychologists, psychologists in organizing and conducting career guidance work with senior students. The issues of developmental work with an optician, vocational counseling, psychodiagnostics for choosing a profession are considered, and promising directions of vocational guidance work, difficulties and typical mistakes are considered. A detailed description of the preliminary work on the training of volunteers from among the students of the bachelor's degree programs "Psychology" and "Pedagogy and Psychology" for conducting career guidance activities with high school volunteers is given. The technology of sampling and documentary registration of permission to conduct vocational guidance work with teenage high school students is revealed. Potential possibilities of application of a number of psychodiagnostic techniques are analyzed. Recommendations for their implementation and interpretation are given. The effectiveness of the use of activating methods of vocational guidance and the expediency of their inclusion in the structure of developing training sessions are shown. The entire career guidance program is built in accordance with the content of the classification of professions according to E.A. Klimov. The article analyzes the experience and prospects for the development of practical skills of psychology students, teachers-psychologists in career guidance activities with high school students.


Author(s):  
Сергей Иванович Кудинов ◽  
Станислав Сергеевич Кудинов ◽  
Владислав Сергеевич Кудинов ◽  
Александра Андреевна Достатняя

Анализируется рефлексивность как основа самопознания и понимания себя субъектом в будущей профессиональной деятельности. Проанализированы психологические особенности профессионального становления личности в юношеском возрасте, рассмотрена специфика проявления рефлективности, выделены уровни ее развития и определена роль в профессиональном самоопределении старшеклассников. Эмпирическое исследование проведено на выборке 244 учащихся (136 девушек и 108 юношей, средний возраст - 16 лет). В исследовании были использованы: тест на выявление профессионального типа личности Дж. Холанда в модификации (Г.В. Резапкиной); методика «Мотивы выбора профессии» Г. Овчаровой; методика определения уровней развития рефлексивности А. Карпова; методика «Дифференциальный тип рефлексии» Д.А. Леонтьева и эссе на тему «Роль прошлого, настоящего и будущего в моей жизни». По результатам пилотажного этапа исследования выделены три группы респондентов с разными показателями рефлексивности. Количественный и качественный анализ показателей рефлексивности и профессионального самоопределения старшеклассников позволил установить специфическое соотношение указанных характеристик. Результаты исследования могут стать основой для развития рефлексивности старшеклассников и для создания программ актуализации их профессионального самоопределения. The analyzes reflexivity as the basis of self-knowledge and understanding of oneself as a subject in future professional activity. The psychological features of the professional formation of a personality in the youth age were analyzed, the specifics of the manifestation of reflexivity were considered, the levels of its development were singled out and the role in the professional self-determination of high school students was defined. An empirical study was carried out on a sample of 244 students (136 girls and 108 boys, average age - 16 years). In the empirical study, the following were used: the test to identify the professional type of personality of J. Holand in a modification (G.V. Rezapkina); the method «Motives for Choosing a Profession» by G. Ovcharova; Karpov's method to determine the levels of development of reflexivity; the technique «Differential Type of Reflexion» by D.A. Leontiev and the essay «The Role of the Past, Present, and Future in My Life». In the course of the empirical study, three groups of respondents with different indicators of reflexivity were identified. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the indexes of reflexivity and professional self-determination of high school students allowed us to establish a specific correlation of these characteristics. The results of the research can become the basis both for the development of the reflexivity of high school students and for the creation of programs to actualize their professional self-determination.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08032
Author(s):  
Mariam Nogerova ◽  
Rakhima Malkarova ◽  
Azamat Sozaev

The relevance of the study of the problem of professional self-determination of high school students and features of the choice of profession by modern graduates is substantiated. The degree of expression of pedagogical inclinations in the structure of professional personality types and types of professional activity of graduates as a result of research of high school students is established. Methods were used: a questionnaire of professional inclinations (L. Yovaishi’s method in G. V. Rezapkina’s modification), the method “Determination of professional personality type” (J. V. Rezapkina’s method). Holland in the modification Of G. V. Resorcinol), methods - methods “Matrix choice of profession” G. V. Resorcinol. It was found that the most common professional personality type among high school students with pedagogical inclinations is the social type. Respondents with a tendency to pedagogical activity often have a harmonious structure of professional choice, namely, a high indicator in which all three components of professional choice (inclinations, interests, type) are clearly expressed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Adnan Achiruddin Saleh

Islamic career counseling is an accompaniment program conducted on High School Students / Equals through counseling and training process. This program intends to assist in determining career after finishing high school. This form of assistance is starting from potential mapping through the theory of multiple intelligences, making affirmations and goal setting, untilarrange self-efficacy. However, this paper contains the development of career theories and field experience of the author during running Islamic career guidance program in South Sulawesi.


Author(s):  
Oksana Tashkinova ◽  
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Svetlana Bulgakova ◽  
Maria Gontar ◽  
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...  

The article analyzes the features of the introduction of innovative forms of career guidance work with student youth. It is determined that the problem of preparing high school students to choose their own professional future is important in today's world. It is noted that the success of a young person's life largely depends on how correct was the choice of profession, institution of higher education, profession. At the same time, the chosen profession should correspond to the personal qualities and capabilities of a young person, be interesting, and create opportunities for competitiveness in the labor market. Various organizational forms of career guidance work are analyzed: social and psychological services in secondary schools; career guidance departments in basic employment centers; resource centers for professional orientation of student youth in educational districts; social service centers for families, children and youth; various out-of-school institutions; career guidance and recruitment departments in higher education institutions, etc. Emphasis is placed on the need to introduce new organizational forms of career guidance work on the principle of "peer teaches peer", where students of socionomic professions activate high school students to responsibly choose their own professional future. On the one hand, this form of interaction is more effective and efficient because students better understand the interests, motives and needs of high school students. On the other hand, it can become a form of practice for students enrolled in educational programs of socionomic specialties of the first and second levels of higher education (social work, practical psychology, social pedagogy, etc.). The activity of the vocational guidance hub "PROFIT QUEST" on the basis of SHEI "Priazovsky State Technical University" is considered. The purpose and tasks of the career guidance hub are analyzed. The activity of the Vocational Guidance Hub "PROFit quest" is aimed at vocational guidance work with high school students, especially from families in SJO, on professional information, professional diagnostics, professional counseling and professional activation in the form of games and training. Among the technologies used in the activities of the career guidance hub, the following are considered: use in the role; information and educational technologies; technologies for awareness of one's own professional abilities; technologies for involving specialists of interested organizations in the project and others. The results of the online survey of training participants, career guidance testing and thematic quest game are analyzed.


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