Relationship between Students' Sense and Consciousness of Classes and Career Decision in a Technical High School

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to grasp the relationship between the students' sense and their consciousness of classes and career decisions in a technical high school. Our previous research, we carried out a survey to analyze the teachers' points of view of grasping the students' sense. From these results, we found five factors: "deliberativeness", "exploration mind", "adaptability", "autonomy" and "originality" (Itsumi & Moriyama, 2011). Based on these five factors, we modified the question items and conducted a survey of 512 technical high school students. As a result, confirmative factor analysis supported our earlier findings above of the five factors in a modified scale. Using these items, we examined the relationship between the students' sense and their consciousness of career decisions. The results indicated that self-evaluation of sense in students, students who wish to specialize in their future career showed significantly higher scores in the five factors than other students. Again, the results indicated that self-evaluation of sense in students, students who with positive attitudes in technical subject classes showed significantly higher scores in the five factors than other students.