yaser azad; kiimars farahbakhsh; Abdollah Shafiabadi; Hosein Salimi Bajestani; mohammad rabiei
Abstract
Students educational motivation and concerns for future employment are interlocked and higher education institutions play vital role in this issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of of career Selection Skills in predicting the level of students' academic motivation. Method: The experimental ...
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Students educational motivation and concerns for future employment are interlocked and higher education institutions play vital role in this issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of of career Selection Skills in predicting the level of students' academic motivation. Method: The experimental design was pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population consisted of all students referred to Shahrekord University Counseling Center and The sample consisted of 40 students who did not have academic motivation or low academic motivation. They were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (20) and a control group (20). The experimental group trained seven 90-minute sessions. The research instrument was Valerand et al. (1985). The data were analyzed using covariance analysis. The results showed that training of employment skills on internal educational motivation and lack of motivation was significant and did not have significant effect on external educational motivation. Discussion: Training of career Selection Skills has been effective in increasing internal motivation and Lack of academic motivation.
