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2016 » Papers » Volume 2 » USING ONLINE INSTRUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERESTS, ABILITIES AND VALUES - RELEVANT RESULTS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND LESSONS LEARNED 1. USING ONLINE INSTRUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERESTS, ABILITIES AND VALUES - RELEVANT RESULTS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND LESSONS LEARNED Authors: Mardar Sorina, Mustata Marinel-Adi, Risnoveanu Adriana Volume 2 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-16-147 | Pages: 405-409 | Download PDF | Abstract
The ProSCOP project, implemented by "Carol I" National Defence University in 2015, has proposed for relevant stakeholders, among other activities, professional counseling and career guidance. The latter were dedicated to 180 bachelor and master students enrolled in five study programs organized in Bucharest and Brasov. In order to better understand the tasks ahead, the counseling team has designed and administered a questionnaire for identifying student counseling needs at the beginning of the project and a questionnaire for identifying interest, abilities and professional values in the second phase of the project. If the first questionnaire has been administered in the 'pencil and paper' format, the second one was administered online due to several reasons: the target public was no longer accessible in one location, there was not much time for administering and the team needed some automated tool that could provide easy processing facilities and database management.
The paper describes the online experience of the counseling team, while emphasizing the lessons learned, the advantages and disadvantages of such a research strategy and presents some relevant results concerning student interests, abilities and values towards a future place of employment that were further used in the counseling itself.
As expected, the online use of the questionnaire provided the efficiency in terms of time and effort that the team needed. By generating an automated database the team could readily use the raw data in statistical software tools such as SPSS without major interventions on the data. A major downsize of the strategy was the lack of direct contact with the respondents who sometimes did not understand the purpose of the question and/or left the possible answers unchecked. | Keywords
professional counseling, career guidance, online questionnaire, lessons learned |
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