Career interventions
Overview
- Influence: Career interventions
- Domain: Curricula
- Sub-Domain: Other curricula programs
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: A form of counseling typically designed to provide those at risk of joblessness with guidance on how to navigate short-term and long-term career challenges. Career interventions are designed to increase "exploratory" thinking about future career prospects and to make career decisions based upon guided research.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 143
- Number of students: 159,243
- Number of effects: 243
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.34
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vocational Guidance Quarterly | Baker & Popowicz | USA | Meta-analysis as a strategy for evaluating effects of career education interventions | 1983 | Evaluating career education on outcomes | 18 | 0 | 118 | 0.50 |
| Journal of Counseling Psychology | Oliver & Spokane | USA | Career-intervention outcome: What contributes to client gain? | 1988 | Career education interventions | 58 | 0 | 58 | 0.48 |
| Journal of Counseling and Development | Evans & Burck | USA | The effects of career education interventions on academic achievement: A meta-analysis | 1992 | Career education interventions | 67 | 159,243 | 67 | 0.17 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 143 | 159,243 | 243 | 0.38 | |||||