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
- Effect size: 0.38
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 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 |