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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

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

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
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