TY - JOUR
T1 - Study profile choices in secondary education
T2 - searching for factors underlying the recommendations made by school guidance counsellors and tutors to vignette students
AU - Wichgers, Inge J.M.
AU - Korpershoek, Hanke
AU - Warrens, Matthijs J.
AU - Dijks, Monique A.
AU - Bosker, Roel J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Dutch secondary education counsellors and tutors guide students in their study profile choices. Case studies were used to identify factors that characterise profile recommendations. In Case Study 1, vignette (fictitious) students asked for advice. Of the 12 participants, eight provided product advice (study profiles) and 12 provided process advice (important factors), mainly relating to students’ interests. In Case Study 2, vignette students wanted to choose between a profile for which they had better marks, or one in which they were more interested. Of the 19 participants, 12 recommended study profiles. All participants provided process recommendations: these mainly involved interests, but also marks. In both case studies, recommendations were not characterised by students’ SES, and a few were somewhat characterised by gender.
AB - Dutch secondary education counsellors and tutors guide students in their study profile choices. Case studies were used to identify factors that characterise profile recommendations. In Case Study 1, vignette (fictitious) students asked for advice. Of the 12 participants, eight provided product advice (study profiles) and 12 provided process advice (important factors), mainly relating to students’ interests. In Case Study 2, vignette students wanted to choose between a profile for which they had better marks, or one in which they were more interested. Of the 19 participants, 12 recommended study profiles. All participants provided process recommendations: these mainly involved interests, but also marks. In both case studies, recommendations were not characterised by students’ SES, and a few were somewhat characterised by gender.
KW - career counselling
KW - career guidance and counselling
KW - educational guidance
KW - secondary school
KW - Subject choices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131741486&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03069885.2022.2068504
DO - 10.1080/03069885.2022.2068504
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131741486
SN - 0306-9885
VL - 51
SP - 1005
EP - 1024
JO - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
JF - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
IS - 6
ER -