Conducting a Classroom to Facilitate Career Goal Attainment

Abstract

This study deals with facilitating student career goal attainment in the classroom. Its three purposes are to (1) verify an earlier finding suggesting that the experiential and simulation methods are relatively ineffective for helping students with their career goals (2) discover why students feel simulation and experiential courses are not helpful for attaining career goals and (3) discover whet distinguishes those courses (regardless of teaching method) that are helpful in students’ eyes for attaining career goals from those which are not helpful. To obtain results, 594 undergraduates were surveyed. The results indicate that the experiential teaching method in combination with lectures are seen by students as valuable for facilitating career goal attainment. The results also suggest that when the instructor tells stories and anecdotes showing the relevance of course concepts to the real world, students perceive the course as relatively helpful for pursuing careers.