The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated advisement delivery algorhythm that would combine career counseling and academic advising in one package. Working with a panel of experts from the fields of career counseling, academic advising, and materials development, a flow diagram was developed to show what needed to occur at each logical step. / The conceptual framework of this study was based on Harren's Career Decision-making Model which states that a student begins with the awareness that a choice of major and occupation must be made, progressing through a planning phase of exploring options, to making a commitment and then implementing that commitment. In order to ensure that the algorhythm would accomplish the purposes of the model, Bailey and Stadt's Career Curriculum Development Model was used for the methodology. / Bailey and Statd's model calls for a five step process with a mechanism for feedback at each step. The panel of experts was utilized to provide this feedback. Beginning with the establishment of the purposes, goals and objectives of the materials, the actual instructional materials based on the algorhythm were developed and subjected to experimental field-testing before possible adoption and diffusion. In the field-testing, both a computer implementation and a paper-and-pencil implementation of the algorhythm were used at Gulf Coast Community College with full-time freshman students who were undecided about their choice of major. / Utilizing Harren's Assessments for Career Decision-Making Scales for occupation and major as pre-tests and post-test, it was determined that the algorhythm was effective in raising the students' commitment level to choice of occupation and choice of major. It was also found that the computer version of the algorhythm was more effective than the paper-and-pencil version. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-01, Section: A, page: 0082. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75483 |
| Contributors | MCCONNELL, NANCY CASNER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 113 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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