Exploratory Honors Students: Academic Major and Career Decision Making

Autor/inn/en	Carduner, Jessie; Padak, Gary M.; Reynolds, Jamie
Titel	Exploratory Honors Students: Academic Major and Career Decision Making
Quelle	In: NACADA Journal, 31 (2011) 1, S.14-28 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-9517
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Student Attitudes; Academic Advising; Honors Curriculum; Interviews; Content Analysis; Position Papers; Decision Making; Career Choice; Qualitative Research; Investigations; Student Educational Objectives; Attribution Theory; Help Seeking; Student Behavior; Educational Counseling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Akademischer Rat; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Inhaltsanalyse; Positionspapier; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Qualitative Forschung; Untersuchung; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Student behaviour; Educational counselling; Educational guidance; Bildungsberatung; Erziehungsberatung
Abstract	In this qualitative study, we investigated the academic major and career decision-making processes of honors college students who were declared as "exploratory" students in their freshman year at a large, public, midwestern university. We used semistandardized interviews and document analysis as primary data collection methods to answer four research questions. Results indicated that the 17 participants used aspects of rational choice and alternate models in making decisions. They perceived both advantages and disadvantages of their multipotentiality and developed strategies, such as selecting broad or multiple majors, to offset the disadvantages. Students consulted college academic advisors less than expected when making decisions, and they expressed more concern about happiness than either job availability or earnings than did students in other studies. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10