أثر برنامج توجيهي قائم على استراتيجيات التفكير الإبداعي في تنمية مهارات التخطيط المهني لطلبة الصف العاشر الموهوبين أكاديميًّا

Abstract EN

This study is aimed to investigate the effect of career guidance program in developing careerplanning skills using creative thinking strategies among academically gifted tenth standard students in Muscat.

The sample consisted of 102 male and female students that was divided randomly into two groups; the experimental group 50 students and the control group 52 students.

The experimental group underwent the program while the control group underwent career activities.

The study adopted the quasi-experimental method that used Career Planning Scale, which consisted of 48 statements divided into six dimensions: Knowledge of World of Work, Self- Knowledge, Knowledge of Occupations, Career Decision-Making, Career Planning, Career Implementation.

The Cronbach’s alpha index of the scale was 0.95.

The results showed significant statistical differences between the average response of the members in the experimental group and the average response of the members in the control group on all scale dimensions in the post-experiment implementation in favor of the experimental group and it also showed differences between the average of the experimental group in pre and post implementation in favor of the posttest.

The results of two-way ANOVA analyses showed no statistically significance differences on gender variable on the scale and it also showed that differences in performance with regards to the interaction effect between gender and group had no statistical significance differences.

The results also showed that there was no difference in statistical significance between the average of the experimental group in post and post two (follow up) implementation on all scale dimensions.