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The document discusses various factors influencing junior high school students' career decision-making, including personal, group, and socioeconomic factors. It highlights the importance of understanding these factors to develop tools and strategies that assist students in making informed career choices. The study emphasizes the need for targeted career selection programs that involve key individuals like parents and the community to support students in their career paths.

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The document discusses various factors influencing junior high school students' career decision-making, including personal, group, and socioeconomic factors. It highlights the importance of understanding these factors to develop tools and strategies that assist students in making informed career choices. The study emphasizes the need for targeted career selection programs that involve key individuals like parents and the community to support students in their career paths.

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This is also supported by the study entitled “Factors Affecting the Student

Career Decision-Making of Junior High School Students in Central Taiwan Area”


published by International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Su et.
al. (2016) revealed that students’ career decision-making is most deeply affected by
personal factor, next are group factor and career exploration factor, and school factor
has the lowest affecting level to them.
This study is divided student-related factors affecting career decision-making
into three aspects: learning motivation, learning attitude, and self-efficacy; among
which, students of large-sized schools with taking household affairs courses whose
overall affecting level of personal factors for their career decision-making will be
greater than students of medium-sizes schools with taking industrial and commercial
courses; students of large-sized schools with taking household affairs courses whose
affecting level of learning motivation will be greater than students of small-sized
schools with taking commercial courses; female students of medium/large-sized
schools with middle-level education degree parents and taking household affairs
courses whose affecting level of learning attitude will be higher than male students of
medium-sized schools with lower education degree parents and taking industrial and
commercial courses; and students with taking household affairs course whose
affecting level of self-efficacy will be greater than students with taking commercial
courses.

Moreover, family-related factors were also included. The group factors


affecting career decision-making were divided into 2 aspects: parents’ educational
expectation and parents’ educational attitude, students with middle/above parents’
educational degree whose affecting level of group factor overall and parents’
educational expectation for career decision-making will be higher than students with
lower parents’ educational degree; students with middle parents’ educational degree
will have higher affecting level of parents’ educational attitude than students with
lower parents’ educational degree.

In addition, it involves the socioeconomic factors like teacher expectation and


peer influence, where students with taking household affairs courses whose affecting
level of school factors overall and peer influence for their career decision-making will
be higher than students with taking industrial courses; students of medium/large-sized
schools whose affect as ascertained by Japitan et. al (2015) in their thesis entitled
“Factors Affecting Senior High School Track Preferences of Grade 9 Students of Don
Bosco Technology Center, Inc. Academic Year 2014 - 2015: A Basis for Career
Guidance Program”, the students are influenced by personality, interests,
family/relatives, and job opportunities factors in choosing their track preference.
Specifically, in the area of personality factors, fitting the personality to career is the
leading factor. The same goes for awareness of the family support on the area of
family factors, particular interest on the career among interest factors, and awareness
of the opportunities surrounding the chosen career among the factors regarding job
opportunities.

It is momentous to the present study since it discusses the factors relevant to


this study. It can serve as basis to the researchers to know the other factors that
contribute to the choice of strand and track of students. This study could help the
researchers in the way that the factors stated could be also encountered in present
study.

The aforementioned studies have substantial value in this study for the reason
that they deals with the factors affecting the track and strand choice of students in
senior high school.
The present study is analogous to the different studies conducted by different
researchers because the researchers also considered student-related factors, family-
related factors, and socioeconomic factors as the factors affects the career preference.
Though, this also includes the level of satisfaction of the students on their chosen
strand and track. Furthermore, the study was conducted in senior high school in a
rural area unlike those above-mentioned studies that were conducted in urban places.

Creativity, trial and error, decision-making, and sound judgment are all
required in career choices. To create and cultivate an interest in a given vocation, it is
vital to have prior understanding about that career. Self-defining activities that are
vital for one's soul, heart, and power are powerfully pulled to passion. A person's
professional success is best achieved when his course selection is based on the correct
career for his talent, personality, background, and intelligence. Many students make
judgments based on their personal preferences rather than what the work market
requires. According to the findings, understanding entrepreneurship and its processes
requires passion (Magdadaro, 2020).
Literature review
The researchers discussed the implementation of the additional two years in the
Philippine high school system. As part of the program, students are set to choose one
track from ten academic strands. With several factors to consider, the selection of a
career path may be difficult for a student. The researcher proposed a study that aims
to create a tool that will guide students in choosing a particular career track using
Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). To
identify the factors in considering the selection of career, the researchers used the
SCCT, whereas the AHP was used in ranking the career tracks according to these
factors. Evaluation of the tool in terms of design, navigation, and utility was also
conducted on more than 150 Grade 10 students using pilot testing (Gestiada,
Nazareno & Roxas-Villanueva, 2017).
According to the study of Rafanan et al. (2020), the artificial neural network approach
can be used in predicting the career strand of incoming senior high school students.
The K-12 program gives additional two years in the students’ basic education, and
these ancillary years allow senior high school students to take courses under the core
curriculum and the track of choice. Each student must select one track to pursue that
can equip him/her with skills to prepare for the future. Prediction of choice of a career
track in senior high school is advantageous for educational institutions since it gives
insights that can help them develop vital programs beneficial for students learning in
school. In this study, the applied artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the career
strand based on the students' grades in five major subjects. Different ANN models
have been considered and compared.

Recognizing the factors that may affect students’ career


decisions is essential in developing strategies that may
help them make intelligent career choices. Identifying
these factors was beneficial in developing a career
decision-making tool (Gestiada et al. 2017) and predicting
the career strand of incoming SHS students (Nazareno et
al. 2019). Individuals whom the students trust the most
can play a vital role in guiding them in career-decision
planning. Hence, career selection and development
programs that target these key individuals (parents and
the community) should be encouraged to guide students
to make sound decisions. Moreover, the insights that
can be obtained can be helpful to education institutions
in facilitating students’ success in the chosen career
track. For instance, it can enable educators to align their
teaching materials and pedagogical strategies with their
characteristics and interests.
Appropriate career choice does not only impact a person’s
life but society in general. Several studies about K to 12
have been published in recent years. In the Philippines,
studies were mainly on the assessment of the program
and its challenges. Few studies have been published about
factors affecting career track choice. An investigation of
this aspect may be useful in facilitating the success of this
educational reform. In this study, the factors that might
be associated with the career track choice of Grade 11
students and the extent of influence of some factors in
deciding which track to pursue were examined. Specifically,
the study aimed to investigate the relationship of several
variables – namely, socio-demographic profile, parent’s
profile, and academic performance in various subject areas
– to the student’s choice of a career track in SHS. Moreover,
the study intended to determine the level of influence of
students’ support systems and other external factors in the
students’ decisions about career tracks.

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