Career Readiness Among Vocational Graduates: Implication of Competency Based Learning

Fazillah Musa and Abdullah Mat Rashid*
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Fazillah Musa: Sekolah Kebangsaan Cyber Jaya, Malaysia
Abdullah Mat Rashid*: Department of Science and Technical Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia

The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2020, vol. 6, issue 6, 633-638

Abstract: This study aims to investigate career readiness among graduates of vocational colleges in Malaysia. Past research shows that graduates from technical and vocational institutions faced problems in choosing a career. In Malaysia, competency based learning adopted by vocational colleges to create opportunities for student personalized their own learning regardless of time, place and pace of learning. This ex post facto research design is intended to identify the level of career readiness of vocational college graduates, and to examine the effect of the CBL approaches implemented in vocational colleges on graduates’ level of career readiness.  The total of 330 graduates from fifteen vocational colleges in Malaysia were randomly selected as respondents in this study. Finding shows that the graduate career readiness is at lower level whereas the one-way ANOVA analysis shows that the CBL approaches do not have a significant effect on the level of career readiness among vocational college graduates.

Keywords: Technical and vocational education and training (TVET); Vocational students; Vocational college’s graduates; Choosing a career; Learning approach; Preparing student for career readiness. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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