The Effectiveness of a Training Program Based on Practice of Careers in Vocational Interests Development

Abstract

The present research was conducted to identify the effectiveness of a training program based on practice of careers in vocational interests development, to answer questions about the study and test  its hypothesis the training program had been prepared and the adoption of a measure of vocational  interests, as validity and reliability of each of them were  verified. The study sample consisted of (60) female students from the tenth grade in a school in Ma'an, where we were taking the two sections at the school and was selected one at random to be the experimental group and studied using a training  program  based on  the  practice of the professions and the other as a control and studied using a theoretical method about professions . Both groups were subjected to a vocational before and after   interests scale. The study results indicated  the presence of a statistically significant difference for the significance level α = 0.05 in the vocational  interests between the experimental group and the control group and the experimental group in various professions (Mmedical, Engineering, Social, Applied Sciences, Business, Educational, Office Arts, Industrial, Military), the results showed that the practice of occupations develop real vocational  interests for students, and the study set a recommendations  from  the results.

Keywords: Training Program Based on Practice, Vocational  Interests.