Chukwuedo, Samson Onyeluka

2 Publications in AERD

Author Publications

Practitioners’ vocational guidance with direct learning model: influencing career commitment and employability in electrical/electronic technology education

By Chukwuedo, Samson Onyeluka

This study investigates the effects of vocational guidance with a direct learning model on university students’ career commitment and employability skills via career learning self-efficacy. Participants (N = 214) were electrical/electronic technology education students drawn from two universities in Nigeria. A two-group quasi-experimental design with a three-wave survey was adopted. Results revealed increased career commitment making, identification with commitment, perceived future employability skills, and career learning self-efficacy among the intervention group compared to those in the control group. Increase in career learning self-efficacy mediated identification with commitment, but not career commitment making and perceived future employability skills. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

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Optimizing vocational identity status and job search behavior via career-related practical skills training in electrical/electronic technology education

By Chukwuedo, Samson Onyeluka

This study investigates the effects of a career-related practical skill-based training intervention on job search intention via vocational identity statuses (viz. exploration, commitment, and reconsideration), job search self-efficacy behavior (JSSE-B), and career-related practical skills possessed among university students. The participants (N = 79) were electrical/electronic technology education students in Nigeria. Results showed that the intervention influenced the students' vocational identity statuses, JSSE-B, career-related practical skills, and job search intention. Contrary to our expectation, vocational identity statuses and JSSE-B failed as theorized mediators in our model; while career-related practical skills possessed is upheld as a mediator in the model.

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