Understanding transitions in exploration profiles of students opting for higher education.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Since previous research on educational career exploration has mainly been cross-sectional and therefore has been unsuccessful in explaining how this process can change during the final year in secondary education before students make the transition to higher education, this study aimed to examine changes over time in the exploration process. A person-centered research perspective was taken to further deepen the understanding of how different exploration tasks jointly combine into meaningful profiles. In this way, this study tried to gain more insight into why some students go through this process successfully and others do not. Four goals guided this study: identifying exploration profiles of students in Fall and Spring of the final year in secondary school based on fo

SUBMITTER: Demulder L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948654 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature