Abstract:

This study intends to analyze the vocational maturity levels of the Anatolian and General high schools students considering different variables The aim of the study is to examine whether there is a difference between the vocational maturity levels of the Anatolian and General High school students and to analyze their vocational maturity levels according to different variables The vocational maturity levels of the students have been examined in terms of some variables including grade age perceived achievement level provision of vocational guidance services socio economic levels The participants of the research are 995 high school students attending 13 high schools six Anatolian high schools and seven General high schools in Malatya city center during 2006 2007 school year 337 of the participants are from Anatolian high schools 157 girls 180 boys and 658 are from General high schools 397 girls and 261 boys ?Vocational Maturity Scale? developed by Kuzgun and Bacanlı 2005 was used as the medium of this research to measure the vocational maturity levels of the students Personal information about the students was collected using ?Students Personal Information Form? The data were analyzed with Independent Samples t Test One Way ANOVA and Tukey Test using SPSS software program In testing the significance of the differences between means significance was calculated as p

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