Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study and compare the effects of the use of The Self-Directed Search by oneself and with the assistance of a guidance teacher on the promotion of the vocational information seeking behavior of Mathayom Suksa four students. The subjects were 108 male and female students during the academic year of 1988, selected by stratified random sampling from Santirajvitayalai School. They were also randomly assigned into two treatment groups; experimental group I and experimental group II; and a control group of equal size. The students in experimental group I used The Self-Directed Search by themselves, and the students in experimental group II used The Self-Directed Search with the assistance of a guidance teacher, while the students in the control group received no treatment. Vocational information seeking behaviors were assessed by questionnaire, developed by the researcher and was administered before treatment and 3 weeks after treatment. One-way Analysis of Variance and t-test were utilized for data analysis. It was found that: (1) there is no significant difference in vocational information seeking behavior between the students in experimental group I who took The Self-Directed Search by themselves and students in experim[e]ntal group II who took The Self-Directed Search with the assistance of a guidance teacher, on both frequency and variety of vocational information seeking behaviors. (2) there is no significant difference in vocational information seeking behavior among the students in experimental group I who took The Self-Directed Search by themselves and the students in experimental group II who took The Self-Directed Search with the assistance of a guidance teacher and the students in control group, on both frequency and variety of vocational information seeking behaviors.