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Effectiveness of the GATB and Counseling Combined: Reducing Vocational Training Dropout Rates
Author(s) -
SEREDNESKY GEORGE E.,
CAHILL LORINE,
ENGELHART CHARLES I.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1974.tb00322.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , vocational education , dropout (neural networks) , psychology , career counseling , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , applied psychology , pedagogy , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , machine learning
Seventy‐three male vocational trainees, aged 16 to 22 years, were assigned to one of two groups. The 36 trainees in Group 1 were assigned to a particular vocational course consistent with their GATB profiles and received 3 or more counseling sessions. The 37 trainees in Group 2 received neither prescreening nor counseling sessions but were assigned to their courses because of personal interest and in order to fill vacancies. A phi coefficient of .69, significant at the .01 level, between the combination preparation procedures (prescreening and counseling) and graduation from vocational course was obtained. Further analysis suggests that the combination of counseling and prescreening may reduce dropout rate to a greater extent than prescreening alone.