A Career Project–Based Learning Management Affecting on Occupation Competencies for Junior High School Students

Abstract

               For this study, it was the research on a career project-based learning management affecting on occupation competencies for junior high school. The objective of this research was to enrich occupation competencies for grade 8 students through a career project-based approach titled “Plantation for Local Sales.” This research was conducted as a quasi-experimental research. The sample consisted of 37 grade 8 students studying career and technology strand, in the first semester of the academic Year 2019, at Saraburiwitthayakhom school in Saraburi province. The study was selected by using multi-stage random sampling. The research instruments were 1) lesson plans with career project-based activities, 2) an occupation competency assessment form. The statistics for data analysis were mean, standard deviation, t-test, and repeated measure ANOVA.The findings indicated that: The grade 8 students learned through the career project-based approach on the specified topic had highly provided a significant improvement at 0.5 level on 5 out of 6 indicators of the career and technology strand.