Businesses as tools for the professional development and career planning of Vocational training Center students; the inegol Vocational training and Guidance Model

Abstract

The study was performed to identify the effects of İnegöl Vocational Education and Guidance Model, which was developed according to vocational education and career planning, on the level of information literacy, individual entrepreneurship, and creative thinking of students. This study was developed based on a pre-test-post-test single-group experimental design using quantitative techniques. The population of interest was 13 students who had enrolled in the Furniture and Decoration Department of a Vocational Education Center in the 2023-2024 academic year and were completing a course called Vocational Education at the Workplace. The Information Literacy Scale, Individual Entrepreneurship Scale and Marmara Creative Thinking Tendencies Scale were used to conduct data collection. The Information Literacy Scale, Individual Entrepreneurship Scale, and Marmara Creative Thinking Tendencies Scale were used as the instruments to collect data before and after the study of the experiment. The data distribution normality was checked prior to identifying the method of analysis. It was concluded that the Shapiro-Wilk statistic of the pretest and posttest data of the three scales exceeded.05 which meant that the three scales were all in the normality assumption. The analysis of data demonstrated that the applications that were introduced under the framework of the model enhanced the creative thinking, innovation, information literacy, and entrepreneurship abilities of students. In turn, it was noted that the İnegöl Vocational Education and Guidance Model elaborated and applied in the context of the current study proved helpful in terms of vocational skills and career planning of students.