Career choices of secondary students with special reference to gender, type of stream and parental education

Pages: 63-67
Mohammad Iqbal Mattoo (Department of Education, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India)

The study was carried out to find the career choices of students at secondary level. A sample of 200 students was drawn randomly from 12 secondary schools of district Srinagar within the age range of 16 plus. The selected sample comprised of arts and science streams. Chatterji’s Non-Language Preference Record was administered to collect the data. Besides, parental education as one of the variables was also taken into consideration. Data was subjected to statistical treatment by applying percentages and ‘t’ values. The results revealed some significant differences on the basis of gender and parental education in various career choices of the subjects under investigation.