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Burger Flipping or Brain Surgery?
The Role of Career Development in a College Success
Course
Burger Flipping or Brain Surgery?
The Role of Career Development in a College Success
Course
Marsha Fralick and
Barbara Eckenfels
Marsha Fralick and
Barbara Eckenfels

Overview
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Research on benefits of career
development
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Improving retention
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Increased earnings
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Essential components of a career
development program
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Career development at Lone Star
Montgomery

College Success:
A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition
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The successful
student had a
definite goal or
college major.
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Based on this
research, a career
development
component was
added to our
college success
course.

Noteworthy Results
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Implementing CollegeScope
on college campuses has
resulted in a
26% increase
in persistence rates!
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87% of students had chosen a
major by the end of the course
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62% of students reported more
confidence in their academic skills
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88% of students rated the course
as good or very good

Benefits of Career Development
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Folsom and Reardon examined research
on career development from 1920-2003
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Based on 17,600 students

Obvious Benefits
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Helps students choose a major and
career
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Increases knowledge of career
information
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Helps students with decision-making
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Students like taking these courses

Career Development Increases:
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Internal locus of control
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Self-knowledge
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Cognitive development
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Retention
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Graduation rates!

Graduation Rates
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4 Year colleges
On average, only 40% graduate in 6 years
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Community colleges
On average, only 20% graduate in 3 years

Value of a College Education
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A person with a bachelor’s degree earns
almost twice as much as a high school
graduate.

Critical Elements of Career Development
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Career
assessments with
individual
interpretation and
feedback
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Current and
reliable career info
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Written exercises
to engage students

Critical Element: The Assessments

Career Assessments
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Do What You Are
Personality assessment
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MI Advantage
Multiple intelligences assessment
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Integrated into the interactive online
textbook, CollegeScope
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Materials personalized for each student
based on personality type, learning style
and multiple intelligences

Do What You Are
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Valid
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Reliable
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Based on college scenarios that are easy
to read and understand
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Personality types (I-E, S-N, T-F, J-P)

MI Advantage
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Based on Howard Gardner’s theory of
multiple intelligences
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Definition: The human ability to solve