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Professional paper

Vocational intentions and some characteristics of students determined in the course of their development

Jasmina Radojčić
Milan Čapalija
Ivan Sobota



Abstract

The paper is a review of a longitudinal follow-up of elementary school pupils in the area of Križevci who were tested by the Kettwig Test of Maturity upon enrollment to the first grade. The test was not eliminatory.

The study was continued by investigating vocational intentions of these same pupils in the eighth grade and by application of the Problem-solving Test and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.

The obtained results show that pupils from the city primarily intended to enrol in secondary grammar schools and technical schools whereas those from the country intended to enrol in trade and industrial schools, and that success in elementary school determines the enrollment in secondary school

The pupils with better scores on Problem-solving Test mostly chose grammar school.

Kettwig test of maturity for school detected the most potentially successful pupils from the very start.

Keywords

Vocational intentions; Kettwig Test; Problem-solving Test; Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

Hrčak ID:

3190

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/3190

Publication date:

15.12.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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