1 Professional Preferences (PPM) Guidance Department Miguel Ángel Saá Ramos – Guidance Department Head (November 2012) A sample questionnaire of professional interests and preferences
Jul 12, 2015
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Professional Preferences (PPM)
Guidance
Department
Miguel Ángel Saá Ramos – Guidance Department Head(November 2012)
A sample questionnaire of professional interests and preferences
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Areas of work
The work to be performed by the Guidance Department covers four main areas of work:
• School organisation
• Personal and social education
• Attention to diversity
• And... career and vocational guidance
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Areas of interest
The work performed within the scope of the career and vocational guidance covers, in turn, three main areas of interest:
• Students’ self-knowledge (skills, values, personality, interests…).
• Academic and vocational information.
• And decision-making.
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Instruments and strategies set in place
Different instruments and strategies are used to work on the areas of interest mentioned above:
• Use of: questionnaires, group techniques, interviews, observation, review of information, guidance guides.
• Implementation and monitoring of different programmes, both prepared by the Guidance Department and published: reflection techniques, techniques of self-knowledge, decision-making techniques.
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Instruments and estrategies set in place
• Conducting informational meetings with students, either individually or collectively.
• Stablishing contacts and coordination with other services outside the school: other Guidance Departments, Galician Placement Service, youth information points, university guidance centers,...
• Conducting lectures and conferences as well as visiting other educational centers.
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PPM
One of the instruments used when working the decision-making is the questionnaire called Professional preferences – M
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PPMPurpose
The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify, in an organised way, what the professional interests of the students are.
It is an instrument that complements other actions to be carried out in the field of career and vocational guidance.
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PPMGeneral characteristics
This questionnaire is administered to all the students in a classroom: collective administration.
Targets students in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO).
Implementation time: 45 minutes.
It can be corrected by the students themselves.
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PPMGeneral characteristics
The questionnaire has two versions:• PPM – B: aimed at students who want to pursue A-level
education • PPM – FP: aimed at students interested in Vocational Training
It is a test comprising 39 comparison groups
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PPMGeneral Characteristics
In each group four activities are offered to compare.
It is necessary to score each group with the scale 0-1-2-3, where 0 is the score given to the least liked activity and 3 to the most liked.
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PPMMaterials
Technical manual
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PPMMaterials
Questionnaire PPM – B
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PPMMaterials
Questionnaire PPM – FP
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PPMMaterials
Answer sheet:
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PPMMaterials
CD-ROM for the computerised processing of results
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PPMMaterials
Score sheet (individual profile):
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PPMExamples
Answer sheet PPM – B:
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PPMExamples
Individual profile PPM – B:
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PPMExamples
Answer sheet PPM – FP:
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PPMExamples
Individual profile PPM – FP:
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PPMAdvantages
It is quick and easy to implement
It is also quick and easy to correct
The test results are easy to interpret
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PPMDisadvantages
The test needs to be complemented with other actions:
• Before its administration: it is recommended to perform some activity related to students’self-knowledge.
• After its administration: it is advisable to conduct a personal interview with the student in order to analise the test results and provide more accurate guidance in his or her decision-making process.
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