Valoración de la orientación profesional en la enseñanza secundaria postobligatoria

Abstract

Professional guidance is increasingly a key element in lifelong learning. The way in which such orientation and success will be achieved will largely depend on the organizational models adopted by the different institutions to make the intervention more effective. This paper aims to know clearly the opinion of the Galician students about the professional guidance received in post-compulsory secondary education and also the importance attributed to it. The research method was descriptive and exploratory by means of a survey of a representative sample of 2408 first year university students. The results show a significant distance between the guidance received and its importance, with the scores being significantly higher in all variables. It can be concluded that guidance is a factor of great importance and that students are not satisfied with the work done in post-compulsory secondary schools. It requires more individual and group activity, as well as intervention with conventional and technological resources. The underutilization of the latter is noteworthy in our study.