Website Based Training for Choosing University Major to Reduce Career Indecision in High School Students

Abstract

More than two million high school students graduate per year in Indonesia. majority of them struggle to enter their favorite departments in universities with various options of majors. But, a number of students have the career decision difficulties to choose the relevant major. This study is aimed at knowing the effects of delivering the website based training for choosing major in university for high school students. A number of 102 high school students participated in this training (male, female). The study was run using quantitative quasi experiment method with pretest-posttest design. The measurement was done using Career Indecision Scale adapted from Gati, Krausz & Osipow, 1996 (r = 0.875; p<0.05). The study was carried out with quasi-experimental model with pretest-posttest design. Results indicate that the indecision of participants about their career decreased.