Analysis of Children’s Professional Orientation at Senior Primary Grade

Abstract The article summarizes fundamental facts of a part of the research project that was focused on pupils' professional orientation and on technical and practical competence of pupils at senior primary grade of the schools within Moravian-Silesian County. The research was executed by means of on-line data collection provided by Methodical and Evaluation Centre o.p.s. in 2008 and 2009. The data analysis of the results of General Interest Structure Test (AIST-R test), which deals with the professional orientation, demonstrated an interesting structure of pupils' professional orientation. The pupils from 6th up to 8th classes were examined. We obtained preferences of the interests structure, the most sought combinations of career selection, aspiration levels of reached education and all that for about 1,600 pupils. This internationally proven test in a computational version was used continually with a newly constructed achievement method for finding out aptitudes linked with technical and practical competence (TTPP - Test of Technical and Practical Competence). The results that foreshadow possibilities of pupils' professional aiming might become a useful tool of their motivation then.