Student Perceptions of the Development of Work Readiness in Australian Undergraduate Programs

Jackson, Denise

doi:10.1353/csd.2019.0020

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“…The ability to understand and describe skills that students learn during their tertiary education is growing in importance particularly in Australia with the adoption of the Bologna Process, which is intended to enable Australian award graduates greater international portability between European and Oceania nations ( Jackson, 2019 ; Department of Education Skills and Employment, 2021 ). Fuelling this debate are calls from the industry base to better understand the skills imbued to graduates through tertiary programs with a recent review by Prikshat et al (2020) reporting significant perceived deficits in Australian graduates understanding, which is steadily increasing in prevalence.…”

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“…1 Similarly, disciplines themselves are required to respond to requirements of the professions they train for to ensure they maintain fidelity as well as relativity ( Prikshat et al, 2020 ). Whilst the discipline of psychology is well known for the transferrable skills that it imparts on students, and which contribute to their overall employability, the extent to which specific and non-transferrable skills are attained in psychology education has not yet been explored, particularly in an Australian context (see Jackson, 2019 ). This paper will focus on the discipline specific skills of psychology.…”

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Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

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Supporting students to develop transferable skills and gain employment is a vital function of Universities in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A key area is work readiness, which has steadily grown in importance over the last 2 decades as tertiary institutions increasingly aim to produce graduates who perceive and are perceived as work ready. However, a large majority of graduates report a lack of skills and confidence needed for the effective transition from study to work. This may be particularly problematic for disciplines that impart both discipline-specific and transferrable skills, such as psychology. The aim of this paper is to addresses the concept of work readiness within Australian psychological training and explores the need to shed light on and integrate work readiness within the pedagogy of psychology within Australia. Specifically, this paper calls for a review of work readiness skills developed in psychological courses to ensure industry needs are met. Beyond such a review, it is suggested that tertiary centres need to facilitate students in capturing and reflecting upon the transferable skills that they develop; and build assessments that allow students to demonstrate transferable skills in a meaningful way. Further, this paper proposes that work readiness skills be routinely mapped onto graduate attributes and course learning outcomes to be readily available by students so as to increase students’ potential to articulate their learnt work readiness skills once in the workplace.

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Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

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“…Masole and van Dyk (2016) conduct an exploratory study of the factors affecting work readiness in undergraduate and postgraduate social science students. There are also qualitative and quantitative studies on the effectiveness of Bachelor degree programs provided by Australian universities to develop work readiness for students (Borg et al, 2017;Jackson, 2019).…”

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Development of Indonesian Work Readiness Scale on Fresh Graduate in Indonesia

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Fresh graduates need to have work readiness as one of the essential attributes. Work readiness is a condition when fresh graduates ready to succeed in the working world. In Indonesia, studies explaining the measurement scale of work readiness are still limited. This study aims to develop a work readiness scale for undergraduates, which is beneficial for companies, universities, and fresh graduates. The research sample consists of 118 fresh graduates, with no prior work experiences. After several examinations, the scale contains 49 items. As a result, the construct validity test using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) shows that the developed instrument can measure the work readiness construct. The results of the reliability test using Cronbach's alpha coefficient is .961. This number means that the developed instrument is reliable. The analysis results show that the developed work readiness scale has good validity and reliability.

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“…Students tend to be less positive than in the past about the effectiveness of degree programs for helping them prepare for the workforce [5]. With competency-based curriculum designs aiming for practical fulfillment, the learning objectives include acquiring comprehensive solutions for the future of the workplace [6].…”

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Understanding Gender Differences in Students’ Perceptions of Competency Certification for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education

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This study of 1780 college students in Korea explored gender differences in perceptions of competency certification programs in order to enhance sustainability in higher education. Structural equation modeling explained the optimal validity of the two-factor structure of perceptions between female and male students, and the structural relations between the two factors of competency were invariant across gender groups. A significant difference in latent means was found as well. The findings suggest that, for sustainable development, universities should develop systematic competency certification policies to accommodate students’ needs, as well as those of society, and help bridge the gender gap in the job market.

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Student Perceptions of the Development of Work Readiness in Australian Undergraduate Programs

Cited by 31 publications

References 55 publications

Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

Development of Indonesian Work Readiness Scale on Fresh Graduate in Indonesia

Understanding Gender Differences in Students’ Perceptions of Competency Certification for Enhancing Sustainability in Higher Education

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