Volume : 6, Issue : 8, August - 2017

ESSENTIAL OF SELF-EFFICACY IN CAREER DECISION MAKING

S. Poovizhi, Dr. K. Chandrasekar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The present study was aimed to study the creative thinking ability of D.El.Ed students with respect to their gender, residence, locality and parent&rsquo;s occupation. An intact sample of 739 students from 15 teacher training institutes was selected. The study made use of the</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> self made tool for Creative thinking ability.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> t-test and F-test were used to analyse the data. The results&nbsp; revealed that the female students were better than the male D.El.Ed students in their Flexibility of creative thinking ability. Urban students are better than the rural D.El.Ed students in their elaboration of creative thinking ability. The findings suggest that creative thinking ability has more to do with beliefs than practices. The strong belief in a particular teaching perspective, whether product or process oriented, may have a negative impact on creative thinking ability and that developing reading, writing and self-expression abilities is likely to help develop the ability of elaboration.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>