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STEM III – St. Cecilia April 23, 2020
Module 15 Activity: Research Report Analysis

 What is the research all about and what is the purpose of the research?

“How Do Students Make Future Career Choices? A Case Study in Vietnam,” based on the
scientific report presented by Tong Thi Son and Quach Tuan Kiet (2019) for the study itself,
sought to delineate certain aspects on one of the notable dilemmas among adolescents around the
globe: responsive pressure on occupational options and selection. Particularly, the researchers
focused on students’: (1) concepts about choosing future jobs; (2) reasons for making future
career choices; and (3) trends towards future vocational options.

Tong and Quach (2019) [1] utilized a two-stage cluster sampling method – randomly
selecting a naturally-occurring cluster then haphazardly choosing samples from within [3] – to
employ a self-arranged bilingual questionnaire for the cross-sectional study. One hundred (100)
12th grade students from Le Quy Don – Dong Da High School were chosen as participants.

Supported by Cavanaugh, and Gardner and Jeweler (as cited in Tong and Quach, 2019), the
researchers suggested that “students often regarded vocational choices as monumental and
irreversible decisions” for they are “reflection of [an] individuals' personality,” [4] with 71% of
the subjects considered occupational choices as an essential facet. Findings also reveal that above
two-thirds (68%) of the statistic make future career choices to have a clear career orientation,
backed by the regard that “orientation will help people set clear goals for their future” [4].
Finally, findings show that an even interval data [2] is present within the students’ selection of
job categories viz: Social Work, 28%; Applied Science and Technology, 25%; Economics and
Finance Work, 16%; Military and Police Work (13%); Governmental and Management Work
(10%); and Artistic Work (8%). Such results are strengthened by Meinart, Pardeck and
Kreuger’s indication that “social occupations have become the champion of the diversity in all
other career fields,” (as cited in Tong and Quach, 2019). On a side note, the researchers also
found that majority of the students (92%) believe in the persistence of gender-related
discrepancies on job employment to date.

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It has been with due and thorough analysis that Tong and Quach (2019) have closed out on
the conclusion: “vocational choices [are] an important long-term process for every student, thus
clear orientation would help students better prepared for ever-changing job markets in the
future.”

In comprehensive evaluation of the study and its research report in question, it is fair to say
that Tong and Quach’s main purpose for overseeing such issue could be divided in two: (1)
inferring the percentage of teenagers who consider career-related choices as a significant
futuristic role, and (2) eliciting the youth’s will in making substantial and consequential life
decisions.

 Bibliography

[1] Duffy, D. (2009, September 29). Indexing Vietnamese Names. Retrieved April 24, 2020,
from Vietnam Studies Group:
https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/vietnamstudiesgroup/discussion-networking/vsg-
discussion-list-archives/vsg-discussion-2009/indexing
[2] Peters, C. (2015, June 25). How to Design and Analyze a Survey. Retrieved April 24,
2020, from Zapier: https://zapier.com/learn/forms-surveys/design-analyze-survey/
[3] Singh, S. (2018, July 26). Sampling Techniques. Retrieved April 24, 2020, from towards
data science: https://towardsdatascience.com/sampling-techniques-a4e34111d808
[4] Tong, T. S., & Quach, T. K. (2019, July - September). How Do Students Make Future
Career Choices? A Case Study in Vietnam. Le Quy Don – Dong Da High School, Hanoi,
Vietnam. Retrieved April 23, 2020

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