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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This paper calls attention to the seeming lack of traits and characteristics that need describe vocationally mature youths among secondary school students at the terminal points of the secondary school level of education, that is, JSS3 and SSS3.Using a randomly selected sample of 480 secondary school students from Ekiti state of Nigeria, the authors drew data with a validated set of questionnaires on the status and level of their vocational maturity. Data revealed that more than half of the sample are low on the maturity status while another considerable percentage are just barely mature, displaying traits of not having a specific job/vocation in mind, not spending time to think through possible employment in the society, never consulting with adults on the demands of the world of work among other immature traits. Possible school activities and the needed governmental policy to improve the status of the youths' vocational maturity status were suggested as a conclusion |
| Keywords: enhancing, vocational maturity, status, Nigerian, secondary school students. |
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