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Professional Preferences

(PPM)

Guidance

Department

Miguel Ángel Saá Ramos – Guidance Department Head(November 2012)

A sample questionnaire of professional interests

and preferences

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Areas of work

� The work to be performed by the Guidance Departmentcovers four main areas of work:

• School organisation

• Personal and social education

• Attention to diversity

• And... career and vocational guidance

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Areas of interest

� The work performed within the scope of the career andvocational guidance covers, in turn, three main areas ofinterest:

• Students’ self-knowledge (skills, values, personality,interests…).

• Academic and vocational information.

• And decision-making.

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Instruments and strategies set in place

� Different instruments and strategies are used to work on

the areas of interest mentioned above:

• Use of: questionnaires, group techniques, interviews,observation, review of information, guidance guides.

• Implementation and monitoring of different programmes, bothprepared by the Guidance Department and published: reflectiontechniques, techniques of self-knowledge, decision-makingtechniques.

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Instruments and estrategies set in place

• Conducting informational meetings with students, eitherindividually or collectively.

• Stablishing contacts and coordination with other services outsidethe school: other Guidance Departments, Galician PlacementService, youth information points, university guidance centers,...

• Conducting lectures and conferences as well as visiting othereducational centers.

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PPM

� One of the instruments

used when working the

decision-making is the

questionnaire called

Professional

preferences – M

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Purpose

� The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify, in anorganised way, what the professional interests of thestudents are.

� It is an instrument that complements other actions to becarried out in the field of career and vocational guidance.

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General characteristics

� This questionnaire is administered to all the students in aclassroom: collective administration.

� Targets students in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year ofCompulsory Secondary Education (ESO).

� Implementation time: 45 minutes.

� It can be corrected by the students themselves.

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General characteristics

� The questionnaire has two versions:

• PPM – B: aimed at students who want to pursue A-leveleducation

• PPM – FP: aimed at students interested in Vocational Training

� It is a test comprising 39 comparison groups

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General Characteristics

� In each group four activities are offered to compare.

� It is necessary to score each group with the scale 0-1-2-3,where 0 is the score given to the least liked activity and 3to the most liked.

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Materials

� Technical manual

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Materials

� Questionnaire PPM – B

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Materials

� Questionnaire PPM – FP

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Materials

� Answer sheet:

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Materials

� CD-ROM for thecomputerised processingof results

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Materials

� Score sheet (individual profile):

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Examples

� Answer sheet PPM – B:

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Examples

� Individual profile PPM – B:

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Examples

� Answer sheet PPM – FP:

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Examples

� Individual profile PPM – FP:

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Advantages

� It is quick and easy to implement

� It is also quick and easy to correct

� The test results are easy to interpret

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Disadvantages

� The test needs to be complemented with otheractions:

• Before its administration: it is recommended to performsome activity related to students’self-knowledge.

• After its administration: it is advisable to conduct a personalinterview with the student in order to analise the test results andprovide more accurate guidance in his or her decision-makingprocess.

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Thank you

for your attention