My Draft Hypothesis on a High School Educational Topic

NAME Adigson ASSIGNMENT My Draft Hypothesis and Initial Research Questions towards a Research Proposal Subject High School Education Theme Departments/Choices of Career Context Choices of Career among the Youth in Nigeria Topic Parental Influence on Choices of Career among the Senior Students of Deen Foundation Secondary School, Ekpan Research questions • How will learners make choice of career that soothes their inclination and capability? • How best should learners’ choice of career be considered? • Are parental suggestions on their wards choice of career influential? • What should actually be the roles of parents on their wards choice of career? Hypothesis • Do parental suggestions have any influence on learners’ choice of Career or not? With a view to provide feedback to the research questions, I have had to reason along this line. Check this out! How will learners make choice of career that soothes their inclination and capability? To answer this, aptitude test or career test could be administered. Doing that the areas of the wards/learners/students interest could be easily determined. Thought, it may not conscipucuously tally with their capability. This is because many a time we tend to desire what we are not ordinarily cut for. Yet aiming high should never be discouraged. How best should learners’ choice of career be considered? Here, necessary measures to ensure perfection or at least manageability of the choices of career observed to be on the higher level in relations to the learners in question should be given paramount attention. This is because for the learners to have decided a path of learning showing him/her/them how to achieve that might not be hard to be easily followed by them to achieve their targeted path. Are parental suggestions on their wards choice of career influential? Either directly or indirectly, parental suggestions have been influential on their wards’ choices of career. As a direct influence, some of them did converse with their wards in a purposeful manner while others tailor the path of authoritarian to pass across their message to their wards. For example a parent may suggest to her daughter…”while you were small you kept on reminding us that you are going to be a doctor.” Indirectly, a parent doing well in a field would be emulated automatically by his boy. It is very hard to see the children of teachers and farmers choosing professions other than their parents’. What should actually be the roles of parents on their wards choice of career? Parents’ roles in choices of career of their wards cannot be overstepped. This is one of the duties to which they are saddled with. However, calculated precautions are expected to be taken so as not to over play these critical roles. They should sound objective in their approach towards the choices of career of their wards. In other words, they should be guides to what exactly their wards are cut out for while considering the moral stands of such endeavours as well as their achievability. Working research question Do parental suggestions have any influence on learners’ choice of Career or not? Here, I had to narrow down my focus. High school education is actually a broad topic to deal with. For easy management in terms of researching into parental influence on their wards future ambitions, I had to narrow down my focus to be able to figure out this research gap more easily. Though in the Nigerian context, it is further limited to the Senior Students of Deen Foundation Secondary School located in Ekpan, Delta State. *Further Editing...* I should be having some reframing on my research questions and that would actually force me to adjust my methodologies and methods of analysis. All in all, I would be going for multidisciplinary approach at researching 'Parental Guidance and their Wards' Eventual Choices of Career'. I am considering interviews/questionnaires qualitatively on one hand...records of academic performance as determinants on pluses and minuses of Parental Guidance on the other hand. I am opened to correction...Please do not hesitate to offer a helping or even a combative suggestion at any of my vituperations you observe to be unsubstantiated. Thanks.