DECISION-MAKING IN THE POAP FOR THE TRANSITION FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CASTILLA Y LEÓN, SPAIN (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The objective of this research is focused on studying the treatment of decision-making in the POAP, with Baccalaureate students, in public Secondary Education centers in Castilla y León, Spain. For this, an analysis of the content of the POAP of each of the centers is carried out. The research has a quantitative design and for the collection of information, the questionnaire in on-line format was used as an instrument. This was sent to a sample of 200 secondary schools and a response was obtained from 121 of all of them. The questionnaire focuses on 3 descriptors: internal factors, external factors and the decision-making process. The results show that 53% of the centers develop aspects related to the decision-making process, that 76% work on internal factors such as self-knowledge, self-completion, abilities and interests, external factors such as information from higher education treat it. 96% of the centers. The treatment of the decision-making process with the Baccalaureate students is relegated to the background, developing to a greater extent, the information of academic and professional opportunities and self-knowledge. We have been able to detect that, up to now, aspects such as the updating of the instruments used, the inclusion of non-sexist labor orientation, are not given importance, data that open up a wide range of possibilities for new proposals and future approaches.