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Professional Preferences
(PPM)
Guidance
Department
Miguel ngel Sa 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 Department
covers 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 and
vocational guidance covers, in turn, three main areas of
interest:
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, both
prepared by the Guidance Department and published: reflection
techniques, techniques of self-knowledge, decision-making
techniques.
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Instruments and estrategies set in place
Conducting informational meetings with students, either
individually or collectively.
Stablishing contacts and coordination with other services outside
the school: other Guidance Departments, Galician Placement
Service, youth information points, university guidance centers,...
Conducting lectures and conferences as well as visiting other
educational 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 an
organised way, what the professional interests of the
students are.
It is an instrument that complements other actions to be
carried out in the field of career and vocational guidance.
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General characteristics
This questionnaire is administered to all the students in a
classroom: collective administration.
Targets students in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of
Compulsory 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-level
education
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 3
to 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 the
computerised processing
of 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 other
actions:
Before its administration: it is recommended to perform
some activity related to studentsself-knowledge.
After its administration: it is advisable to conduct a personal
interview with the student in order to analise the test results and
provide more accurate guidance in his or her decision-making
process.
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Thank you
for your attention