Year 9 Options Choices

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Year 9 Options Choices

• What influences students choices?
• How effective is Careers Education Guidance?

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The Survey

• Y10 students mid-December to end February.
• Online or paper based.
• Administered by teachers.
• Completed by 5735 students 62 of total Y10
  cohort

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Results

• 76 expect 5 A-C (actual in 200655)
• Gender M 48.3 / F 51.7
• Ethnicity White British 94
• Learning difficulty 6
• Disability 2

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Reasons for Subject Choices -
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Who influenced choices?
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Barriers to Choice
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Evaluation of CEG in Year 9
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How CEG helped in Year 9
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What information is needed by students?
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Best ways to provide options info.
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How far would you travel?
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Summary

• Main criteria for choice are
• Doing well at subjects 73
• Interesting/enjoyable 65
• Relevance to career choice 51
• Main influences
• Family 57
• None own decision 32

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• 70 found CEG in Year 9 helpful, but many of them
  found it limited
• Main things required from CEG
• Content of the subject lessons 81
• Future career/course implications 70
• Preferred methods
• Options evening 60
• Leaflets/booklets 56
• Talks/Assembly 49

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Travel to Study

• 76 of students will travel up to 30 mins each
  way to get preferred subjects/courses.

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Recommendations

• Ensure that options information concentrates on
  the content of the subject and what it could lead
  to.
• Families are the major influence so should be
  fully informed and involved.
• Many effective methods but options evenings with
  parents are the most effective way of assisting
  Y9 options choices.