Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major Page: 55
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and interests, since the only criterion used was graduation
from college with a major pertinent to the chosen vocation.
Fryer (10) expressed little faith in the permanence of
students* expressions of vocational choice. He stressed the
students * need for experience in the working field or
entering into training for the specific job before lending
confidence to verbal expressions of interest. He found that
17 per cent of college students changed majors before their
sophomore year and that during the first three years of
college 71 per cent of the college students changed majors.
In a study of 101 college men over a five-year period,
Dyer (8) found that 32 had selected a vocation before
entering high school and that only 10 per cent of these 32
had changed their vocational choice during the five years
following. Of those who had selected a vocation after
entering high school, 75 per cent remained unchanged five
years later. Many students entered college before choosing
a vocation, and of these choices 32 per cent were changed
within the five-year period of the study.
Dyer had students list four vocational possibilities in
order of preference. Eighty-two of the 101 college men
entered the field which they listed as their first choice;
nine students entered the field they listed as their second
choice; and six students entered vocations which were not
listed among their four choices. Dyer concluded that there
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Patrick, Jerry Heard, 1933-. Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major, dissertation, January 1965; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164200/m1/59/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .