Construction of Student's Career Maturity Scale
Abstract
To be able to choose and plan the right career, is needed including knowing one's own condition, knowledge about work, the ability to choose a job, and the ability to plan steps towards the expected career. This study aims to develop measuring instruments that can measure career maturity in students. The Student Career Maturity Scale consists of 40 items that measure 6 aspects of Student Career Maturity. A total of 325 students participated in this study. The validity of the measuring instrument was tested by content validity with 4 raters. Through reliability analysis with Cronbach's Alpha formula, this measuring instrument has a reliability coefficient of 0.919 and a Standard Error of Measurement of 0.137. These results indicate that this Student’s career maturity scale can be used to measure career maturity in college students because this measurement tool is proven to have good psychometric properties.
Keywords:Â Career Maturity ; Measuring Tool; Students