Career guidance and student success in Dutch higher vocational education

Figures & data

Table 1. Distribution of first-year career guidance grade points taken by faculty, cohort 2008.

Faculty	Grade point	Frequency	Percent
	6	22	96
Built Environment & Transport	7	1	4
	Total	23	100
	1	1	1
Business & Economics	6	213	45
	7	155	33
	8	100	20
	10	1	1
	Total	470	100
	6	164	99
Health Care	8	1	1
	Total	165	100
	4	1	1
Information Sciences	5	6	5
	6	16	12
	7	63	49
	8	40	31
	9	2	2
	Total	128	100
	6	219	90
Management & Law	7	21	9
	8	4	1
	Total	244	100
	6	5	2
Media	7	19	8
	8	225	90
	Total	249	100
	4	18	4
Social Work	6	156	32
	7	206	42
	8	101	20
	9	10	2
	Total	491	100

Table 2. Summary of linear regression analysis for variables predicting first-year student success of Windesheim UAS, cohort 2008 (N = 1317).

Predictor	B	SE B	β
First grade point	1.39	0.19	.24***
Career guidance grade point	1.64	0.31	.17***
Preliminary education	1.20	0.37	.10**
Constant	25.05	2.53

Note: R² = .12; **p < .01. ***p < .001.

Table 3. Correlations between student success and career guidance grade point, taken per faculty by the proportion of first-year class and individual career guidance, cohort 2008.

Faculty	CCG	ICG	CCG/ICG	Correlation
Social Work	1620	90	18.00	.177**
Business & Economics	840	45	18.67	.228**
Information Sciences	1845	30	61.50	.449**

Note: CCG = yearly amount of class career guidance in minutes; ICG = yearly amount of individual career guidance in minutes. **p < .01 (two-tailed).

Table 4. Descriptive statistics on first-year student success of Windesheim UAS.

Cohort	M	SD	N
2004	39.37	13.50	1942
2005	38.16	13.62	2089
2007	45.23	15.52	1510
2008	47.72	15.31	2267
Total	42.60	15.05	7808

Table 5. Descriptive statistics on first-year student success taken by faculty.

Faculty	Cohort	M	SD	N
Social Work	2004	43.06	14.15	469
	2005	41.18	15.11	470
	2007	50.53	13.76	214
	2008	54.10	11.01	517
	Total	46.91	14.60	1670
Business & Economics	2004	39.06	13.20	506
	2005	38.25	13.67	570
	2007	40.88	17.43	705
	2008	44.78	16.38	659
	Total	40.94	15.69	2440
Information Sciences	2004	36.15	10.44	185
	2005	35.10	10.01	152
	2007	53.68	9.31	69
	2008	53.49	8.42	132
	Total	42.36	13.00	538

Table 6. Overview of first-year students by level of preliminary education.

			Level of preliminary education
			MBO	HAVO	VWO	Other	All
Cohort	2004	Number	476	547	76	67	1166
		%	41	47	6	6	100
	2005	Number	478	564	80	79	1201
		%	40	47	7	6	100
	2007	Number	581	767	71	78	1497
		%	39	51	5	5	100
	2008	Number	606	919	93	59	1677
		%	36	55	5	4	100
Total		Number	2141	2,797	320	283	5541
		%	39	50	6	5	100

Note. MBO = secondary vocational education; HAVO = higher general secondary education; VWO = pre-university education.

Table 7. Descriptive statistics on first grade points of first-year students of Windesheim UAS.

	Cohort	M	SD	N
Withdrawals	2004	6.36	0.72	105
	2005	6.38	0.72	100
	2007	6.29	1.28	91
	2008	6.11	1.39	16
	Total	6.33	0.95	312
Persisters	2004	6.46	0.74	1030
	2005	6.52	0.88	1075
	2007	6.81	1.00	1386
	2008	7.05	1.38	947
	Total	6.71	1.04	4438
Total	2004	6.45	0.74	1135
	2005	6.51	0.87	1175
	2007	6.78	1.03	1477
	2008	7.03	1.38	963
	Total	6.69	1.04	4750