The Effects of Expectancy and Heuristics on the Major Selection Process

[...]even this author cautions against taking strictly financial data to illustrate the field of study selection process: "The link between education and earnings is notoriously fraught, with cause and effect often difficult to disentangle." To the best of the authors' knowledge and w...

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Published inJournal of higher education theory and practice Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 223 - 235
Main Authors Muriithi, Sammy, Swanson, Zane, Genchev, Stefan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published West Palm Beach North American Business Press 2021
Subjects
Academic disciplines
Beliefs
Careers
Decision making
Earnings
Gender
Heuristic
Heuristics
Higher education
Interpersonal Relationship
Library Science
Life Satisfaction
Literature Reviews
Majors (Students)
School Counselors
Secondary School Teachers
Self Efficacy
Student Attitudes
Student Behavior
Students
Success
Teacher Selection
University students
Wages & salaries
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Summary:[...]even this author cautions against taking strictly financial data to illustrate the field of study selection process: "The link between education and earnings is notoriously fraught, with cause and effect often difficult to disentangle." To the best of the authors' knowledge and with the notable exception of (Kumar & Kumar, 2013), who use the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to investigate the effect external influencers, no study has adopted the expectancy theory-heuristics perspective in an investigation of major choice. Geiger & Cooper (1996) contend that the valence model attempts to capture the perceived attractiveness, or valence, of an outcome by aggregating the attractiveness of all associated resultant outcomes. [...]according to this model, "the valence of a first-level outcome is equal to the summation of the products from all associated second-level outcome valences with the perceived belief (or instrumentality) the first-level outcome will result in the second level outcome" (Geiger & Cooper, 1996:114). where: While expectancy tends to be more objectively defined and based on particular success factors related to career choices, the decision-making process is not going to be complete if personal emotions are not accounted for
ISSN:2158-3595
2158-3595
DOI:10.33423/jhetp.v21i4.4220