Sitio web de orientación vocacional para estudiantes de tercer año de bachillerato con enfoque visual

Abstract

Academic dropout in university students in Ecuador is recurrent due to socioeconomic and cognitive factors and the need for self-knowledge of their own attitudes, abilities, and skills derived from inadequate management in vocational guidance. In addition, the limited use of technological tools such as educational pages or web forums restricts access to resources such as vocational tests that can influence academic performance due to poor choice of a career. Faced with this problem, it was proposed that a Vocational Guidance Website with a Visual Approach be developed for third-year high school students at the U.E P.V.M. in order to reduce dropout in higher education. This site will allow future high school graduates to access information on guidance, take vocational tests, and have interviews with young people studying different careers at the Polytechnic Higher School of Chimborazo. Descriptive research was used through interviews and surveys to collect information, which allowed the definition of the website's content and multimedia elements (images and videos). The OOHDM design methodology, focused on developing web-focused hypermedia applications, was used in five phases: requirements gathering, conceptual design, navigational design, abstract interface design, and implementation. A functional prototype of the website was developed using the Figma interface design program. It consists of 5 pages: The home page, the Career guidance page, the Interview page, the Vocational test page, and the Holland form page. It is worth highlighting the implementation of interviews as a key point of the prototype to generate empathy with users. It was concluded that the results showed that students obtained better self-knowledge of their skills and abilities according to the Holland test, guiding them towards third-level careers and reducing academic dropout.