Graduates should not discover they do not want a career that their education …show more content…
These same tools may also help predict whether or not the career the student is studying for is right for them. The variables in this study include student knowledge, skill, self-efficacy, motivation, deep learning, and commitment to career choice. The tool being studied is simulation. Since the setting is taking place in higher education academic institutions specific to students studying aviation and air traffic control, the research is specifically analyzing student air traffic control knowledge, air traffic control skill, academic self-efficacy, student motivation, deep learning, and commitment to an air traffic control career before and after they experience an air traffic control (ATC) simulation laboratory …show more content…
As students see the evidence of their academic success during the exercises given in the ATC simulation lab, their sense of academic self-efficacy may increase. Their increased sense of academic self-efficacy may lead them to have the motivation to take on such a challenging endeavor. Zimmerman (1995) reported Hacket and Betz’s (1989) findings that perceived self-efficacy is positively correlated with students ' choice of majors in college, the success in course work, and perseverance in the field of