
REVISTA CIENTÍFICA UISRAEL
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REVISTA CIENTÍFICA UISRAEL – VOL. 11 NÚM. 1 – ENERO ABRIL 2024
and exact and agricultural sciences (10,18); there are extremely low percentages in careers related
to the arts, engineering and computing, and administrative and accounting sciences; in addition to
10.40% of students who have more than three career options according to the criteria used in this
study.
In recent years, numerous studies have been carried out in Latin America that use the CHASIDE
test to assess the interests and aptitudes of Generation Z. In Bolivia, preferences have been
found in areas such as administration and accounting, humanities, social sciences, medicine, and
health sciences (Cruz, 2021). In Colombia, interests in engineering, computing, and art have been
identied (Vélez et al., 2022). In Ecuador, interest in areas such as art, defense, and security has
stood out, as well as a 61.5% aptitude toward medical and health sciences (Solis, 2023). In other
studies, carried out in Ecuador, interests towards art and aptitudes towards medicine and health
sciences have been evidenced, and secondly, interests towards defense and security and aptitudes
towards administration and accounting sciences (Ruperti et al., 2020).
According to data from SENESCYT, the current academic offer updated as of February 20, 2022,
includes the areas of administration, agriculture, forestry, shing and veterinary medicine, arts
and humanities, natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, social sciences, business education
and law, journalism and information, education, engineering, industry and construction, health and
welfare, health and social services, and information and communication technologies; The areas
with the most signicant number of careers offered by higher education institutions are the areas
of administration, education, social sciences, commercial education and law and engineering,
industry and construction. However, according to data from the same entity, the four areas in
which the highest number of students enrolled in 2022 are registered are engineering, industry,
and construction; social sciences, journalism, information, and law; Social sciences and business
education and education (SENESCYT, s.f.).
The areas of student preference in this study and those carried out at the Latin American level
show the students’ preference for the administrative, humanistic, and health sciences areas. These
data could be in line with the personality characteristics of the students of Generation Z, such as
altruism, responsibility, a high value of the social, exibility, participation, and the need to assume
essential and positive commitments with society; however, signicant divergences can be found
in terms of student preferences with the existing academic offer and the enrollment rate at the
national level.
When proposing vocational guidance, based on the options of professional areas proposed by the
CHASIDE test, a multiplicity of emerging professions and those linked to the appearance of articial
intelligence, which has emerged in recent years, are excluded so that a vocational and professional
reductionism that could later affect the professional and occupational life of this generation and
those to come.
Figure 2 shows the results obtained from the analysis of the relationship between self-reported
interests and the CHASIDE vocational and professional guidance test results in students who
have received some guidance or vocational and professional guidance from a professional, be it a