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Cavallo, Sara E.; Cruz, Laura E.; Kim, Jamie; Brua, Chas – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how the phenomenon of academic professional development looks through the eyes of graduate students navigating the increasing complexity of postgraduate careers. This study pays particular attention to how current students navigate the interplay between their beliefs, intentions and behaviors when…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Professional Development, Career Choice, Career Development
Rebecca Ann Heneise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is high demand and a short supply of bilingual teachers currently in the State of California. Through qualitative interviews of novice bilingual teachers, this study aims to understand the characteristics of novice bilingual teachers and the ways in which these teachers were motivated to become bilingual educators and how they feel prepared…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
Ashli Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research aims to develop an innovative agricultural program that promotes agriculture literacy among children in urban neighborhoods, fostering self-sufficiency and cultivating future agricultural leaders. While current agriculture secondary education programs in the United States are effective, there is a need for a revised curriculum that…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Experiential Learning, Urban Schools, Food
Kristin M. Pope – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to understand the essence of calling development in emerging adults enrolled at university through an interpretative phenomenological analysis of nine semistructured interviews at a small mid-western public university. The conclusions of the study suggest the essence of calling development for this population is the process of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, College Students, Adult Students, Life Satisfaction
Nemeh, Andre; Hasan, Rajibul; Hazir, Öncü – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
Project management (PM) career choice is important as millions of new projects will need skilled and motivated project managers. Therefore, the younger generation must be motivated to acquire the necessary skills to deal with project complexities and dynamics. In previous research, the factors that impact students' perceptions of their learning…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Student Motivation, Program Administration, Career Choice
Bechara, John P.; Shah, Priti Pradhan; Lindor, Keith – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Choosing a career pathway in medicine is a high stakes decision for both medical students and the field of medicine as a whole. While past research has examined how characteristics of the medical student or specialties influence this decision, we introduce temporal elements as novel variables influencing career selection decisions in medicine.…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Career Choice, Decision Making, Scheduling
Yuliya Frolova; Monowar Mahmood – Journal of International Education in Business, 2025
Purpose: This study explores the role of proactive decision-making in enhancing academic motivation and career calling among university students in Central Asia. It aims to investigate how proactive traits and cognitive skills influence career calling and academic persistence while examining the moderating effects of demographic factors.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Motivation, Career Choice, College Students
Meera Chandran; Shamin Padalkar; Ramachan A. Shimray – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article explores the question, 'what motivates the choice of teaching as a profession?' Availability of adequate teachers, professionally qualified in institutions of higher education to meet the curricular and structural challenges of school education, is a critical policy concern. This article is based on a study of 54 student-teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Gender Differences
Behiye Dagdeviren Ertas; Fulya Baris Pekmezci – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Scholarly research on teachers' job satisfaction has recently attracted the attention of researchers. However, only few studies have focused on the factors that address teachers' job satisfaction, as to reveal whether and to what extent teachers' career motivations, especially social utility motivation, affect job satisfaction. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation
Welborn, Cliff; Bullington, Kimball; Abston, Kristie – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
This study sought to utilize Six Sigma techniques to guide the design and selection of promotional materials and strategies to attract college students to an undergraduate Supply Chain Management major. Affinity Diagramming was used to collect and summarize students' comments on what factors they considered when selecting a career. Pareto was used…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Undergraduate Students, Supply and Demand, Business Administration Education
Vogel, Morgan D. – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens American lives and disrupts daily routines, we continue to see front-line public servants step forward to battle the virus with persistence. Given the increasingly polarized COVID environment, the natural inclination is to ask: what is motivating these public servants to persevere in their work despite the…
Descriptors: Public Service Occupations, Public Service, Public Affairs Education, Role
Maphosa, Mfowabo; Doorsamy, Wesley; Paul, Babu Sena – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This article lends empirical evidence to this research area of factors influencing students' choice of and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Background: Understanding these factors is crucial as it informs recruitment and support interventions provided to students and constitutes a premise to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, Social Cognition, Majors (Students)
Yarim, Mehmet Ali; Yildirim, Isa; Akan, Durdagi – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2022
The purpose of this research is to determine the motivation factors of teacher candidates regarding the teaching profession. For this purpose, this study was designed with a cross-sectional scanning model, since the data collection process was carried out in one go. The research was designed with phenomenology, one of the qualitative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Motivation, Occupational Aspiration
Maree, Jacobus G. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
This article reviews the outcomes of five purposely selected group career construction research projects conducted in a developing country context. Thematic data analysis was done on the results of these projects to identify qualitatively the strengths and areas for development (weaknesses) of the approach followed in these projects. The findings…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Group Counseling, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Zid Mancenido – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In Paper #1, I investigate the career exploration processes of 96 recent graduates of elite higher education institutions with varying levels of interest and commitment to teaching. My aim is to understand how intrinsic motivations to teach (positive) and extrinsic concerns about teaching (negative) are developed and interact such that some…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Education, Career Choice