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Bedel, Emine Ferda – Online Submission, 2008
The main purpose of this study was to examine early childhood education teachers' attitudes toward teaching, and their relationship to internal-external locus of control and sociotropy and autonomy orientations. The participants in this study were limited to 180 undergraduate students enrolled in early childhood education in three different…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Locus of Control, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Morris, Marian; Rutt, Simon – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
This study aimed to identify the pathways, intentions and relevant perceptions of (non-UK) European Union (EU) students entering English higher education. It sought to identify why students wished to obtain an English HE qualification, their attitudes towards the uptake and repayment of tuition fee loans and their future career plans. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduation, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Isaac, Sherin K. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Introduced by Jonathan Bowlby in the early 1960s, attachment theory seeks to explain an individual's depth of bonding with others throughout one's life. Attachment styles can affect family life, life interactions, career choices, friendships, relationships, marriage, and parenting (Turner, 2005). Attachment theory is composed of four different…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Life Satisfaction, Family Relationship, Acculturation
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Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France suggesting that workers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Career Choice
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Howard, Jocelyn – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
As New Zealand has become increasingly pluralistic, the teaching profession has become progressively less reflective of the wider population. This paper reviews the literature on impediments to teaching for minority students, and reports on a case study exploring factors that deter Asian New Zealanders from pursuing teaching as a career. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Foreign Countries
Kennedy, Marnie; Haines; Ben – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
Course completion and student satisfaction is likely to be influenced by how realistic the expectations of students are when they enrol. This report explores the idea that students' expectations would be more realistic if students have well developed career management competencies. Appended are: (1) Participant Information and Interview Protocol;…
Descriptors: Careers, Information Needs, Student Attitudes, Expectation
Haines, Ben; Straw, Suzanne – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
Future Blogs was developed through collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry and The Brightside Trust. It is an innovative e-mentoring scheme that links pupils studying chemistry with mentors from universities or industry and is based on the Bright Journals e-mentoring programme (an e-mentoring scheme targeted at 14-18 year olds…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Mentors, Electronic Publishing, Educational Research
National Academies Press, 2008
What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master's degree level? How do master's level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master's programs meet or support educational and career goals? "Science Professionals: Master's Education for a Competitive World" examines the answers to…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Public Agencies, Higher Education, Natural Sciences
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Craig, Annemieke; Lang, Catherine; Fisher, Julie – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008
The first documented day-long program to encourage girls to consider computing as a career was held in 1987 in the U.K. Over the last 20 years these one-day events, labeled "Girls into Computing" days, have been conducted by academics and professionals to foster female-student interest in information technology (IT) degrees and careers.…
Descriptors: Females, Student Interests, Computers, Information Technology
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Lent, Robert W.; Sheu, Hung-Bin; Singley, Daniel; Schmidt, Janet A.; Schmidt, Linda C.; Gloster, Clay S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
We examined the nature of the temporal relations among the core person variables in the social cognitive model of academic and career choice [Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance [Monograph]. "Journal of Vocational Behavior," 45,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Choice, Interests, Engineering Education
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Baker, Bruce D.; Wolf-Wendel, Lisa; Twombly, Susan – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This study examines the factors that predict who among those receiving educational administration doctorates is most likely to become a faculty member. Research Design: The study uses 10 years of data on all doctoral recipients from programs in educational administration gathered from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (1990 to 2000).…
Descriptors: Research Design, Career Choice, Research Universities, Faculty
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Kenny, Maureen E.; Gualdron, Leyla; Scanlon, David; Sparks, Elizabeth; Blustein, David L.; Jernigan, Maryam – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
This study presents the educational and career goals and perceptions of supports and barriers related to these goals as described in semistructured interviews of 16 students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds attending 9th grade at an urban public high school in a large Northeastern city. Using consensual qualitative research (CQR)…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Access to Education
Kirkpatrick, Megan E.; Droessler, Christopher L. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2007
Preparing every student to make knowledgeable career choices through academic rigor and work-based learning experiences requires a systematic, comprehensive and community-wide effort. Schools cannot truly prepare their students for productive and rewarding careers in an academic vacuum. Engaging business and community leaders, who may someday hire…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Business, Partnerships in Education, Volunteers
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Millar, Rob; Shevlin, Mark – Journal of Career Development, 2007
This article describes the development and psychometric assessment of a multidimensional, domain-specific Career Locus of Control Scale (CLOC) designed for use with adolescent school pupils engaged in the career development and decision-making process. A 47-item version was administered to 743 school pupils, age 15 or 16 years evenly split between…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Allen, Kenneth L.; Gabriel, Diana M. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2007
As a method to deal with the growing faculty shortage in dental education, and to encourage interest in careers in teaching, NYUCD instituted a Teaching Assistant program where third-year students acted as teaching assistants in the first-year preclinical program. Students applied and were selected, based on their academic record, to participate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Assistants, Peer Teaching, Dentistry
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