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Direct linkHeather Wilks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study examines what influences 7th and 8th grade rural middle school students to consider a potential career trajectory. Phase One of the study includes a demographic and career cluster interest survey of 38 participants. Phase Two of the study focused on 23 of the 38 Phase One participants, who were…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Rural Schools
Rosemarie Herbert Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Dramatic fluctuations in employment trends pose a problem for young adolescents embarking on the career decision-making process. Paired with inadequate career-guidance resources, this creates a serious societal problem. This study empirically examined relationships among eighth-grade students' perceptions of relatedness, autonomy, and competence…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Decision Making, Career Choice, Adolescents
Jackson, Whitney – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Tomorrow's STEM workforce consists of today's students. While it is imperative for students to gain a wider perspective of STEM careers, there are various ways in which this can be accomplished in the classroom. Classroom STEM exposure, field trip experiences, and opportunities to interview those in STEM occupations have all proven effective but…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Careers, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
Garcia, Steve L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Perceptions of instrumentality (PI) are the connections one sees between a current activity and a future goal. With high PI, one is motivated to persist with quality effort because the current activity, even when difficult, is perceived as aligned with, and progress toward, the goal. Conversely, with low PI, one is motivated to relinquish effort…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Dropout Rate, Career Choice, Academic Achievement
Deacon, Mary M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite initiatives to increase and broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, women remain underrepresented in STEM. While U.S. girls and women perform as well as, if not better, than boys and men in math, research results indicate that there are significant declines in girls' math self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Sex Stereotypes, Females, Self Efficacy
Shemwell, Bridget Duncan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Kuder Career Planning System administrative database results for the past five years have shown a low interest in the manufacturing career cluster among Arkansas students. The low student interest and shortage of high-skilled labor in manufacturing prompted the Arkansas Department of Career Education to invest grant funds in a new…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Career Planning, Intervention
