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Smith, Emil – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Peers may both promote conformity and discourage ambitious choices when students make educational decisions. Low socioeconomic status (SES) students may be more sensitive to outside influence than high SES students when making educational decisions. Considering the case of choosing between an academic track and a vocational track in Danish…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Preferences, Decision Making, Socioeconomic Status
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Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Thomsen, Rie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
In this article we introduce key concepts from critical psychology to explore their potential when operationalised in qualitative, empirically-based analyses of career guidance and counselling. Critical psychology is particularly concerned with understanding the concrete lines of action that can support generalised human agency -- a focus that is…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Counseling, Psychology, Personal Autonomy
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Chen, Xianglei; Duprey, Michael A.; Ritchie, Nichole Smith; Caves, Lesa R.; Pratt, Daniel J.; Wilson, David H.; Brown, Frederick S.; Leu, Katherine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This First Look report presents selected findings from the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study and Student Financial Aid Records Collection (PETS-SR) of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). HSLS:09 follows a nationally representative sample of students who were ninth-graders in fall 2009 from high school into higher education…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Academic Records, Student Financial Aid
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Minina, Elena; Yanbarisova, Diana; Pavlenko, Ekaterina – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Drawing on the data provided by Russian panel study 'Trajectories in Education and Careers' (TrEC), we explore the different rationales pupils employ in deciding their education path in grade nine. Drawing on the relative risk aversion theory we show how young people's decision-making logics are aimed at class maintenance and risk management.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Risk, Track System (Education)
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Vanhalakka-Ruoho, Marjatta; Koski, Leena; Silvonen, Jussi; Tamminen, Merja – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2016
The study analyses how the educational pathways of ninth graders are constructed by practices of adolescents and their parents in families with different educational statuses. The importance of contextualising the educational transition as it occurs in daily life and socially structured family cultures is emphasised. The research question is: How…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Rolfsman, Ewa – Education Inquiry, 2020
The paper explores factors of importance for young people's choice of upper secondary education and for their future life, from a student perspective. The paper builds on data from a questionnaire study, answered by 1,414 students in grade 9 (age 15-16) in Sweden, prior to their choice of upper secondary school. In addition, data from earlier…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Makhoul, Baha – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The current study attempted to investigate the development of Arabic academic vocabulary knowledge among middle-school Arabic native speakers, taking into account the socioeconomic status of the Arab population in Israel. For this purpose, Arabic academic word list was developed, mapping the required academic words that are needed for adequate…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Socioeconomic Status
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
"Career Academies" is a dropout prevention strategy for youth considered most at risk of dropping out of high school. Students in the program take both career-related and academic courses and acquire work experience through partnerships with local employers. "Career Academies" integrate rigorous academic curricula with career…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, High School Students
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Raty, Hannu; Ruokolainen, Suvi; Kasanen, Kati – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The study set out to explore parents' experiences of their child's upper primary schooling. Academically and vocationally educated mothers and fathers (N = 326) were prompted to give positive and negative comments on their child's school years at the end of his/her 7th and 9th grade. It was found that a great majority of the comments were positive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent School Relationship, Grade 9, Fathers
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Bersudskaya, Vera; Cataldi, Emily Forrest – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
These Web Tables focus on public school teachers in grades 9-12 who taught primarily career and technical education (CTE), academic, or other subjects during the 2007-08 school year. CTE teachers are grouped based on their main subject area: nonoccupational CTE, including family and consumer sciences education and general labor market preparation,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Academic Education