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Lili Toh; Helen M. G. Watt – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
An explanation for the underrepresentation of women in mathematical fields is the communal goal congruity perspective; that women tend to value communal over agentic goals, perceived to not be afforded by mathematical careers. Less is known about how agentic and communal goals may interact to influence mathematical career trajectories. Analysing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Watt, Helen M. G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This study examined the continued gender imbalance in mathematics participation in senior high, which has implications for adolescents' future careers. It confirms persisting greater male participation in maths-related educational and occupational choices among this sample of Australian youth. Gendered course-taking in maths, along with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Females, Careers
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Punch, Renee; Hyde, Merv – Deafness and Education International, 2005
This article reports on the social participation of hard-of-hearing adolescents attending integrated school settings with itinerant teacher support, and the relationship between the students' perceptions of their social participation and their social self-concept and career decision-making. As part of a mixed methods study investigating the career…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Hearing Impairments, Adolescents, Regular and Special Education Relationship