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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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Jung, Jae Yup – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2013
This study developed and tested a new model of the cognitive processes associated with occupational/career indecision for gifted adolescents. A survey instrument with rigorous psychometric properties, developed from a number of existing instruments, was administered to a sample of 687 adolescents attending three academically selective high schools…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Occupational Aspiration, Career Choice, Academically Gifted
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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