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Ulas Ustun – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigates how self-efficacy and motivation predict students' science literacy and career expectations above and beyond their socioeconomic status. A structural equation model built on self-determination theory and self-efficacy was examined using PISA 2015 data from Finland and Japan. The study sample is 5882 and 6647 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10
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Koivisto, Petri; Vinokur, Amiram D.; Vuori, Jukka – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
This randomized experimental study (N = 1,034) examines both the direct and the indirect effects of the Towards Working Life intervention on 2 components of adolescents' career preparation: preparedness for career choice and attitude toward career planning. The intervention comprised a 1-week workshop program, the proximal goals of which were to…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Intervention, Career Choice, Grade 9
Merenluoto, Kaarina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This pilot study determined some typical cognitive-motivational profiles of Finnish lower secondary students dealing with fractions and decimal numbers. Forty seven students from grades 7-9 participated in a number concept test, where also the motivational aspects, such as self-efficacy, certainty and tolerance were measured. Four distinctively…
Descriptors: Profiles, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students