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Download full textNational Council on Teacher Quality, 2024
The teacher workforce does not look much like the adult population or the students they serve. Across the country, only 21% of teachers are from historically disadvantaged racial groups compared to 35% of working-age adults and 49% of students. Simple math suggests that the diversity gap between students and teachers will only close when teachers…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Racial Composition, Adults
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Direct linkDorph, Rena; Bathgate, Meghan E.; Schunn, Christian D.; Cannady, Matthew A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
This paper proposes three new measures of components STEM career preferences (affinity, certainty, and goal), and then explores which dimensions of "science learning activation" (fascination, values, competency belief, and scientific sensemaking) are predictive of STEM career preferences. Drawn from the ALES14 dataset, a sample of 2938…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Careers, Career Choice, Vocational Interests
WALSH, GEORGE A. – 1966
THIS IS A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW APPROACH TO VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE THROUGH THE USE OF EXHIBITS AND DISPLAYS. THE CHOICE OF APPROXIMATELY 150 SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS TO BE EXHIBITED WAS BASED ON SUCH CRITERIA AS (1) PROJECTED NUMBER OF WORKERS IN EACH OCCUPATION, (2) APPEAL OF SELECTED OCCUPATIONS TO SECONDARY, TRADE, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, (3) APPEAL OF…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Dropout Prevention, Exhibits
Bingaman, David E. – 1987
This outline for a middle school career development guide includes five sections and two appendices. Section 1 outlines the philosophy and objectives of middle level education at Selinsgrove Area Middle School in Pennsylvania. Section 2 outlines objectives of career development. Section 3 lists four types of course content, including classroom…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Dole, Arthur A.; Passons, William R. – 1970
The Costerville Plans Project (Costerville being a pseudonym), sponsored by the Costerville Public Schools, Lincoln University, and the University of Pennsylvania, is concerned with the complex process of decision-making among black adolescents and with the influences of social change, counselor, teacher, and parent. The purpose of this pilot…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Choice, Career Planning, High School Graduates
Conroy, Carol A. – 1997
A survey of rural secondary school students examined the formation of adolescent occupational identity by identifying predictors of students' ideal jobs. Data were collected from 612 of the approximately 750 students in grades 7-12 in a rural Pennsylvania school district. Predictors of choice of ideal job, by descending influence, were gender,…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance
