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Download full textOymak, Ceylan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
As they think about their future, high school students can face a wide range of education and career choices. How do they choose? Who helps young people make their educational and career choices? In particular, to what extent do schools help students with these decisions? Given the importance of education and career decisions for life success,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Career Choice, Influences
Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; McEachin, Andrew; Miller, Luke C.; Wyckoff, James – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2014
The relatively low status of teaching as a profession is often given as a factor contributing to the difficulty of recruiting teachers, the middling performance of American students on international assessments, and the well-documented decline in the relative academic ability of teachers through the 1990s. Since the turn of the 21st century,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Teaching (Occupation), Status, Teacher Certification
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2016
Graduate business programs set admission goals, develop marketing plans, and try to enhance their yield to meet enrollment objectives each year. The mba.com Prospective Students Survey that the Graduate Management Admission Council conducts yearly aims to provide relevant, timely, and actionable information about the prospective candidate pipeline…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Career Choice, College Choice
Romaguera, Claude Bonazzo; Jensen, Mishan; Wang, Crystal – Online Submission, 2018
This full report (a brief summary report also was published separately) describes results from the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Student Survey, administered in Spring 2017 in AISD. The survey was designed to gather students' feedback about their experiences taking the advanced CTE courses offered in their specific career pathway. Students…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Student Attitudes, Advanced Courses, School Districts
Direct linkCanning, John – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
Despite numerous criticisms of the UK National Student Survey (NSS) institutional managers still strongly support its use in informing student choice, quality and assurance and quality enhancement activities. This article outlines a granular and nuanced benchmarking system for the NSS which provides both a "raw" score (weighted student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Weighted Scores
Statistics Canada, 2015
The skills youth acquire at the end of their formal education are partly a reflection of the career plans and accompanying program choices they have made throughout their education. Whether these choices best meet Canadian labour market requirements has been the subject of considerable discussion and policy development over the past decade. The…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Career Planning
Gao, Niu – Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University, 2013
This report contains the results of the 2009-10, 2010-11, and 2011-12 Principal and Assistant Principal (AP) Surveys conducted by Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA). The surveys were administered to principals and assistant principals in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). This report appears in three parts, each…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Surveys, Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Topper, Amelia M.; Howard, Melissa – National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, 2017
Issues of postsecondary education access and attainment have a direct impact on individuals' social and economic mobility, the labor market, and the nation's ability to stay globally competitive. Sample surveys--cross-sectional or longitudinal surveys of a subpopulation of individuals--on precollege experiences and preparation, postsecondary…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Postsecondary Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Policy
Backes, Benjamin; Holzer, Harry J.; Velez, Erin Dunlop – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2014
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to Unemployment Insurance (UI) earnings data and also to secondary education records.…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education
Salmon, Aliénor – UNESCO Bangkok, 2015
What factors might be causing the low participation of women Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields? What can be done to attract more girls and women into STEM in Asia and beyond? The report, "A Complex Formula. Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia", answers three fundamental…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Career Choice
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2014
Every month, thousands of individuals from around the globe register on mba.com--the portal to the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exam and information source for prospective students interested in pursuing a graduate management degree. Their registration on mba.com and efforts to prepare for and apply to graduate business school…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
ACT, Inc., 2014
Annually American College Testing (ACT) provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is designed to help educators understand and answer the following questions: (1) Are students prepared for college and career, and are younger students on target? (2) Are enough students taking core…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Graduates
Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Wang, Ming-Te – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Drawing on Eccles' expectancy-value model of achievement-related choices, we examined the personal aptitudes and motivational beliefs at 12th grade that move individuals toward or away from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations at age 29. In the first set of analyses, occupational and lifestyle values, math ability…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 12, Gender Differences, High School Students
Mostafa, Tarek; Pál, Judit – OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student, and school characteristics are related to science teachers' satisfaction in 19 PISA-participating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Evidence, Teacher Surveys
Baran, Medine; Maskan, Abdulkadir; Baran, Mukadder – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' reasons for choosing the profession of teaching and their level of job satisfaction and to investigate the effects of certain variables on their job satisfaction. The research data were collected via a questionnaire form to determine the demographic backgrounds of the participants and a Job…
Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Science Teachers
