In its 2004 spring report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) posits that Behavioral Sciences provides a perspective that can assist physicians in understanding their patients as embedded in a larger social and environmental context (Patricia A. Cuff and Neal Vanselow, Editors, Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science…

Discusses a 12-year Harvard study of the career paths of over 650 business professionals at all levels that analyzed how people make career decisions. Includes the Business Career Interest Inventory that was developed to assess occupational interest areas. (JOW)

Developed Career Factors Inventory, a multidimensional measure of career indecision containing two information factors (Need for Career Information and Need for Self-Knowledge) and two personal emotional factors (Career Choice Anxiety and Generalized Indecisiveness). Conducted reliability and concurrent validity analyses. (Author/ABL)

A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…

This action research study (ARS) describes teacher perceptions of various career guidance instruments in one high school and their impact on high school students in career decision-making. The paper also discusses the teacher ranking of the career guidance methods and ways in which counselors and teachers can work together to assist students to…

A survey of 117 young people (ages 4 to 15) in 4 public libraries in New Haven, Connecticut, examined children's attitudes toward librarians. Responses to questions about career aspirations and perceived qualities of librarians, as well as children's descriptions of their own drawings of librarians indicated a generally positive view. (10…

This study sought to determine the views of teachers in 40 school systems in the service area of Southeast Georgia (SEGA) on teaching as a career and a variety of educational reform issues. Specific questions addressed by the study were: (1) How do teachers in SEGA perceive the teaching profession as a career opportunity? (2) How do SEGA teachers…

A recent study measured the attitudes toward teaching as a career among selected United States military personnel. The study dealt with persons leaving two branches of the armed service, the Army and the Navy, based on the assumption that they represented the bulk of the persons on active duty who comprise a potential source of teacher candidates.…

This document identifies patterns of characteristics of those who have leisure as an option at mid-life. A comparison was made between individuals electing to enter teaching and those electing to pursue leisure at this life stage. Results of structured interviews, statistical results, and an analysis of a life satisfaction scale is given. In…

This study found that 55% of journalism and mass communication educators first considered college teaching while in college or within 5 years after graduating from college, while 40% did not until more than 5 years after college. Two important factors in their career decisions included a personal influence (i.e., a mentor) and media experience,…

A questionnaire was constructed for the purpose of investigating various aspects of the career choices made by graduate students. The research was to determine the underlying structure of the questionnaire and to compare the capability of nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) and linear factor analysis (FA) to reveal dimensions measured by the…

The attitudes of new high school graduates toward apprenticeship careers as first-choice vocations were examined in a survey of 70 students who were randomly selected from the graduating classes of 5 high schools in northeastern Alberta. Twenty students participated in focus group interview sessions, and 50 students completed questionnaires.…

This study examines possible interaction effects of gender and region (urban vs. rural) on student beliefs about women in math and science, their attitudes towards math and science, and their confidence in the use of technology. A secondary purpose of this study is to examine possible differences in confidence of using technology between high…

Data concerning librarians' beliefs about possible problems associated with dual career marriages, as well as data on the educational and marital histories of librarians, were collected by a mail questionnaire distributed to a random sample of alumnae from the graduating master's classes of the School of Library and Information Studies of Texas…

This paper examines role conflict and role overload of physicians. A comparison of women physicians, women neighbor controls, and men physicians is made in an attempt to prove that role conflict and overload are distinct problems of the women physicians. A 207-item questionnaire concerned with demography, education, work patterns, household…