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Download full textAlvin Christian; Matthew Ronfeldt; Basit Zafar – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We survey undergraduate students at a large public university to understand the pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors driving their college major and career decisions with a focus on K-12 teaching. While the average student reports there is a 6% chance they will pursue teaching, almost 27% report a nonzero chance of working as a teacher in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Occupational Aspiration, Career Choice
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Direct linkEccles, 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
THOMPSON, JOHN F. – 1966
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DISCERN THOSE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF A SELECTED GROUP OF FORMER VOCATIONAL TEACHERS WHO (1) GRADUATED FROM MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1952, 1956, 1958, 1960, AND 1961 QUALIFIED TO TEACH EITHER AGRICULTURE, BUSINESS, OR HOME ECONOMICS, (2) BEGAN TO TEACH VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IMMEDIATELY AFTER…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Careers, Employment Patterns
Foster, Jan; Simonds, Betty – 1995
This manual has been developed to assist school districts in Michigan in their efforts to retain students who have made vocational education choices that are nontraditional for their sex. The manual provides school districts with four alternative ways of supporting nontraditional vocational education students: (1) nontraditional student club; (2)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Mentors, Nontraditional Occupations, Nontraditional Students
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Office of Career and Technical Education. – 1996
ASETS (Achieving Sex Equity Through Students) is a peer leadership program designed to prepare Michigan high school students to develop and present sex-equitable career-related programs to middle school students. The emphasis is on career decision making based upon career interests rather than gender. This handbook is a guide for a 2-day workshop…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, High School Students, Intermediate Grades
