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Sarah L. J. Thies; Neil A. Knobloch; Hui-Hui Wang; Bryanna J. Nelson – NACTA Journal, 2024
High school students need to be prepared for postsecondary education and enter the workforce to solve real-world problems including food and energy sustainability. Real-world problems require students to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills and transfer their learning across disciplines. Framed as a grand challenge to students, the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, STEM Education, Relevance (Education)
Sullivan, Felicia M. – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Jobs for the Future (JFF) and BigFuture want all students to have the sense of agency and purpose that comes with feeling hopeful, motivated, excited, confident. An essential step in achieving this is to ensure that high school students and their families receive a timely and abundant flow of information, resources, and advising in order to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Career Education, Career Choice
Israa A. Samarin; Ahmed A. Al-Asfour – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
This paper establishes an understanding of the Saudi National Human Resources Development (NHRD) and proposes effective strategies for improving the NHRD in the knowledge-based economy. Building on the foundations of HRD at the national level, provided by Harbison and Myers and the utilization of Paprock's NHRD model for transitional societies,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Barriers, Sociocultural Patterns
Romero-Rodríguez, Soledad; Moreno-Morilla, Celia; Muñoz-Villaraviz, David; Resurrección-Pérez, Marina – Education Sciences, 2021
Children's career exploration is a critical aspect of career development. Through it, children explore the interplay between their different life roles, including those related to work (in a broad sense), learning, and education. Through career exploration, children can (re)construct the emotions derived from the interactions between personal and…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Social Emotional Learning, Foreign Countries, Low Income Students
Lee, Yuyoung; Kim, Youngjae; Im, Sojeong; Lee, Eunbi; Yang, Eunjoo – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Vocational identity develops through the interplay between process and content dimensions. A three-wave longitudinal study investigated how identity process dimensions (in-breadth exploration, in-depth exploration, commitment making, identification with commitment, self-doubt, flexibility) and content dimensions represented by career goals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Objectives, College Students
Deng, Xinmei; Zeng, Huijun; Liang, Mingyi; Qiu, Jiaqi – Educational Psychology, 2022
The current study identified career-development profiles in a sample of 4815 Chinese adolescents (M[subscript age] = 16.19 years, SD = 0.67) and examined their associations with academic self-efficacy and academic motivation. The latent profile model was built on four facets of career development (career feeling, career belief, career exploration,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Career Development, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Meyer, Melanie S.; Rinn, Anne N. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022
In 1972, the Marland Report included leadership as a domain of giftedness in the first federal definition. Although federal and state descriptions of gifted and talented services still include identifying and developing leadership talent, in many states, services are not mandated or funded. Consequently, leadership development is often left to…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Talent Development, Military Training, Academically Gifted
Career Preparedness among Adolescents: A Review of Key Components and Directions for Future Research
Marciniak, Julian; Johnston, Claire S.; Steiner, Rebekka S.; Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Adolescents and students are faced with the developmental task of becoming prepared for a career and master future career transitions. Existing research has investigated a range of concepts relating to career preparedness, including predictors and outcomes. However, this body of work is fragmented as a number of different conceptualizations and…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Adolescents, Job Skills, Career Development
Williams, Kate Elizabeth; Hutchings, Paul B.; Phelps, Ceri – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
With increasing evidence highlighting the link between psychological factors such as self-esteem, self-efficacy and optimism on employability outcomes, this paper reports an evaluation of a unique student experience initiative called 'Life Design' developed to support the professional and personal development of undergraduate students. First year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Employment Potential, Program Evaluation
Joseph A. Kitchen; Michael S. Williams; Gerhard Sonnert; Philip Sadler – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
This quasi-experimental study examined the impact of participation in college-run STEM career days on American high school students' STEM career aspirations. Data were collected from a nationwide retrospective cohort survey of 15,847 U.S. college students who provided information about their experiences during high school. Accounting for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Occupational Aspiration, STEM Careers, College School Cooperation
Mark Frydenberg; William VanderClock – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
This paper reflects on the process of designing and implementing an update to the "Introduction to Information Technology" course at Bentley University, a business university in New England. Driven by a university-wide curriculum reform initiative and following best practices from digital literacy frameworks and IS model curricula, the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Pilot Projects

Laura Holian; Catharine Warner-Griffin; Benjamin P. Gold – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand if a STEM camp (Gear Up 4 STEM) offered during school breaks could improve science outcomes and engagement of elementary school students. This study followed two cohorts of students in Knox County Schools (grades 3, 4, and 5) over one school year and assessed their performance on the state administered…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Science Achievement
Cynthia L. Miller; Karen L. Alexander; Kyle L. Roberson; Amanda Holland; Gencie Houy; Melanie D. Schmitt; Minerva D. Tuliao – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2023
This article presents a study that explored the implementation of a "Say Yes to FCS" Teaching Camp, a local community initiative in Texas, to address the critical shortage of family and consumer sciences (FCS) teachers in secondary schools. Aimed at incoming 9th- and 10th-grade students, the 4-day camp offered hands-on learning…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Community Organizations
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2023
This playbook provides ways in which Career & Technical Education (CTE) Directors and their teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. CTE Directors can play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Administrator Role, High Schools, Success
Editorial Projects in Education, 2025
Motivating students in mathematics requires innovative and engaging approaches. This Spotlight explores strategies to foster a love of math and cultivate students' problem-solving abilities. From creating motivating classroom environments to connecting math to potential careers, these articles offer valuable perspectives. Discover how to build on…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Innovation, Learner Engagement, Educational Strategies