Background: Currently there are international concerns over teacher recruitment and attrition rates, especially in mathematics and the physical sciences. Much has been written about the recruitment of student teachers and the reasons people give for going into teaching, but little on the broader context of these people's lives and the complex…

The third of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to promote gender equality and empower women. This article discusses the factors that are associated with 31 female higher education students' choices and aspirations to pursue education and careers in mathematics and science-related fields. The analysis is based on semistructured interviews.…

This study provides a model of academic identity development for college students with learning disabilities from the integrative self-determination themes of persistence, competence, career decision making, and self-realization. Nineteen self-determined and high-achieving participants were interviewed. The participants' stories illustrate how…

Tested aspects of Super's self-concept theory of career development with a sample of British schoolchildren (N=355). Results showed that agreement between ideal self-concepts and occupational preference concepts was significantly greater than that between actual self-concepts and occupational preference concepts, reflecting the youngsters' greater…

Investigated the hypotheses that similarity of ideal self and occupational stereotypes is important in determining vocational preferences of adolescents, while similarity between expected self and occupational stereotypes is important in determining occupational expectations. Findings supported the idea that ideal self played an important role in…

The psychological meaning and predictive value of a person's vocational aspirations were examined by applying Holland's typology to the vocational aspirations of high school juniors (N=140), and a second sample of college students studied over a one-year interval (N-624). (Author)

This kit of career related materials contains activities, worksheets, case studies, games, and tapes intended for use with teen-age students who have difficulty learning in the regular school setting. Activities, which represent real experiences in the working world, are divided into the following topic areas: (1) job getting skills; (2)…

Tested the hypothesis of greater reliance on the intuitive style by females and on the planning style by males in making career decisions. There were no sex differences in these high school and college samples for stage or style of decision making, vocational self-concept crystallization, or self-rated vocational decisiveness. (Author/BEF)

Describes studies that utilized questionnaires and interviews to explore the factors affecting the career choices of students. Reveals differences between scientists and nonscientists with regard to their preferred learning styles and relates these differences to career choice and self-perception. (DDR)

A study investigated self-efficacy beliefs, sources of efficacy information, person input variables, and outcome expectations in relationship to the career interests of 96 adolescents with learning disabilities. Self-efficacy beliefs were found to be a substantial predictor of career interests and to consistently mediate the relationship of other…

An analysis was made of individual perceptions, implementation issues, costs, and benefits associated with the eight-state pilot of the Career Orientation Planning Profile (COPP) conducted in May-June 1991. Twenty-seven schools from eight states participated in the pilot project, administered to 1,247 students from grades 6 through 12. Respondents…

This study investigated the extent and nature of sex bias in Indiana's vocational education programs. It also examined sex bias in relation to selected factors (motivation, psychomotor and language skills, I.Q., interest, reality, and sex-role perception). Enrollments in vocational programs in twenty-four area vocational programs were analyzed.…

One of the largest problems facing rural school counselors is confronting the low career expectations that many rural students have by the time they reach high school. To clarify this problem, the relationships among career choice, self-concept, and fear of success in rural students is explored here. The study critiques earlier studies of…

Suggests ways to counteract anti-feminine biases in secondary schools. (JH)

This paper is a discussion of a Career Exploration Project jointly undertaken by the Seal of Ohio Girl Scout Council and the Division of Continuing Education of Columbus Technical Institute during the Summer of 1975. The participants were economically disadvantaged young women between the ages of 11 and 17. The main objective was to increase…