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Alvin 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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Shilling, Tammy; Thayer, Jerome; Coria-Navia, Anneris; Ferguson, Heather – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2023
Active teaching methods are believed to facilitate higher-order thinking skills and prepare allied health students for independent clinical decision-making. This quantitative, correlational study aimed to explain the relationships between student preferences for active over traditional methods and their beliefs, the frequency and positiveness of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Active Learning, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
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Cheikhrouhou, Nadia; Ludwig, Kenneth – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This paper will discuss a Virtual Exchange (VE) between the University of Michigan (USA) and the High Institute of Technological Studies of Béja (Tunisia) that took place between October and December 2019. Students from Tunisia and USA were enrolled in two entrepreneurship courses in their respective universities and joined together to work in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Entrepreneurship, College Students
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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
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Eschbach, Cheryl L.; Sirrine, J. R.; Lizotte, Erin; Rothwell, N. L. – Journal of Extension, 2016
This article describes an innovative evaluation plan we employed to capture outcomes of a multiyear beginning farmer program and, specifically, highlights the facilitation technique we used to document short-term and intermediate goals of the program that matched U.S. Department of Agriculture grant requirements and Extension administration…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
HAINES, PETER G.; AND OTHERS – 1965
SIX COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE NEEDED VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, AND TO PROPOSE A FEASIBLE PLAN FOR THESE PROGRAMS. A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS COLLECTED DATA THROUGH SURVEYS, INTERVIEWS, GROUP MEETINGS, AND INSPECTION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. TABLES AND DATA SHOW--(1)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business Education, Distributive Education, Dropouts