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Adiguzel, Oktay Cem; Karagol, Ibrahim – Excellence in Education Journal, 2022
This study aims to analyze the motivation factors of teacher candidates in choosing the teaching profession. The study employed a survey model which was carried out with 543 teacher candidates. The data were collected through the "Factors Influencing Teaching Choice Scale" and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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Kosloski, Michael F.; Reed, Philip A.; Loya, Roberto; Abdelhamid, Mariam – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2022
This study examined the current climate of how Virginia CTE teachers perceive their profession and if they are encouraging their students to enter the teaching profession. A survey developed by the National Center for Education Statistics was submitted to CTE teachers in Virginia (n = 743) to address these questions. Descriptive statistics helped…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice
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Michalec, Paul; Newburgh, Katherine – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2022
Teacher growth and development are heavily focused on best practices, the technical aspects of teaching, often at the exclusion of deep practices, the heart-focused dimensions of teaching. Using an action research methodology, researchers offer a practical framework for coaching teachers on ways to develop the deep practices that underscore the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Action Research
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Ewing-Cooper, Allison; Gallien, Kathryn N. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
Advice for PhD graduates seeking to leave academia has proliferated over the last decade, but little attention has been paid to those who continue to work in universities in administrative positions. This study employs a phenomenological qualitative approach to explore the lived experiences of twelve people with PhDs who have taken this…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes
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Skakni, I.; Inouye, K.; McAlpine, L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper addresses the subjective experiences of PhD holders from Switzerland and the UK who pursue careers beyond academia. Drawing on the concepts of organisational culture and culture shock, we examined the challenges that characterise this passage from academia to non-academic workplaces. With an exploratory aim, we analysed 32…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Organizational Culture, Work Environment, Foreign Countries
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Roberts, Kiana; Hoyer, Gretchen; Harvey, Pamela – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Engagement in research as an undergraduate and the availability of mentorship from peers and professionals are effective strategies for improving retention of students in STEM fields. Undergraduates in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder enroll in one of two large introductory course-based…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Career Development, Career Readiness
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Colburn, Anita A. Neuer; Herrera, Isabella M. – Journal of College Access, 2022
LGBTQ+ teens' career decision-making processes are confounded by LGBTQ+ identity development and negative experiences in school. The authors present literature identifying specific needs of LGBTQ+ teens involved in career planning and propose a specialized career group counseling model designed to address those needs. Potential application for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Adolescents, LGBTQ People, Career Choice
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See, Beng Huat; Munthe, Elaine; Ross, Sarah A.; Hitt, Loraine; El Soufi, Nada – Review of Education, 2022
This paper reports on a comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work on the main factors influencing people's decisions to be teachers or not. Four search engines, including Google and Google Scholar and five electronic databases identified 517 studies of which 212 were included…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Motivation, Influences
Andrews, Rodney J.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Stange, Kevin M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
There is a growing body of research examining the labor market returns to college major, motivated by the large returns to skill in the labor market. Prior research has focused almost exclusively on mean effects and has paid little attention to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Labor Market, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Liddle, Stephanie; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Prior work on teacher candidates in Washington State has shown that about two thirds of individuals who trained to become teachers between 2005 and 2015 and received a teaching credential did not enter the state's public teaching workforce immediately after graduation, while about one third never entered a public teaching job in the state at all.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Insurance, Unemployment, Data
Karli Taschner – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated assistant principals' motivations to stay in their current position. It identified characteristics, events, and factors that describe why assistant principals choose to stay in their position rather than return to the classroom, transition to a lead principal position, or leave the profession entirely. This was accomplished…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Labor Turnover, Motivation, Influences
Hillary Jane Tribbs – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Given the underrepresentation of women within faculties in the physical science, this study investigated how the experiences of female graduate students influenced their postgraduate career choices. It queried the experiences of twelve female participants, their perceptions of an academic faculty career, and asked for suggestions for how…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Physical Sciences
Dougherty, Kevin J. – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
This paper examines how the process of making higher education choices in the United States--whether to enter higher education, attend a particular college, or follow a particular path through college--produces and legitimates social inequality. The paper's central thesis is that a societal regime of many choices--while serving individual freedom…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Access to Information, College Choice
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Main, Joyce B. – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: The underrepresentation of women in engineering has important consequences for meeting the need for a larger, talented scientific and technological labor force. Increasing the proportion of women faculty in engineering will help increase the persistence probabilities of women undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, as well as…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Employment Patterns, Females, Graduate Students
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Chen, Charles P.; Doherty, Haley – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
The career development experiences of rural youth are worthy of specialized attention from career counsellors. While rural youth share many commonalities with their urban counterparts, the rural experience presents distinctions that can influence their life-career decisions. To support career decision-making, career counsellors should be aware of…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Choice
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