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Gangseok Hur; Debra M. Barry; Katrina Alford; Carla B. Jagger; T. Grady Roberts – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
Given the shortage of agriculture teachers across the country, understanding individuals' motivation to pursue a career in teaching agricultural education is critical to developing strategies for teacher recruitment and teacher education. Several studies have investigated factors that motivate preservice and in-service agriculture teachers to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Self Determination, Preservice Teacher Education
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Tatjana Meschede – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Both, educators and policy makers have expressed growing concerns over the low levels of math and science achievement among American students and the decline in the numbers of young people moving into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers (Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century, 2007; National Science…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Robotics, After School Programs
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Potts, Davina; Kim, Jeongeun – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
While participation in learning abroad has increased rapidly over the last decade, short-term programs played an important role in boosting participation and widening access to learning abroad. The current study takes advantage of a new pattern of participation in learning abroad to examine self-reported career outcomes and employability…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Participation, Access to Education, Career Choice
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Fox-Turnbull, Wendy H.; Docherty, Paul D.; Zaka, Pinelopi; Impey, Tessa – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
There is a recognised lack of women participating in engineering and STEM in most western countries. However, it is desirable for engineering cohorts to have a broad diversity. Hence, girls need to be encouraged into all engineering fields, but especially those traditionally dominated by men such as civil, mechanical and software engineering. A…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Engineering, Technical Occupations
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Ulas-Kiliç, Özlem; Peila-Shuster, Jacqueline J. – Journal of Career Development, 2023
The primary purpose of this study was to test career construction theory's model of adaptation among Turkish undergraduate students in their final year. Additionally, the Career Commitment Scale was adapted for Turkish university students to ensure its appropriateness as a measure in testing the model of adaptation. Data obtained from the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Career Development, Vocational Adjustment
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Siebert, Johannes Ulrich; Becker, Maxi; Oeser, Nadine – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2023
At the end of high school, teenagers must deal with the first life-changing decision of determining what to do after graduation. For these decisions, adolescents need to be able to make good choices. However, most schools have not yet implemented decision trainings into their curricula. A new intervention called "KLUGentscheiden!" was…
Descriptors: High School Students, Control Groups, Career Choice, Decision Making
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Drewery, David; Truong, My; Fannon, Anne-Marie – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between the number of co-operative (co-op) education work terms that students completed and the importance they attach to employer and job attributes (i.e. work values). Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from a large cross-sectional survey of co-op students (N = 2,097) from one…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Work Experience Programs, Work Attitudes, Cooperative Education
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Kleimola, Riina; López-Pernas, Sonsoles; Väisänen, Sanna; Saqr, Mohammed; Sointu, Erkko; Hirsto, Laura – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Learning analytics provides a novel means to examine various aspects of students' learning and to support them in their individual endeavors. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of learning analytics to provide insights into non-traditional, vocational practical nurse students' (N = 132) motivational profiles for choosing their…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nontraditional Students, Learning Analytics, Learning Motivation
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Pavin Ivanec, Tea – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
The present study explored motivation for teaching career choice within the FIT-Choice framework among different types of prospective teachers in Croatia. A total number of 634 prospective teachers enrolled in different initial teacher education programmes participated in this study (prospective preschool, classroom and subject teachers). Results…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Career Choice, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Ebner, Katharina; Paul, Karsten Ingmar – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
The study aims at validating the Career Decision-Making Adaptability Score (CDA Score) by investigating its predictive influence on objective and subjective career success, career adaptability, and psychological well-being over a 1-year period. Furthermore, the predictive influence of additional career decision-making strategies was scrutinized.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Vocational Adjustment, Scores
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García, Linda L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Linda L. García never imagined she would one day lead the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE). In fact, she never dreamed of earning a doctoral degree. As children, Linda and her siblings constantly heard from their parents--a father who grew up as a migrant worker and a mother who immigrated to the United States from…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Administrators, Career Choice
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Goldan, Lea; Jaksztat, Steffen; Gross, Christiane – Research Evaluation, 2023
Previous research in different national contexts has shown that individual preferences for certain job attributes, objective labour market conditions, subjective career prospects, and external encouragement shape doctoral graduates' career decisions. For Germany, where the number of awarded doctoral degrees is highest within the European Union and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Career Choice, Foreign Countries
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Success Ayodeji Fasanmi – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
Choice of career is one of the most important decisions that everyone makes in life. This choice in most cases determines placement in the workplace. The determinants of the choices students make career-wise include parents, peers, passion and perceived prospects among others. The choice of career made by individuals have long-term implications on…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Employment Potential, Industrialization
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Duong, Cong Doanh – On the Horizon, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to use the Social Cognitive Career Theory and a serial mediation model to explore how entrepreneurial self-confidence and attitudes mediate the connection between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention. Additionally, the study seeks to examine how gender impacts these relationships.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Esteem, Gender Differences, Graduate Students
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Shaukat, Sadia; Zhang, Shaoan; Garza, Tibero; Lin, Emily – Teacher Development, 2023
The Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) scale measures pre-service teachers' understanding of initial motivations for choosing teaching as a career. A sample of 95 primary and 247 secondary pre-service teachers from Pakistan reported their reasons for choosing teaching as a career. This study used principal component and confirmatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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