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Jay Plasman; Michael Gottfried; Filiz Oskay – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Demand for engineering-interested and proficient high school graduates continues to grow across the nation. However, there remains a severe gap in college participation and employment in engineering fields for students with learning disabilities (SWLDs). One potential way to encourage SWLDs to consider engineering as a profession and promote the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Occupations, Career Choice, Engineering Education
Stephen Billett; Sarojni Choy; Kathy Gibbs; Anh Hai Le; Loraine McKay; Stephen Hay – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
Partnerships with local public sector agencies, enterprises and tertiary institutions offer a means to inform young people about post-school pathways into working life and occupations that schools alone cannot achieve. Informing about those pathways is an important, yet, complex educational goal for schooling. This is because much of schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Counselors, Post High School Guidance, Partnerships in Education
Rodney Anthony Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Problem: Several studies have examined the prediction of calling in college students, but no known study has focused primarily on the development of vocational calling among the vulnerable population of first-generation college students who have a higher drop-out rate than their peers. Examining the composition of vocational calling in…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Religious Colleges, Predictor Variables, Vocational Education
Margaret Xi Can Yin; Amy Kung Wai-ying Chan; Cecilia Lai Wan Chan – Educational Psychology, 2024
Adolescents from low-income families generally have limited resources, which may negatively impact their career development. This study reports findings from the Youth Work-Explorer (Y-WE) career development program for 519 high-school students from low-income families in Hong Kong. One hundred forty-six participants received a three-day career…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, High School Students, Low Income Students, Career Development
Maya Denton; David B. Knight; Jessica R. Deters; Dustin M. Grote; Maura Borrego – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
We summarize national-scale data for Ph.D. earners in engineering or computer science from 2015 to 2019 whose post-graduate school employment is known, highlighting outcomes for biological/biomedical/biosystems engineering students. We use NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), which has collected information from Ph.D. recipients in the USA…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Sex
Charlese E. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem this study addressed is low participation from African Americans in science occupations. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to identify strategies that encourage participation from African Americans in science. The expectancy-value and critical race theories were the theoretical frameworks for this study.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation, STEM Careers
Christine L. Chapman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As a result of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas," a shortage of African American teachers has plagued American schools. A call for the integration of schools, while making great educational strides for Black students, caused a lack of representation from Black teachers and school leaders. Black educators were less likely to…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Blacks, Teaching Experience, Teacher Education
Amanda Oliveira Rabelo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2024
This paper is a comparative study about the male teacher who works in the primary public education in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and Aveiro - Portugal. We intended, fundamentally, to investigate the reasons of teachers 'professional choice who are engaged in area typically associated to women, for this we analyze the teachers' professional choice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Elementary School Teachers, Public Education
Smith, Katie N.; Jaeger, Audrey J.; Thomas, Dana – Research in Science Education, 2021
In the interest of building a larger and more diverse science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, many K-12 STEM programs have proliferated in recent years, yet the long-term effects of participation in these programs remain underexplored. This mixed methods study focuses on an established program, Science Olympiad, and uses…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, STEM Education, College Choice, Majors (Students)
Affum-Osei, Emmanuel; Goto, Sharon G.; Yeung, June Chun; Wang, Rong; Lam, Hodar; Abdul-Nasiru, Inusah; Chan, Darius K.-S. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
This study validates Shane et al.'s Entrepreneurial Career Motives Scale across nations. A total sample of 948 undergraduate and postgraduate students from five nations (China = 229, Hong Kong = 213, Holland = 136, United States = 155, and Ghana = 215) were recruited to complete a survey designed to measure their entrepreneurial motives and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Entrepreneurship, Questionnaires
Reed, Stephanie; Prieto, Elena; Burns, Terry; O'Connor, John – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach programs aim to increase participation in STEM fields. However, the impact of these programs is rarely measured due to inherent difficulties in conducting long-term evaluations. This article presents a decadal evaluation of the Science and Engineering Challenge (SEC), an Australian…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Cribbs, Jennifer; Huang, Xiaoxia; Piatek-Jimenez, Katrina – School Science and Mathematics, 2021
Several key factors have emerged from the literature contributing to the explanation of STEM participation (or lack of), including mathematics mindset, mathematics anxiety, mathematics identity, and mathematics self-efficacy. Despite the research on the relations of these variables to career interest, few studies have integrated them and examined…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Anxiety, Identification (Psychology), Self Efficacy
Mayya, Shreemathi S.; Martis, Maxie; Ashok, Lena; Monteiro, Ashma Dorothy – SAGE Open, 2021
Higher education is anticipating vacancies in senior leadership positions over the coming years. Women are likely to be candidates for these openings, as the number of women pursuing doctoral degrees is rising. However, in the present scenario, there is a dearth of women in senior leadership positions in India. With a purpose to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Teacher Leadership
Hussain, Mumtaz; Sahudin, Shariza; Fauzi, Syahirah Mohd; Manaf, Nurshahirah Abdul; Wahab, Mohd Shahezwan Abd – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
There are many factors that motivate students to choose a particular academic major, whether it is due to interest, salary, or family. Government policies and the curriculum imposed on students may also have an impact. The education and training of future pharmacists offered in various universities should include the skill set necessary for…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Pharmaceutical Education, Career Choice, Majors (Students)
Mark Steward – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to discover the influence of teacher certification routes upon perceptions of social studies teachers regarding the certification process. Five research questions were used to ascertain information centered on why Social Studies teachers chose a particular certification route, what influenced their…
Descriptors: Teachers, Social Studies, Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes