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Hencke, Juliane; Eck, Matthias; Sass, Justine; Hastedt, Dirk; Mejia-Rodriguez, Ana Maria – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
Using IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 data, this brief explores the relationship between students' gender, their confidence and achievement in mathematics and science, and their aspirations to pursue careers in these fields. We find that more boys than girls at grade 8 want to have a mathematics- or…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, High Achievement, Gender Differences
Routon, P. Wesley; Hartley, Phillip; Torres, Luis – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2022
Understanding students' post-graduation goals is important because it aids faculty and administrators in course and program design, mentoring, and generally serving students. Using a sample of almost 513,000 undergraduates from more than 600 colleges and universities, we examine goals and plans of international business majors. Students were…
Descriptors: Program Design, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education
Kaur, Jagpreet; Kaur, Khushgeet – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2022
The present study intended to examine the impact of an activity-based intervention on the attitude and awareness of adolescents towards sustainability and its dimensions using a quasi-experimental research design. A cluster sample of 99 participants, experimental and control groups comprising of 50 and 49 school students, was selected for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Students, Secondary School Students
Santilli, Sara; Hartung, Paul J. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
My Career Story (MCS) comprises a self-guided autobiographical workbook designed to assist individuals across life's diverse spectrum to narrate and shape their career stories. We describe the development and use of the MCS and its relevance for all people contemplating career transitions. Results of a study using the MCS with 20 emerging adults…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Workbooks, Career Choice, Career Change
Zainuddin, Muhammad Nizam; Tasnim, Rahayu; Mukhtar, Dzulkifli – On the Horizon, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the construction of entrepreneurial identity in a cross-disciplinary postgraduate entrepreneurship education program influence students' entrepreneurial passion progression as they enact different role identities and concurrently deal with competing microidentities. Design/methodology/approach: Using the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Concept, Futures (of Society), Graduate Students
Danying Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background: Although a better understanding of parental influences on college students' occupational identity development (OID) and ultimate career choice(s) can help HRD personnel (including college counselors) provide more relevant and effective career-choice information when advising students, parental influence itself varies by many factors,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Occupational Aspiration, Self Concept
Lawrence, Salika; Johnson, Tabora; Small, Chiyedza – Journal of Negro Education, 2019
Case study methods were used to examine the implementation and process used to recruit STEM majors of color into teaching. This article describes a one-year pilot designed to recruit biology majors into teaching. Analyses of the meeting minutes, as well as focus group, and field notes, and participants' reflections revealed that mentorship was an…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Program Implementation
Reddick, Richard J.; Pritchett, Katie Ortego – Texas Education Review, 2019
Scholars have encouraged universities to more effectively engage with surrounding communities. One example of community engagement is the service-learning partnership between the Plan II Honors Program and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) public charter school in Austin, through which college students enroll in a class to mentor local middle…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Alumni, Service Learning, Mentors
Frazier, Raelynn; Bendixen, Lisa D.; Hoskins, Wendy J. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2019
The decision to choose teaching as a career is a commitment fewer people are making and a decision that is rife with complexity. The current state of teacher shortages and attrition both nationally and internationally impels us to investigate this situation. Within the area of career decision-making, the concept being researched most focuses on…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
Jamba, Sangay – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2019
The present research was carried out to forecast the protagonist of parental involvement in the Career Decision making among students of Senior Secondary School. This study was basically descriptive method used to acquire important and accurate information. The main objectives were to analyze the inter-relationship between career decision making…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parents
Annetts, Sue; Day, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Pre-entry information and transitional support are identified as key factors promoting student success and retention, encouraging a pro-active approach to entry into Higher Education. Furthermore the Equality Act, in terms of anticipatory duty, emphasises this. However, some student groups studying for professional degrees, such as physiotherapy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Physical Therapy, Honors Curriculum
Nistal, María Teresa Fernández; Soto, Jairo Keven Mora; Zaragoza, Frannia Aglaé Ponce – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: In John Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments, the hexagonal model organizes personal and occupational data, and serves to define the degree of consistency in a personality or job environment configuration, as well as the degree of congruence between a person and their environment. The objective of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Vocational Interests, Career Choice
Minaz, Muhammet Baki; Akin, Mehmet Ali – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2019
This study seeks to evaluate teacher trainees' career expectations in terms of gender, age, parental living status, place of birth and marital status. A mixed model was used in the study. The population of the study is comprised of students of the Siirt University Faculty of Education, while the sample for the quantitative research and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Expectation, Occupational Aspiration
Raabe, Isabel J.; Boda, Zsófia; Stadtfeld, Christoph – Sociology of Education, 2019
Individuals' favorite subjects in school can predetermine their educational and occupational careers. If girls develop weaker preferences for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), it can contribute to macrolevel gender inequalities in income and status. Relying on large-scale panel data on adolescents from Sweden (218 classrooms,…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Social Influences, Career Choice, STEM Education
Thériault, Anne; Gazzola, Nicola – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2019
Becoming a counsellor supervisor is a professional choice that has been explored from an objective standpoint resulting in multidimensional understandings of the requirements and components of the role. Nevertheless, the experience of supervisors as they undertake this profession within a profession remains nebulous. Twelve Canadian supervisors…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Foreign Countries, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Role