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Cornali, Federica – Education 3-13, 2019
This study explores the main motives inspiring the choice of the teaching profession. To this end, a group of almost 400 Italian students enrolled in a training programme for pre-primary and primary school teachers was surveyed through questionnaires and discursive interviews on the main reasons for choosing a career as a teacher, and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Motivation
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Falco, Lia D.; Summers, Jessica J. – Journal of Career Development, 2019
This study evaluated whether a career group intervention that incorporates the four sources of self-efficacy and addresses perceived career barriers is effective at improving the career decision self-efficacy and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) self-efficacy for adolescent girls. Of the 88 girls in our study, 42 students…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Self Efficacy, STEM Education, High School Students
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Tarbutton, Tanya – Multicultural Education, 2019
Women are more visible than men in almost every area of education; however, they are underrepresented in top-tier leadership positions. There is no shortage of female educators; however, there is a shortage of female leaders. Scholars have highlighted this discrepancy, shedding light on a century-old problem. This article explores some of the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Gender Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Females
Elbert, Amy Joleen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental research study was to explore the difference that life experiences, educational experiences, and clinical experiences made on physical therapy students' considerations to practice pediatrics. There has been a lack of research regarding how different experiences with children integrated into the…
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Pediatrics, Experiential Learning
McBain, Lesley – Council of Independent Colleges, 2019
Chief academic officers (CAOs) of independent colleges and universities are the principal leaders of their institutions' academic programs. As such, they oversee the core teaching, research, and academic service functions of their colleges and universities. They also often serve as the seconds-in-command of their institutions after the president;…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, College Administration, Administrators, Department Heads
Kovacic, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental correlational study was to evaluate the influences of video gaming activities on information technology enrollment at the post-secondary education level. The research entailed an examination of the relationships between video gaming, information technology academic entry, behavioral intention to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Video Games, Information Technology, Usability
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Ciarocco, Natalie J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
Traditional career preparation courses provide students with a variety of benefits. Students taking these courses report a better understanding of psychology-related careers, less indecision about their future careers, and are more knowledgeable about themselves in relation to careers. Yet only 37% of undergraduate psychology programs offer formal…
Descriptors: Psychology, Assignments, Career Development, Undergraduate Students
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Magnotta, Sarah R. – Marketing Education Review, 2018
Inside sales is a fast-growing sales profession, with the increase in inside sales positions skyrocketing beyond outside sales positions. Unfortunately, instructors lack the resources to adequately prepare students for inside sales careers. This study provides an innovative, short-term module that introduces the topic of inside sales,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Sales Occupations, Role Playing, Teaching Methods
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Taghizadeh, Sanaz; Lincoln, James – Physics Teacher, 2018
The introductory physics classroom has long educated students about the properties of the atom and the nucleus. But absent from these lessons has been an informed discussion of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and its parent science nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Physics teachers should not miss the opportunity to instruct upon this highly…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Diagnostic Tests
Luby, Erin C. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study of award-winning high school principals was designed to distill lessons from highly effective school leaders. The research explored how personal motivation and professional core values influence the practice, priorities and decisions of exemplary principals. The research followed a sequential explanatory mixed methods design.…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, Career Choice
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Robert Tomšik; Viktor Gatial – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
Personality plays a significant role in influencing motivation for choosing a perspective profession. As empirical evidence confirmed, personality traits conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion are in positive correlation with intrinsic motives for choosing teaching as a profession (in negative with personality trait neuroticism),…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
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Diaconu-Gherasim, Loredana R.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Moore, Michael T.; Kerns, Kathryn A. – Educational Psychology, 2023
This study evaluated the relations between adolescents' school and career future time perspective and their academic-related outcomes (i.e. grades, learning problems, and task orientation) and whether mastery goals are mediators of these relations. Romanian adolescents (N = 229, 59% girls) completed questionnaires assessing future orientation,…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Academic Achievement, Time Perspective, Futures (of Society)
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Sara Genut; Yifat Ben-David Kolikant – Informatics in Education, 2023
Programs in bioinformatics, offered in many academic institutes, are assumed to expand women's representation in computer science (CS). Women's enrolment in these programs is high. Our questions are: Do these programs attract different women from those attracted to CS programs? What factors underlie women's decision to enroll in bioinformatics…
Descriptors: Biology, Information Science, Computer Science Education, Disproportionate Representation
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Payne, Corey; Crippen, Kent J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Persistence is a major issue facing students, particularly those who are both female and from underrepresented ethnic minorities (URM). A closer look at the variables affecting their commitment and capacity for continuing the pursuit of their goal allows us to better design support systems that bolster persistence. This study tests a structural…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Correlation, Teaching Methods
Omar Diaz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical phenomenological study aims to analyze the lived experiences of Latino male student affairs (SA) professionals considered early to mid-career at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Three research questions guide the study: 1) How do Latino male SA professionals in higher education describe their leadership experiences at PWIs?…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Males, Experience, Professional Personnel
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