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Sirui Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the impact of state educational programs on the economics of education and labor, focusing on the New York State (NYS) STEM Incentive Program and China's tuition-free policy for vocational secondary education (VSE). The first two Chapters analyze the effects of the NYS STEM Incentive Program, an initiative implemented in…
Descriptors: Economics, State Programs, STEM Education, Incentives
Leonard Albert Averhoff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This generic qualitative inquiry (GQI) explores experiential learning in higher education for students interested in law enforcement careers. Through interviews and focus group discussions, the study aimed to uncover insights into the perceptions and experiences of students engaging in a university student security program (USSP). The USSP allows…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Career Choice
Stefanie Siebenhütter – Cogent Education, 2023
This study analyzes Chinese, Spanish, English, Thai, Japanese, Korean, French and German speakers' motivation to teach their first language as a foreign language (FL) online without being trained as a second language teacher (SLT) and compares them with professionally trained SLTs. The threshold for starting SLT without teacher certification in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, French
Falco, Lia D.; Summers, Jessica J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to further clarify the structure of social persuasion as a source of self-efficacy in early adolescence and to examine the influence of social persuasion on STEM self-efficacy. Specifically, we proposed that social persuasion for math should be considered a multifactor construct for middle school students when…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Family Influence, Peer Influence, Science Careers
Ching, Gregory Siy – Education Sciences, 2021
Academic identity is an important aspect of organizing an academic career. An academic identity is distinct and unique and can be defined as the core attitudes that determine how individuals approach the concept of work. In the current era of neoliberalism, changes to university governance in Taiwan have transformed working conditions and hiring…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Career Choice
Tiryaki, Aydin; Adigüzel, Sibel – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
In the present study, the effects of STEM-based robotics applications on students' creativity and scientific attitudes in the Electricity Unit of 7th grade have been investigated using the mixed method's nested pattern. Sixty students, 30 of whom are the experimental group and the other 30 constitute the control group, attending a post-school…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Instructional Effectiveness, Science Instruction
Levkovich, Inbar; Elyoseph, Zohar – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives on childhood, coping methods and reasons for deciding to major in education among undergraduates with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). While the experiences of children and adolescents with ADHD have been the focus of much research, empirical evidence is lacking regarding the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Student Experience
Mills, Reece; Scholes, Laura; Stahl, Garth; McDonald, Sarah; Comber, Barbara; Brownlee, Jo Lunn – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Few studies in science education have examined how place-based experiences influence students' STEM career aspirations. Rural school students' lived experiences of place and non-traditional STEM career aspirations such as farming are scarcely considered in dominant narratives around science aspirations and career pathways. Adopting a critical…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Career Choice
Yeoward, Jennifer L.; Nauta, Margaret M. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
In this study, we examined the degree to which two forms of perceived interpersonal influence relate to college women's plans to become leaders in their career fields. We also tested whether those associations vary as a function of the nontraditionality of the women's majors (as indexed by the percentage of male students in their majors). The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups, Social Influences, Guidance
Yuan, Xinqun; Yu, Le; Wu, Hao – Education Sciences, 2021
Education is an essential component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a questionnaire survey among students from a Chinese senior high school, this study measured the self-reported knowledge, sources of information, learning situations, priorities, the impact of personal life and career planning with respect to the SDGs to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Ben-Caleb., E.; Ademola, A. O.; Olowookere, J. K.; Oladipo, O. A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The shortage of professional accountants has been attributed to the perception accounting students hold about their intended professional careers and this affects their self-image, attitude towards the career and their confidence in the profession. Therefore, this paper critically appraises the perception of undergraduate accounting students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Professional Education, Personality Traits
Kim, JeongJin; Park, Jiyoung; Sohn, Young Woo; Lim, Jung In – Journal of Career Development, 2021
Despite increasing research on the mechanisms that underlie the relation between perceived overqualification (POQ) and extra-role behaviors, the relation's affective mechanisms have been understudied. In this study, we focus on the role of job boredom among overqualified workers in order to understand two types of extra-role behaviors:…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Knowledge Level, Work Attitudes, Job Performance
Szalkay, Csilla; Pajor, Gabriella; Kollár, Katalin N. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Students' attitudes toward science are complex phenomena depending on numerous factors. The factors studied in this work are students' interest in science, their enjoyment of science lessons and career interest in science. Our objective was to investigate the attitudes of students based on these factors. The main question was whether the students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Secondary School Students
Slot, Esther M.; Bronkhorst, Larike H.; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Wubbels, Theo – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Secondary school students in the Netherlands already face future-oriented decisions about their educational careers, which are expected to be informed by their interests in specific vocations or occupations. However, vocational interest assessment tools generally do not account for the possibility that students are interested in multiple…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Grade 9, Career Choice
Turner, Emma; Aitken, Emma; Richards, Gareth – SAGE Open, 2021
There is a higher than chance representation of autistic people and people with elevated autistic traits in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industries. Medical students, despite studying a STEM subject, have lower autistic traits than other STEM students. Medicine is heterogenous, covering technique-oriented specialties…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), STEM Education