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Kaleva, Satu; Celik, Ismail; Nogueiras, Gloria; Pursiainen, Jouni; Muukkonen, Hanni – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2023
Declining interests in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) related careers are concerning at a time when the society is becoming more reliant on complex technologies and science. Our study examined the predictors of students' STEM career interests within cohort data (N = 601) collected from Finnish general upper secondary…
Descriptors: STEM Education, STEM Careers, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Marina Milosheva; Peter Robertson; Peter Cruickshank; Hazel Hall – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
This study explores the career information-seeking behaviours of young people and career advisers. These are examined through the interrogation of a secondary data set held by Scotland's national skills agency, Skills Development Scotland. Descriptive and frequency analyses of engagement records from career conversations reveal three key…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Information Systems, Career Guidance, Foreign Countries
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Ilse Vranken; Laura Vandenbosch – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2025
Media is an important socialization actor through which adolescents can learn about careers. Nine focus group interviews were conducted with 44 late adolescents (M[subscript age] = 16.27; SD[subscript age]= 0.54; 56.82% female) in high schools in Belgium to explore how youth in this age group receive career-related messages, the work tasks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Career Awareness, Career Information Systems
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Garcia, Eric Adrian; McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; Cendejas, Christina – Journal of Career Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of Career Information System (CIS) on ninth-grade student's vocational skills self-efficacy, outcome expectations, work hope, and career decision-making difficulties. CIS is a computer-based career intervention designed to help users become more knowledgeable about themselves and occupational…
Descriptors: Career Information Systems, High School Freshmen, Grade 9, Job Skills
de Cos, Patricia L.; Mulcahy, Nicolina; Chan, Julie – California Research Bureau, 2009
The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Education Work Relationship, Career Education, Career Exploration
de Cos, Patricia L. – California Research Bureau, 2009
The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Education Work Relationship, Job Skills, Career Education