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This report sets out key findings from PISA as they relate to teenage career development. The report shows that across OECD countries, students are now expressing very high levels of career uncertainty and confusion. Job expectations have changed little since 2000 and bear little relationship to actual patterns of labour market demand, including…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Planning, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedSikora, Joanna – Australian Journal of Education, 2018
While research on adolescent occupational expectations is voluminous, it either ignores students who do not report any career plans or imputes their answers. Consequently, little is known about the potential consequences that not having clear occupational expectations in adolescence might have for educational and occupational attainment in young…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Career Exploration, Decision Making, Occupational Aspiration
Download full textHo, Esther Sui-Chu; Sum, Kwok Wing; Wong, Raymond Sin Kwok – ECNU Review of Education, 2018
Purpose: This study examines the career and educational search competencies (CESC), a capability which may be necessary for a successful transition from high school to work or postsecondary education, of students from Shanghai and Hong Kong. Design/Approach/Methods: The data for this study was taken from the Main Study of PISA 2012 in Shanghai and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Influences
Kang, Jingoo; Keinonen, Tuula – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Much research has been conducted to investigate the effects of inquiry-based learning on students' attitude towards science and future involvement in the science field, but few of them conducted in-depth studies including young learners' socio-cognitive background to explore mechanisms which explain how inquiry experiences influence on career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Instruction
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer "a man" to the first question, and "a woman" to the second, there's probably a reason. And the reason is simply that more men than…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Labor Market, Engineering
