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Al-Khayat, Amjad; Al Khatib, Amal Jamal; Al-Rousan, Ayoub Hamdan – Curriculum and Teaching, 2023
Prospective teachers' attitudes towards teaching are grounded in their experiences of successes and failures as students. Thus, addressing their attitudes towards teaching before starting their profession is strategic. To this aim, this study explored Jordanian prospective kindergarten teachers' attitudes towards the teaching profession.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Kindergarten, Teaching (Occupation)
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Woods, Bobbi; Miller, Cindy Faith; Wheeler, Lorey A.; Reisslein, Martin – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study examined the association between elementary students' (N = 1627; 51.3% girls, ages 4-12) engineering-related ability beliefs (competence), task-value beliefs (interest, importance), and career aspirations. Findings suggest that mean levels of children's engineering-related beliefs did not vary by gender. High levels of competence,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Engineering, Beliefs, Academic Achievement
Tiffany A. Corum – ProQuest LLC, 2021
At the time of this writing, little research had been completed on the occupational aspirations of students and students' perceptions of their parents' career satisfaction. I completed a qualitative study in which I compared the occupational aspirations of 14 third-grade students, 7 girls and 7 boys, from a low socio-economic school and 14…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Parents
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
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DeWitt, Jennifer; Archer, Louise; Osborne, Jonathan; Dillon, Justin; Willis, Beatrice; Wong, Billy – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
Students' interest in studying science and their aspirations to pursue science-related careers is a topic of global concern. In this paper, a set of data gathered for the initial phase of the 5-year study of Science Aspirations and Careers: Age 10-14 (the ASPIRES project) is presented. In the initial phase of this project, a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Careers, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), White Students