The formation of a stable identity, consisting of a strong set of commitments, is a key developmental task in adolescence and young adulthood. Not resolving this task and lacking strong identity commitments is related to difficulties like depressive symptoms and stressful life events. However, the exact role of identity commitments in these…

The term data scientist has only been in common use since 2008, but in 2016 it is considered one of the top careers in the United States. The purpose of this paper is to explore the growth of data science content areas such as analytics, business intelligence, and big data in AACSB Information Systems (IS) programs between 2011 and 2016. A…

This study principally investigates job-related and personality factors that determine Ghanaian accounting students' intentions to pursue careers in accounting. It draws on a rich body of existing literature to develop a research model. Primary data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 516 final year accounting students in a Ghanaian…

Prospective teachers (N = 171) read an essay that manipulated the ethnicity of the student-author (European American, African American, Asian American, or none mentioned). They then rated the author's intelligence and probable future success and estimated the author's GPA. The Asian American student was seen as more intelligent than the control…

This paper considers one system of careers, Wisconsin school superintendents from 1940 through 1972, and examines the extent to which statistical characteristics of that system are consistent with a simple Markov model that assumes both individuals and jobs to be indistinguishable and careers at that level to be essentially random. (Author)

This article shows how the methods of survival analysis (also known as event history analysis) lend themselves to the study of the timing of educational events. Using examples from teacher attrition and student dropout research, survival methods are introduced for building statistical models of the risk of event occurrence over time. (Author/SLD)

Recent findings are reported on the ongoing research related to the socioeconomic career attainment process utilizing the Malmo data set from Sweden as reported in ED 097 268. The general proposition tested is that the association between selected personality resource assets and the desired outcomes of resource conversion settings will be…

The ROTC/Army Career Commitment Model focused on the process of career commitment during the young adult years by examining the career path of an Army officer via the ROTC route. Research questions were related to who joins ROTC and why, who remains as a career Army officer and why, and background factors which increase or decrease commitment to…