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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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Weber, Kira E.; Greiner, Franziska – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
We examined the development of pre-service teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes towards inclusive education through first teaching experiences during a 4-week practicum. Additionally, we assessed the burnout-related variables (job-related satisfaction and exhaustion and perceived competence support during the practicum). Whereas t-tests…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Wan, Chin-Sheng; Yang, Jen-te; Cheng, Shu-yun; Su, Chiakai – Educational Review, 2013
A cooperative education experience (or internship placement) is an essential component of the curricula of vocational higher education. The efficacy of internship placements has become one of the major concerns facing those who develop education curricula. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to explore the relationships among the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Goal Orientation, Workplace Learning, Cooperative Education
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Tong, David Yoon Kin; Tong, Xue Fa – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore accountancy students' pre-employment decisions as regards pursuing a career after completing an internship. The paper aims to analyse the mediating effect of aspects of students' training experience in firms as direct/indirect factors which influence their career decisions.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Accounting, Career Choice, Internship Programs
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Blau, Gary; Gibson, Greg; Bentley, Melissa; Chapman, Susan – International Journal of Training and Development, 2012
We tested the incremental impact of a job-related set of variables for explaining a utility judgment training effectiveness variable, that is, course completion skill preparedness, beyond background and course-related variables. Our respondents were two different emergency medical service samples, 415 basics and 742 paramedics, from the 2008 US…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Emergency Medical Technicians, Program Effectiveness, Predictor Variables
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Edwards, Jack E.; Waters, L.K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
Measures of academic job involvement, verbal ability, academic performance, and satisfaction with courses and with college in general, obtained for 155 students during the freshman year, were correlated with attrition on a two-year followup. Freshman grade point average and satisfaction with college in general were two significant predictors of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Pike, Gary R. – 1989
The relationship between job performance and job satisfaction was evaluated using a longitudinal model. During the winter quarter of 1987, approximately 2,000 students at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) received a student satisfaction survey designed to measure student opinions about programs and services at the university and department…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Higher Education, Job Performance
Bean, John P. – 1981
A theoretical model of turnover in work organizations was applied to the college student dropout process at a major midwestern land grant university. The 854 freshmen women subjects completed a questionnaire that included measures for 14 independent variables: grades, practical value, development, routinization, instrumental communication,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research, Employment Patterns
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Martin, Angela; Kennedy, Barbara; Stocks, Belinda – Education Research and Perspectives, 2006
The psychological climate literature examines links between facets of climate, such as service orientation and a range of individual and organisational outcomes including work attitudes and performance. This study investigated the relationship between the service climate of an Australian university and outcomes important to its key stakeholders. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Miskel, Cecil; Bloom, Susan – 1982
Two questionnaire surveys of 89 Kansas public elementary and secondary schools examined, first, the relationship between school expectancy climate--teachers' expectations that their efforts would lead to positive student results--and school effectiveness, and, second, the change in that relationship through the school year. School effectiveness…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
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Scott, Catherine; Burns, Ailsa; Cooney, George – Higher Education, 1998
Motivation for returning to higher education was assessed for 117 adult female college graduates with children and 118 students who had withdrawn before graduation. Motivation was found related to previous education, age, marital status, life cycle stage, employment satisfaction, family support. Interrupters and persisters were generally similar;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Age Differences, College Graduates
McEnery, Jean M.; Des Harnais, Gaston – 1988
The proposal for a study of success factors for overseas business interns is presented. The proposed research would investigate predictors of success for undergraduate and graduate international trade majors from the United States and Western Europe who are interning in foreign countries. Predictors to be considered include personal…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Business Administration Education, College Students
Bachman, Jerald G.; And Others – 1978
This book, the sixth in a series of longitudinal studies initiated by the Youth in Transition Project, examines change and stability and educational and occupational attainments of young men. During the eight year study, nationally representative samples of over 2,000 young men were surveyed and their experiences from 10th grade through five years…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Dropout Research