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Leppel, Karen; Williams, Mary L.; Waldauer, Charles

doi:10.1023/a:1012716828901

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“…Student household characteristics, specifically parent education and parent occupation, are also found to be important predictors of Qatari students' career expectations. These results corroborate similar findings concluded in other studies (Ing, 2014;Raque-Bogdan, Klingaman, Martin, & Lucas, 2013;Leppel, Williams, & Waldauer, 2001). …”

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“…Parents' level of education has been found to have a significant and positive relationship with to their aspirations for their children's educational and occupational pursuits (Ing, 2014;Raque-Bogdan, Klingaman, Martin, & Lucas, 2013;Hill & Tyson, 2009). Research on the perceived relationship between the parent's profession and their child's career pursuit has shown that the father or mother's field of work is a predictor of students' choice of STEM (Leppel, Williams, & Waldauer, 2001;Moakler, & Kim, 2014).…”

Section: Contextual-level Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Career Expectations in STEM, Business or Public Sector Fields

Sellami

Kimmel

Wittrock

et al. 2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The purpose of this study was to identify factors shaping career expectations of Qatari students. The study examined individual and motivational variables likely to influence career expectations in STEM fields, the public sector, and business. This study used survey data of 802 Qatari students and 543 parents from the 2012 Qatar Education Study. The results suggest a varied, context-dependent portrait of career expectations. The results indicate that the education system in Qatar influenced students' STEM career expectations and demonstrate that operating a private business or seeking a job in the public sector continues to rival their expectations about STEM careers in Qatar. The paper concludes with some important implications for policy as well as recommendations for further study and research.

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confidence: 94%

Section: Contextual-level Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Career Expectations in STEM, Business or Public Sector Fields

Sellami

Kimmel

Wittrock

et al. 2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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“…In a related study, Leppel, Williams & Waldauer (2001) reported that gender, race, ability, financial stability requirement and parental occupation significantly affects the students' decisions while Didia & Hasnat (1998) and Bauer and Dahlquist (1999) stated that personality has a key role in the major selection. Similarly, in Worthington and Higgs (2004), the authors noted that the student choose their major according to their personality and personal interests.…”

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Factors Influencing the Students’ Choice of Accounting as a Major: The Case of X University in United Arab Emirates

Rababah¹

2016

IBR

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This study tried to examine the factors that influence students' choice of accounting at X Private University. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data for the five hypotheses which were tested in this study related to the factors of reputation of the university or college, personal interests, job prospect, family members and peers, and media. The findings of the study revealed that personal interests, personality, job prospect, reputation of the university and media did not have a significant influence on the students' choice of accounting as a major. On the other hand, data analysis shows thatfamily members and peers, significantly related to the students' choice of accounting as a major. In other words, hypotheses H 1 , H 2 , H 3 , and H 5 are rejected, whereas hypothesis H 4 is accepted. This research contributes to literature by identifying the relationship between the independent variables (reputation of the university, personal interests, job prospect, family members and peers, and media) and the dependent variable (student's choice of accounting as a major), and the results of the study give valuable information to university's management to know how they can influence families to increase the number of students enrolling in such university, especially accounting students. This research also tested a new variable, which is reputation of the university -a variable that is expected to influence students' choices.

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“…They show that, at the highest level of socio-economic status, increases in academic performance resulted in a decrease in the choice of enterprising-related majors. Leppel et al (2001) examine the data based on the 1990 survey of Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS), that follows a group of students who began their postsecondary educational careers during academic year 1989-90. They show that an increase in socio-economic status of the families of college students would be good news for humanities and social science departments, but bad news for education and science and engineering.…”

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Arts vs Engineering: The Choice Among Consumption and Investment in Education

Romano

Tampieri

2013

SSRN Journal

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In this paper we develop a model in which students choose their university courses according to both investment and consumption incentives. We show that in the private problem, the education decisions are inefficient compared to the social optimum. The result is driven by the fact that students do not consider an externality of acquiring education for investment purposes in the working environment. We show that it is possible to design tuition fees in such a way that students acquire the socially optimal level of education.JEL Numbers: D62; H21; I21.

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Cited by 129 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Career Expectations in STEM, Business or Public Sector Fields

Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Career Expectations in STEM, Business or Public Sector Fields

Factors Influencing the Students’ Choice of Accounting as a Major: The Case of X University in United Arab Emirates

Arts vs Engineering: The Choice Among Consumption and Investment in Education

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