Factors Influencing Students’ Career Chooses in Science and Technology: Implications for High School Science Curricula

Korkmaz, Hünkar

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.284

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“…This is comparable to studies led on self-esteem and career decisionmaking that point out a connection amid students' sphere self-esteem and career decisionmaking, personality and career decision-making in addition to the impact of social psychology on career choice (Guranda, 2014;Korkmaz, 2015).…”

Section: Cognitive Information Processing Approach and Related Worksupporting

confidence: 72%

Career Decision-Making Competence, Self-Knowledge, and Occupational Exploration: A Model for University Students

Abdullah

Hussin

Shonubi

et al. 2018

JTET

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis AMOS was used to obtain the best-fit measurement models from the variables. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. The findings show that there are significant relationships between self-knowledge (SK) and career decision-making (CDM), and occupational exploration (OE) and career decision-making (CDM). The result for testing invariance of a structural model for multi-group analysis showed a validation model of self-knowledge (SK), occupational exploration (OE) and career decision making (CDM). Based on this finding, it is imperative for graduating university students to enhance their self-knowledge, occupational exploration, and self-confidence in order to portray a positive attitude that will lead to work-related engagement.

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Section: Cognitive Information Processing Approach and Related Worksupporting

confidence: 72%

Career Decision-Making Competence, Self-Knowledge, and Occupational Exploration: A Model for University Students

Abdullah

Hussin

Shonubi

et al. 2018

JTET

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Section: Category 3 Factors Associated With the Demand For Engineerimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies address the various factors related to the preference for enrollement in undergraduate studies (Korkmaz 2015;Wright 2017;Rodríguez et al 2018;Jiang et al 2018;Kuba et al 2018;Fernandes 2018). Korkmaz (2015) mentions that multiple studies have been conducted concerning the professional aspirations of adolescents in different cultures, finding some common intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence career choice. The most critical intrinsic factors found in Turkish students as reported by (Korkmaz 2015), are gender, personality, abilities, expectations, and perceptions and motivational influences; whereas for extrinsic factors were socioeconomic status, cultural background, school curriculum, teacher attitudes and subject support, parental attitudes and values, and society's perception of occupations.…”

Section: Category 3 Factors Associated With the Demand For Engineerimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Korkmaz (2015) mentions that multiple studies have been conducted concerning the professional aspirations of adolescents in different cultures, finding some common intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence career choice. The most critical intrinsic factors found in Turkish students as reported by (Korkmaz 2015), are gender, personality, abilities, expectations, and perceptions and motivational influences; whereas for extrinsic factors were socioeconomic status, cultural background, school curriculum, teacher attitudes and subject support, parental attitudes and values, and society's perception of occupations. In the study, they considered gender as one of the essential intrinsic factors, as Turkish adolescent girls generally lacked interest in careers and professions related to science and technology.…”

Section: Category 3 Factors Associated With the Demand For Engineerimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

Mata-López

Tobón²

2018

Social Sciences

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Despite the great need for computer-related career professionals, some universities that offer specialties to develop professionals with knowledge to cover the mention need, present a decrease in enrollment, which can cause a wide variety of problems. That is why in this paper we set out to investigate what the main factors that directly or indirectly affect student enrollment in computer-related careers are, to establish a literature-based starting point, and to help select the best possible strategy to improve enrollment. To reach this goal, we did a documentary research, categorizing each one of the factors with its respective analysis. In the results, we explain several challenges that educators face, due to the evolution of society needs, two of them are: teaching-learning models and technology; besides, it became evident that the relevance of this academic programs remain available since there is a high demand for these professionals in Mexico, as well as in the world; finally, we showed some intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors that have an essential relevance at the time that a student chooses the career to study. On the other hand, we reflected that the perception of everything that involves the study of a Computing-related career is a factor to be considered in the selection of an educational program of higher education. This study could be a reference for universities that are facing decreasing enrollment concerns. In conclusion, we analyzed and identified the main factors that have an impact on the demand for a career related to engineering, providing possible lines of action for increasing school enrollment.

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“…Studies have been conducted on self-esteem and career decision-making by other researchers [4,5] whose research revealed a relationship between students' global self-esteem and career decision making, a personality and career decision-making as well as the influence of social psychology on career choice. In other word, findings from this study concluded that there is relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making.…”

Section: Relationship Between Self-knowledge and Career Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Grounded Analysis towards Developing a Career Decision Making Competency Model for Students Employability

Abdullah¹,

Hamid²,

Shonubi³

et al. 2016

JHS

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Abstract:Malaysian graduates are normally assumed to be lacking soft-skills and preparation for job-searching, thus affecting their decision-making skills. Thus, this study aims to develop a career decision-making competency model for effective career development among graduating students in Malaysia. The data collected from 1,655 graduating students were tested with confirmatory factor analysis to obtain three best-fit measurement models from the three variables. The findings according to the primary data reveal that there are significant relationships between self-knowledge and career decision-making, and occupational exploration as well as career decision-making. The result for testing invariance of a structural model for multi group analysis showed a validation model of self-knowledge, occupational exploration and career decision making. The findings from this study can be of great benefit to students, researchers, as well as the policy makers in the educational field.

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Factors Influencing Students’ Career Chooses in Science and Technology: Implications for High School Science Curricula

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Career Decision-Making Competence, Self-Knowledge, and Occupational Exploration: A Model for University Students

Career Decision-Making Competence, Self-Knowledge, and Occupational Exploration: A Model for University Students

Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

A Grounded Analysis towards Developing a Career Decision Making Competency Model for Students Employability

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