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50 Years of ERIC
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Gamboa, Vitor; Paixao, Maria Paula; Neves de Jesus, Saul – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
The provision of workplace-based experiences (internship/placement) is an important component of the training program of students attending vocational education courses. Regarding the impact of such experiences on vocational development, research results are not conclusive enough, mainly, if we consider the theoretical expectation that work…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 12, Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Janeiro, Isabel Nunes – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Super (1990) proposed that the psychological determinants of career development attitudes are time perspective, self-esteem, and causal attributions. The present study analyzed the effects of these determinants on the career development attitudes of 320 students from grade 9 and 300 students from grade 12. The analysis of the data using structural…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Vocational Maturity, Time Perspective, Grade 9
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Lee, In Heok; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
Using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) data sets, the complex phenomenon of intra-individual and inter-individual differences in and the potential predictors of those differences on career aspirations development over a 12-year period was analyzed. Results indicated that 73.1% of the total growth (change) in adolescents'…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Adolescents, Young Adults, Occupational Aspiration
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Diemer, Matthew A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Critical career development tasks for adolescents include developing vocational expectations and a connection to the world of work. Given the sociopolitical barriers to the career development of poor Youth of Color, it is vital to identify contextual resources facilitative of their career development. The present study examines the impact of…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Intervention, Grade 12, Career Development
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Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
This study investigated high school students' process of choosing a study in higher education, using a longitudinal design. A sample of 535 adolescents participated at the beginning, middle, and end of Grade 12. Latent curve modeling revealed evidence for a mean developmental increase in the career decisional tasks of orientation, exploration,…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescents, Grade 12, Decision Making
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Tracey, Terence J. G.; Robbins, Steven B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
RIASEC interests were assessed in grades 8, 10, and 12 on a large national sample of 69,987 college bound students. Random samples of 1000 were drawn to represent each of the major US ethnic groups (African, Asian, Native, Mexican, Latino (non Mexican), Anglo, and Multiracial Americans) and interests were examined as they varied across time,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Secondary School Students, Student Interests, Vocational Interests
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Tracey, Terence J. G.; Robbins, Steven B.; Hofsess, Christy D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
The pattern of RIASEC interests and academic skills were assessed longitudinally from a large-scale national database at three time points: eight grade, 10th grade, and 12th grade. Validation and cross-validation samples of 1000 males and 1000 females in each set were used to test the pattern of these scores over time relative to mean changes,…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Student Interests, Grade 12