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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Sodano, Sandro M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
Vocational interests and interpersonal dispositions have been well researched in adults from the perspectives of Holland's RIASEC (1997) model of interests and the Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC), respectively. Few studies have applied either model to children and no studies have examined their overlap in children. A vector fitting procedure was…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Personality, Competence, Grade 6
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Noack, Peter; Kracke, Barbel; Gniewosz, Burkhard; Dietrich, Julia – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
The study examines school and parental influences on adolescents' occupational exploration. Analyses of data from 859 6th, 8th, and 10th graders attending high- and lower-track high schools in the German federal state of Thuringia suggested more extensive exploration among students closer to the school-to-work transition. Besides cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Occupational Aspiration
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Howard, Kimberly A. S.; Walsh, Mary E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Children's conceptions of career choice and attainment were evaluated in two studies to test whether reasoning levels varied by grade level (Studies 1 and 2) and perspective-taking complexity (Study 2). Results indicated that younger children (Grade K) were more likely to use reasoning strategies associated with fantasy and magical thinking and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Careers, Kindergarten, Young Children