Relationships between Academic Comfort and Career Interests among Rural High School Students

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-466
Author(s):  
Ann K. Mullis ◽  
Ronald L. Mullis ◽  
John C. Brailsford
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Career Motivation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interest Inventory ◽  
Holland's Theory ◽  
Significant Relationships

Relationships between Academic Comfort and General Occupational Themes of the 1985 Strong Campbell Interest Inventory were investigated for 1364 high school adolescents. Significant relationships between Academic Comfort and grade, sex, socioeconomic status, and career motivation were found. Academic Comfort scores of adolescents increased with higher grades and girls had higher Academic Comfort scores than the boys at ail grades. The results support Holland's theory of career development during the high school years in that certain career interests during this period of development are related to Academic Comfort.

scholarly journals Relationship between High School Student Participation in State-level Future Farmers of America Career Development Events and Matriculation at the Host University: A Case Study in Horticulture at Kansas State University

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 862-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Williams ◽  
Chad T. Miller ◽  
Ward Upham
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Farmers Of America ◽  
State University ◽  
School Students ◽  
Kansas State University ◽  
Career Development Events

In recent years, many horticulture departments around the United States have been concerned with recruiting and retaining an adequate number of students. One potential recruitment opportunity is the horticulture Future Farmers of America (FFA) Career Development Events (CDEs). For the time period of 1999 to 2012 (14 years), 1462 students participated in the annual state-level horticulture contests, comprising floriculture and nursery/landscape CDEs, held at Kansas State University (KSU). Using the rosters from these two CDEs, we referenced the university’s student information database to determine whether the high school students who participated as FFA horticulture CDE contestants ultimately matriculated to KSU. Fifty-two percent of former FFA horticulture CDE participants were accepted to KSU and 32% matriculated. Of these, 58% enrolled in the College of Agriculture and 19% majored in horticulture. Therefore, 3.5% of total horticulture CDE participants majored in horticulture at KSU. Students who participated in more than one horticulture CDE over time were more likely to major in horticulture at KSU compared with students who competed only once. Thirty-nine percent of students who participated in both horticulture CDEs pursued a baccalaureate program in horticulture. These two student characteristics could be used as indicator data points to target recruitment of future horticulture students. Data about the high school programs that generated contest participants were also summarized. Exceling in the CDE contests was not an indicator CDE participants would pursue a baccalaureate degree in horticulture. These analyses suggest FFA CDEs have some potential to optimize student recruitment efforts.

scholarly journals “It’s Never Too Late”: High School Counselors’ Support of Underrepresented Students’ Interest in STEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Autumn L. Cabell ◽  
Dana Brookover ◽  
Amber Livingston ◽  
Ila Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Underrepresented Students ◽  
High School Counselors ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
School Students ◽  
Diversity In Stem

The purpose of this study was to contribute to the literature surrounding school counselors and their support of underrepresented high school students who are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The influence of context on school counseling was also explored, in particular practicing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this phenomenological study, nine high school counselors were individually interviewed, and four themes emerged. These themes were: (a) professional knowledge surrounding issues of diversity in STEM, (b) training related to the needs of underrepresented students in STEM, (c) active engagement in supporting underrepresented students’ STEM career interests, and (d) barriers related to supporting underrepresented students’ STEM interests. This article includes implications for (a) how school counselors can support underrepresented students’ STEM interests, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) how counselor educators can contribute to STEM-related research and training; and (c) how school administrators can support school counselors’ STEM initiatives.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Career Development of High School Students in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
pp. 089484531983052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Li ◽  
Wei-Cheng Joseph Mau ◽  
Shr-Jya Chen ◽  
Tzu-Chi Lin ◽  
Ting-Yu Lin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

scholarly journals Evaluation Of Career Guidance Program In Vocational High School

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 00093
Author(s):  
Sri Tutur Martaningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Guidance Program

Career success is the achievement and self-actualization of the individual in his chosen career path. Understanding self-potentials and self-weaknesses, choice suitability, readiness and decisions, and understanding career development are expected to support individual career success. Facilitating the preparation of individual career development needs to be pursued for individual careers optimal development to benefit themselves and many others. Vocational high school students armed with relevant job competences, prepared for working after graduation. On the other hand, vocational high school graduates are still in their adolescent age with the development stage of search for identity, not yet thinking about career, so they needed more intensive career insight briefing through career guidance. Career guidance in vocational high school should be able to build students’ career readiness, and the maturity in their adolescent age which is relatively unstable in their socio-emotional. This review of career guidance program evaluation is conducted qualitatively through surveys, interviews and leiterature studies to provide an overview of evaluation program and its relevance to the necessity. Understanding the quality, weaknesses, obstacles to service implementation, and potential utilization are expected to improve career guidance effectiveness services in vocational high school. An evaluation on the overall career guidance program, will provide feedback for ongoing improvement. Various evaluation models are available, it needs to be selected about the relevance to the career counseling program characteristics, so that evaluation feedback is more optimal.

scholarly journals INTEREST GROUP SESSION—INTERGENERATIONAL LEARNING, RESEARCH, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: USING INNOVATIVE INTERGENERATIONAL STRATEGIES TO BOOST CAREERS IN AGING

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S567-S568
Author(s):  
Joann M Montepare ◽  
Laura K Donorfio
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Career Information ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Populations are aging dramatically, and call for higher education to be more age-friendly and pave the way for career paths in aging. The Careers in Aging Week (CIAW) program sponsored annually by the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) of GSA has been a core stimulus for building career interest – however, more could be done to strengthen and invigorate this effort. This symposium will show how intergenerational exchange can be used to mount interest in careers in aging and create new pipelines to gerontology programs in higher education. Examples of innovative approaches will demonstrate how career information can be communicated to students in more creative and compelling ways. The first paper will set the stage with an evidence-based overview of emerging areas for career development, and a presentation of career planning models to aid student understanding as to how to make aging career decisions. Two presentations will then focus on different aging-workforce initiatives aimed at building educational pipelines that connect high-school students with college students studying gerontology. In addition to highlighting the oft-overlooked population of high school students, attention will be given to the importance of including minority student populations in career development efforts. The final paper will describe the utility of broader intergenerational strategies that build bridges across students, educators, aging professionals, and community collaborators via campus career events. The discussant will bring these efforts together with an intergenerational programming lens that higher education can use to amplify awareness about the wide-range of career opportunities aging offers.

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