Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Samuel D. Johnson. Dissertation Committee: Winthrop Adkins. Bibliography: leaves 95-102.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1978. / Title from title page screen, viewed Jan. 14, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Elwood F. Egelston (chair), David L. Livers, Kathryn W. Smith, Joe E. Talkington, Clayton F. Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-144) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-131).

Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Nursing, Durban University of Technology, 2014. / Globally there is recognition of a health workforce crisis characterised by critical shortages, migration, and an uneven geographical distribution of health professionals. The Nursing Strategy for South Africa records that for many decades nursing has been a career of choice for South Africans from all sectors of society (Department of Health 2008: 11). That has changed as nursing has become less appealing to learners. This raises questions as to the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of learners towards the nursing profession. Aim of the study : The aim of the study was to determine factors influencing high school learners towards nursing as a career. Methodology : A descriptive cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative design was used to guide the study. The study was conducted in two high schools that were purposely sampled; the population comprised of high school learners from the two schools. Questionnaires were used to collect data from Grades 10 and 11. Life Orientation subject teachers were interviewed during data collection. Quantitative data was analysed by using SPSS. Qualitative data was analysed by using thematic analysis. Results : The findings of this study revealed that learners had inadequate knowledge of nursing. Interviews with teachers showed that this inadequate knowledge by learners could be associated with a lack of active involvement of the Department of Health in promoting nursing as a career.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2002. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-160). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Rapidly changing social and economic conditions can impart significant challenges to high school career decisions. Recent career education initiatives have been structured to support this school-to-work and school-to-post-secondary education transition. The student needs assessment focus of study allows a unique insight into the availability, delivery, and effectiveness of high school career programs. This research provides data from a nineteen-item Comprehensive Career Needs Survey, administered to 888, Southern Alberta grade 12 students. The results profile the student responses to questions on career plans after high school the meaning of occupation and career, career choice, reasons for career choice the importance of career planning, factors of encouragement and discouragement in career plans, and what would be most helpful in career plans. Questions on career hlep included the availability, use, and helpfulness of high school services, curriculum and resources, the peple helpful to career, the confidence in career plans after high school and the preferred work location. The results of this study suggest grade 12 students value career plans and the resources both people and informational, to support transitions. These students voice the need to have passion for career, and report a wide range of occupational choices. The large majority who plan post-secondary education or training expressed the need for diverse but specific career development services to support success in career. High school career development resources are available but the efficacy data suggest their under utilization or reports of not being fully helpful to career plans. An important finding is that career resources are used in the school setting but not the community. The results of this study have implications for the delivery of high school career programs and the development of the public policy on career services. / x, 149 leaves ; 29 cm.

This study documents and analyses Aboriginal post-secondary students' perceptions of selected influences on their career development and planning. Six areas are examined: 1) parental influence; 2) teacher influence; 3) peer influence; 4) ethnic and gender expectations; 5) academic self-efficacy; and 6) the role of negative social events. A questionnaire based on the Career Interest Inventory (Fisher & Stafford, 1999) was administered to 150 undergraduate students. Three factors were significant for this population: 1) positive influence in the form of support from parents, teachers, peers, and students' academic experiences and self-efficacy; 2) negative social events in the context of having friends in trouble with the law, addictions, teen pregnancy, indifference to schooling, dropping out of high school, and deaths of friends; and 3) ethnic and gender expectations emanating from parents and teachers. Based on these findings, directions for further research, and implications for counselors and educators, are outlined. / viii, 63 leaves ; 29 cm.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005. / Title from PDF title page screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-284)

Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations are largely dependent on their workforce in order to be successful and competitive. In order to do accomplish this goal, employees need to be motivated and feel satisfaction in their jobs. Employees who are unhappy in their work will be unproductive and eventually become a cost to their employers. Employees who have made the wrong career choice are more likely to be unhappy in the workplace and it is therefore very important to make the correct career choice from the beginning. In South Africa, the choice of a career usually occurs when one is still in Grade 11 or Grade 12. Unfortunately, career counselling is expensive and many learners’ parents do not have the financial capacity to afford career counselling, resulting in their children making a career choice based on the available information that they are able to access. These sources of information often are incorrect or incomplete, leading to a wrong career choice. At this stage, an adequate level of self-knowledge in order to make an informed career choice is not always present, either. Self-knowledge, consisting of personality, aptitude and interests, is an important construct necessary for making an informed career choice. The aim of this research study was to develop a group-based, low cost career counselling intervention for Grade 11 learners in schools where the learners would not otherwise be able to access career counselling, with the intention of increasing their self-knowledge. Three subtests of the Differential Aptitude Test, the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Meyers Interest Questionnaire were utilised in the intervention and self-knowledge was measured using a self-developed questionnaire based on the Career Development Questionnaire. The statistical results indicated that this intervention was successful in increasing self-knowledge, but it was also seen that the intervention led to an increase in career maturity.1 This group-based, relatively low-cost career-counselling intervention can therefore be offered to schools whose learners are not able to afford individual career counselling as it will assist learners, through increasing their self-knowledge and level of career maturity, in making a more informed career choice. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ondernemings is grootliks afhanklik van hul werknemers om suksesvol en kompeterend te wees. Vir ondernemings om hierdie doelwit te bereik, is dit belangrik dat hul werknemers gemotiveerd en tevrede in hul posisies moet wees. Werknemers wat ongelukkig in hul werk is, sal onproduktief wees en sal uiteindelik ‘n koste vir hul werkgewers word. Werknemers wat die verkeerde loopbaankeuse gemaak het, is meer geneig daartoe om ongelukkig in die werkplek te wees and daarom is dit baie belangrik om die regte loopbaankeuse van die begin af te maak. In Suid-Afrika is dit gewoonlik nodig om ‘n loopbaankeuse in Graad 11 of Graad 12 te maak. Loopbaanvoorligting is ongelukkig duur en baie leerders se ouers het nie die finansiële vermoë om loopbaanvoorligting vir hul kinders te bekostig nie. Dit lei daartoe dat hierdie leerders loopbaankeuses maak op grond van die inligting wat tot hulle beskikking is. Hierdie inligtingsbronne is in baie gevalle onvolledig of verkeerd, wat tot ‘n verkeerde keuse kan lei. Die voldoende vlak van selfkennis wat nodig is om ‘n ingeligte beroepskeuse te maak,is nie altyd op hierdie ouderdom teenwoording nie Selfkennis, wat uit persoonlikheid, aanleg en belangstellings saamgestel is, is ‘n belangrike konstruk wat nodig is om ‘n ingeligte beroepskeuse te maak. Die doel van hierdie navorsingstudie was om ‘n groepsgebaseerde, lae-koste loopbaanvoorligtingintervensie vir Graad 11-leerders te ontwikkel, met die doel om hul selfkennis te verhoog. Hierdie intervensie is gemik op skole waar leerders dit nie andersins sou kon bekostig om loopbaanvoorligting te bekom nie. Drie subtoetse van die Differensiële Aanlegtoets, die 16 Persoonlikheidsfaktor Vraelys, sowel as Meyer se Belangstellingsvraelys is in die intervensie gebruik. Selfkennis word gemeet deur die gebruik van ‘n self-ontwikkelde vraelys wat op die Loopbaanontwikkelingsvraelys gebaseer is. Die statistiese resultate het aangedui dat die intervensie suksesvol vir die verhoging van selfkennis aangewend kon word, maar daar is ook gevind dat die intervensie tot ‘n verhoging in loopbaanvolwassenheid gelei het.2 Hierdie groepsgebaseerde, loopbaanvoorligtingsintervensie kan daarom met redelik lae koste aan skole gebied word waar leerders nie loopbaanvoorligting kan bekostig nie, aangesien dit die leerders sal help om vanweë die verhoging van hul selfkennis en vlak van loopbaanvolwassenheid ‘n beter ingeligte beroepskeuse te maak.