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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Agricultural careers"”.
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Place matters: Geographic disparities and credential pathways to agricultural careers in Illinois
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Career Values and Perceptions of Agricultural Careers of Gifted and Talented Students in the Virginia Governor's School for Agriculture
… and misunderstanding about agriculture and careers in the agriculture arena. The testing process included a survey of career values called the Values Scale. This instrument was developed by Dorothy Nevill and Donald Super and last updated in 1989. The 106-question survey measured 21 personal …
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Factors That Influence How Participants of Virginia's Governor's School for Agriculture Think About, Perceive, and Engage With Agriculture and Agricultural Careers
… societal practices. Many of those challenges are agricultural in nature and include worldwide food insecurity, intensified greenhouse gas emissions resulting in climate change, major losses in biodiversity, substantial pressure on natural resources, and increasingly antimicrobial-resistant pests …
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What do I want to be when I grow up? Exploring influencing factors on high school students’ agricultural career considerations
… to fill the growing number of available jobs in agricultural fields. To address this problem, this study sought to examine the factors which contribute to a high school student’s career considerations. A survey of 817 high school agriculture students in Illinois supplied data for the study. …
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Urban Agricultural Education: Exploring Good Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Youth Into the Agricultural Industry.
The agricultural industry continues to face a shortage of qualified workers in high-skill, high-wage positions, while underrepresented youth remain largely excluded from agricultural education and careers. This study examines successful urban School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) programs that …
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Recruitment of Non-traditional Students to Agricultural Degrees
… institutions recruitment of non-traditional agricultural students to agricultural degrees. Only 1.3% of the U. S. population holds direct on-farm employment. As the population slowly becomes disconnected from traditional agricultural lifestyles, the challenge will be identifying new types of …
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Agriculture Without Farmers? Constructions of and Resistances to Whiteness in Two Midwestern Agricultural Education Classrooms
… in the Upper Midwest are preparing students for agricultural careers that are not about growing food. Vocational success leading to earning is prioritized over tangible agricultural experience that results in anything edible. I find contradictions in the term “production Ag” which does not …
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Perceived Inclusion of MANRRS Alumni in Agricultural Organizations: The Relationship Between Inclusion, Psychological Needs, and Intrinsic Motivation
… minority groups working in professional agricultural careers. This study sought to understand the relationship between basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) and motivation amongst minorities that both did and did not participate in the co-educational national …
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Motivational Factors Contributing to the Choice of Agriculturally Related Careers
… college students who have chosen to study in an agriculturally related field. A descriptive research design using an online questionnaire was used for this study to determine factors which influenced career choice. Likert scale items were used to determine how motivating certain factors were for …
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Core occupational competencies for secondary agricultural education programs as identified by Ohio agricultural business and industry
… core occupational competencies for secondary agricultural education programs as identified by Ohio agricultural business and industry. The method used to generate this information was an item analysis of the competencies that industry experts identified as core competencies in the Ohio …