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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"career path"”.
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Career path analysis of professionals selected by MIT undergraduates
… about job duration, graduate school, and career paths in general, many undergraduates enter the real world unsure of what the future holds, or if what they have decided to do post-graduation is the "best" option. As such, MIT undergraduates in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities …
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Strategic factors for implementing a multiple career path construction doctoral program: a mixed methods study
… graduates prefer employment in non-academic career paths such as industry due to diminishing opportunities in academia. However, the doctoral education in the U.S. is designed to prepare graduates to become researchers and teachers for careers in academia. There is limited training available …
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Perceptions of Public School Teachers Regarding the Effectiveness of the Career Path System Evaluation Instrument in the Bahamas
… of their evaluation instrument, the Career Path System, in the Bahamas.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. The research population consisted of two categories of public school teachers: (a) level of teachers—elementary and secondary teachers, and (b) status of teachers— evaluated and …
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Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
… In the late twentieth-century, a clear quartet “career path” emerged which was supported by a variety of resources from graduate degrees in string quartet, which were created specifically to develop student string quartets into professional ensembles, to competitions and governmental financial …
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A career path study of women managers in the service industry of higher education and women managers in the hospital industry in the midwest
The purpose of the study was to examine the career paths of women managers in the service area of higher education and women managers in the hospital industry service area. A secondary purpose was to identify factors that influence the advancement of women managers in those areas.This research …
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Exploring connections between pre-service teachers' expectations of their career pathways and the lived experience of novice teachers of that career path as it transpires
… motivations and expectations of their teaching career. Phase two involves a thematic analysis of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with six volunteers from the original nineteen participants from phase one, conducted seven years after the workshop, when the participants were in their early …
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Career Path Influences and Identification of College and University Presidents: A Study of the Presidents of the Member Institutions of the Virginia Foundations for Independent Colleges
… how men and women who do not have an initial career goal of becoming a college or university president end up in such a position.The study was to gather information on the internal and external influences on that career path, and how each participant fits within presidential career patterns …
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Career Paths to the Texas Public School Superintendency
This study focused on the identification of career paths that led to the Texas public school superintendency, including an examination of career path differences associated with gender, ethnicity, and district type, and on the identification of the career path positions superintendents perceived as …
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A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding the Attrition of Women in Software Engineering
… attrition of women in the software engineering career path is important because the representation of women in the field is already so small, so any attrition is consequential. Overall, many factors were found to have influenced the retention of women in software engineering roles. Notably, …
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Modeling Aspects of Military Readiness
… readiness. Chapter 3 models the impact of career path design policy on personnel readiness. To develop leaders for future assignments, the military implements career path design policy that restricts the sequencing and timing of an individual's assignments. Overly restrictive policy can …
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Why engineering? : descriptive study mapping the motivations of aspiring engineers
… but not all students choose engineering as a career path for the promise of jobs. In order to further understand their motivations, ten engineering students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were interviewed and eighteen others completed an online survey pertaining to their …
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Becoming Vegetarian: An Analysis of the Vegetarian Career Using an Integrated Model of Deviance
… deviance theories in order to outline the career path of vegetarianism. Using semi-structured interviews with 45 practicing vegetarians from two regions of the United States, the career path of the vegetarians was developed around David Matza's (1969) theory of becoming deviant. Within each …
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Relationship of Cognitive and Noncognitive Factors of Prematriculation and Undergraduate Medical Education and Medical Student Specialty/residency Selection
… since the choice defines typically a life long career path for each student, and in part, the medical services delivered to society. The current investigation attempted to identify some of the cognitive and noncognitive factors that occur before and during undergraduate medical education and …
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The Impact of on the Job Training on Employee’s Performance: The case of Secondary School Teachers in Songea Municipality
… his/her present job after training and seeing a Career Path in one’s Present Job are strongly correlated. Hence, we confirm that on-work training is a key factor to good performance, career path and job security. Once an employee is trained, he gains opportunity to enhance his performance, his …
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Career Patterns of State Directors: Federal and State Level Leadership for Community College Systems
… characteristics, skills, and overarching career patterns of state directors of two-year college systems. Second, the study investigates whether those career patterns differ by college system governance model. Third, the study expands current knowledge of the professional developmental …
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Choice, Chance, or Circumstance: A Qualitative Study of Never-Married and Once-Married Women's Marriage Beliefs in Midlife
… on singlehood has often focused on middle-class career women, little is known about the life experiences of non-career path single women. This study examined the core marriage beliefs of never-married and once-married child-free, midlife women and the ways in which those beliefs have evolved over …
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Culture matters: factors affecting the persistence of European American and Asian women in two U.S. engineering doctoral programs
… to persistence on an engineering educational career path. In the second chapter, factors that participants perceived as promoting their persistence on an engineering educational and career path are described, including both external support structures and psychological factors that motivate …
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Development of a survey for understanding the careers of engineering professionals
… project is to devise a way to learn about the careers of professionals in positions that undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are likely to aspire to enter. A survey was developed to be conducted over the summer of 2015 by MIT sophomores who are on summer internships to …
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X, Y ir Z kartų pedagogo profesijos pasirinkimą lemiantys veiksniai /
… the selection of teacher‘s profession as a career path in X, Y and Z generations. Objective of the investigation. To analyse and compare the factors affecting the selection of teacher‘s profession as a career path in X, Y and Z generations. Methodology. In order to achieve an empirical …
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