Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading  Processing Request

Exploring Students' Science-Related Career Awareness Changes through Concept Maps

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
اقرأ على الانترنت اقرأ أكثر حفظ في قائمتي
  • المؤلفون: Kotkas, Tormi (ORCID Kotkas, Tormi (ORCID 0000-0001-7186-973X); Holbrook, Jack (ORCID Holbrook, Jack (ORCID 0000-0002-1642-8701); Rannikmäe, Miia
  • المصدر:
    Education Sciences. 2021 11.
  • الموضوع:
    2021
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • المصدر:
      24
    • Education Level:
      Junior High Schools
      Middle Schools
      Secondary Education
    • الموضوع:
      Concept Mapping; Middle School Students; Early Adolescents; Student Attitudes; Intervention; Longitudinal Studies; Science Careers; Career Awareness; Career Education; Science Education; Program Effectiveness; Job Skills; Gender Differences; Public Schools; Competence; Foreign Countries
    • الموضوع:
      Estonia
    • ISSN:
      2227-7102
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The current article addressed middle school (13-15 years old) students' science-related career awareness (SCA) and aimed to determine the effects of a longitudinal intervention, which focused on integrating career education into science teaching, using a pre- and post-test design. During the intervention, five teaching/learning modules (TLMs) were implemented in science lessons that enabled students to experience being (1) an electrical engineer, (2) a food technologist, (3) a forensic scientist or a civil engineer, (4) a team member of oil catastrophe simulation clean-up team, and (5) a customs' officer. Concept mapping was used to determine the changes in students' SCA. The suitability of this technique was validated through semi-structured focus group interviews. It was found that concept mapping enabled detection of progression in the intervention students' SCA among both boys and girls. The interviews provided valuable input on how students interpreted science-related occupations and relevant competences, when constructing their concept maps. An implication from this study was that SCA supportive teaching and learning modules or other similar teaching methods needed to be an inherent part of science teaching to support students making well informed decisions, either towards or away from science-related careers.
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      As Provided
    • الموضوع:
      2021
    • الرقم المعرف:
      EJ1293358