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Eva Expósito-Casas; Ana González-Benito; Esther López-Martín – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
The purpose of this work is to identify contextual variables that help to explain the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students. This is done by performing a secondary analysis of the PISA2018 test. Data have been analysed using decision trees introducing the students' expected occupational status as a dependent variable (DV), and…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Covacevich, Catalina; Vargas, Jimena – OECD Publishing, 2021
Research has shown that foreign languages can be an important driver towards better job opportunities. This is more likely to be the case if young people take foreign languages into account when developing their career and educational expectations. These expectations depend greatly on the context and the opportunities students perceive to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
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Amengual Pizarro, Marian; García Laborda, Jesús – Online Submission, 2017
The main aim of this study was to examine the most relevant motivating factors (i.e. intrinsic, extrinsic and altruistic) influencing pre-service English school teachers to choose teaching as their profession. A small questionnaire was administered to 73 third-year student teachers at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Results indicate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning