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THE CAREER RELATED PLANS OF ROMANIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM TECHNICAL AND THEORETICAL HIGH SCHOOLS
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This study proposes to analyze the socioeconomic background of the senior high school students from the two main educational tracks from Romania (theoretical and technical), their career related expectations as well as the factors with effect on the education and career related plans of these students. The sample analyzed is nationally representative and is composed of 3509 high school students in their final school year (12th grade), who were surveyed in the first wave of the research "Outcomes of Adolescence. A longitudinal perspective on the effect of social context on successful life transitions". The results show that students in technical high schools are in higher proportion disadvantaged , have poorer school results and lower occupational expectations than their counterparts in theoretical high schools. More than 20% of technical high school students do not know what occupation they will have at the age of 30. Binary logistic regression was used to identify the effect of school results and occupational expectations on work and education related plans of the students. The GPA predicts significantly if the adolescents plan to be students next year, but school deviancy, poor results at some disciplines, not. Expecting to be a professional or skilled worker predicts the plans for the next year.
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