Research Article: Factors affecting students career choice of Science & engineering by Zhen Wang

Internal External

• Gender Difference • Science Background

• Interest in the subject • Parents' level of education & occupation
• perceived ability • Mathematics & science courses they have
• students belief in her/his ability taken
• Mathematics and science achievement • prerequsites for entrance to college &
• achievement in the end year examination universities
• performance in science • University requirments
• Students perception of their own • sets requirments for entrance to the
personality universities & institutes
• Self image • Attitudes towards school science
• image of the typical occupational • students experiments in class room & the
incumbent laboratory
• class room science activities
• extracurricular science experiences
• class
• Teacher
• Their significance, knowledge & activities
• Perception of the factors that influence
students
• Students Highschool background
• Mathematics & Science performance
• Grade 11 & 12 course selection & school
science experience
• job characteristics
• high income
• job security
• leisure opportunity
• job porspects
• promotion & prestige
• Family influence
• parents occupational & level of
education
• Students' home environment
• the atomosphere
• habbits
• hobbies
• value aquired by students growing up
with their parents
• Family responsibility
• ability or carrier motivation
• interpersonal barries
• social barriers