The modifications teachers made when implementing lessons were incorporated into later versions most notably in the case of career activities, such as attending a "social mixer," participating in mock job interviews, and writing scientific abstracts and bioinformatics magazine articles.
Measures for career activity and career interests showed a high level of multicollinearity between the two sets of variables.
This career interest was listed in the top 2 favorites for career activities by 43.8% of students with high MSE score (between 4 and 5) compared to 36.0% of students with low MSE score (0 through 3) (χ2 = 6.558, df = 1, p = .01).01
Reading, study, analysis, and investigation was listed in the top 2 favorites for career activities by 36.5% of students who had high MSE scores (between 4 and 5) when compared to 28.4% of students with low MSE (0 through 3) (χ2 = 7.979, df = 1, p < .01).01
Interestingly, approximately 50% of participants selected their career interest as being "working with people," but relative to career activities, only one third of participants selected "helping people".
As with the results for career activities, these results show that most of the career interests were not significantly correlated with MSE and all of the career interests were rated in the top 2 favorites by less than half of the students.
Also, students who ranked career interests involving helping others were more likely to pursue STEM careers, but this analysis showed that student preference for career activities involving helping others and being concerned for their welfare was not a statistically significant indicator of their likelihood to pursue a STEM career.
Each of the career activities was then analyzed based on the percentage of students who rated it in their top 2 favorites.
Students were presented with a list of six career activities and asked to indicate which activities were in their top 2 favorites.
Results of the current study demonstrated that students in grades 7 and 9 had a broad range of favorite career activities with the majority (approximately 46%) stating that their strongest preference was for artistic and creative types of activities.
