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UC Davis Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2024)

Why Am I Here? is a mixed-methods study of the 9th graders at Capital College &Career Academy (CCCA). It focuses on the literature and research associated with Career Identity Formation and Career Construction Theory. This literature illuminates adolescents' process in developing their identity vis-a-vis their professional path and how identity directs it. The literature discusses the iterative process of career development that revolves around the narrative people construct about themselves and their experiences to arrive at a professional path.

The research for this study focused on CCCA’s unique career education program. Theresearch sought to explore the linkage between the school’s career experience program and student response to the program. The study relies on qualitative interviews with six CCCA students, which developed five themes: Career Narrative, Curriculum and the Future, Future Career, College, and Family. The quantitative survey of all forty-six 9th graders was divided and analyzed into five categories: Attitudes Towards School, Career Confidence, Extrinsic Motivation, Intrinsic Motivation, and CCCA Program Associations. The findings revealed overall positive associations with the school’s career experience program and clear support for an emerging career identity among the students.

Through the exploration of student associations with the CCCA Career Experienceprogram and an investigation of the purpose of charter schools, California’s commitment to Career Technical Education, and by placing the development of CCCA in a historical context, Why Am I Here? explores the need for enhanced career education in our public schools.

    Cover page: Why Am I Here? Making Career Education a Focal Point of Secondary Education
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    UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2016)
    The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques has defined modern neuroimaging. Since its inception, tens of thousands of studies using techniques such as functional MRI and diffusion weighted imaging have allowed for the non-invasive study of the brain. Despite the fact that MRI is routinely used to obtain data for neuroscience research, there has been no widely adopted standard for organizing and describing the data collected in an imaging experiment. This renders sharing and reusing data (within or between labs) difficult if not impossible and unnecessarily complicates the application of automatic pipelines and quality assurance protocols. To solve this problem, we have developed the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a standard for organizing and describing MRI datasets. The BIDS standard uses file formats compatible with existing software, unifies the majority of practices already common in the field, and captures the metadata necessary for most common data processing operations.
      Cover page: The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experimentsCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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