Country-level ICT career aspirations increased globally but unevenly between PISA 2018 and 2022, with most systems showing moderate gains and a minority declining¶
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q2 i? Most education systems experienced moderate increases in ICT career aspirations between 2018 and 2022, but a small number showed stagnation or declines. → Popa 2022
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Popa 2022¶
Popa, D. M., Oprea, S.-V., & Bâra, A. (2022). Learning after COVID-19 and the ICT career aspirations: Are students entering the AI era with weaker skills? Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies. [email protected]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27391 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.27391
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Descriptive analysis of harmonized country-level PISA 2018–2022 career-expectation data (Figures 2 and 15). The distribution is "positively skewed", with most changes between 0 and 2 percentage points; a right tail of large positive changes and some negative values indicate uneven growth.
"The distribution of country-level changes in students' interest in ICT-related careers between 2018 and 2022 is positively skewed, with most observations concentrated between 0 and 2 percentage points, indicating that most education systems experienced moderate increases in ICT career aspirations."
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Related Claims¶
- Digital skills are the only consistently positive predictor of ICT career aspiration growth, while teacher support and autonomy show negative standardized associations — related
- Changes in ICT career aspirations are not systematically linked to contemporaneous changes in other occupational domains — related
- Learning environment indicators only moderately discriminate between countries with high versus low ICT aspiration growth, with digital skills the strongest discriminant — related
- Simulated one-standard-deviation increases in autonomy yield only modest predicted changes in ICT career aspirations — related
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Country-level ICT career aspirations increased globally but unevenly between PISA 2018 and 2022, with most systems showing moderate gains and a minority declining |
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Country-level ICT career aspirations increased globally but unevenly between PISA 2018 and 2022, with most systems showing moderate gains and a minority declining |
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