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Thieman, Erica B. Walker, Courtney Ashton 2018-09-04T20:26:43Z 2018-09-04T20:26:43Z 2018-03-21 2018-05 The U.S. workforce of today lacks qualified persons to fill the growing number of available jobs in agricultural fields. To address this problem, this study sought to examine the factors which contribute to a high school student’s career considerations. A survey of 817 high school agriculture students in Illinois supplied data for the study. Researchers then evaluated the data through a series of hierarchical logistic regression analyses. The trends in the data coupled with a review of previous work, provides insights to enable educators and agricultural advocates to build action-oriented solutions to place qualified persons in agricultural roles. Emergent themes focusing on providing diverse opportunities, personal connections, and mastery experiences in agricultural careers could drive strategy development to increase high school students’ attraction to agricultural careers. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-08-31 without embargo terms The student, Courtney Walker, accepted the attached license on 2018-03-20 at 15:08. The student, Courtney Walker, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-03-20 at 15:11. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-03-21 at 16:00. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12080 on 2018-08-31 at 17:10:08 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:26:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 WALKER-THESIS-2018.pdf: 366540 bytes, checksum: 2d8dd1564921250ba795132b635a3385 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: b761c78125d33f5ae4ae4fae7b19a1d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-21 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/100911 eng Copyright 2018 Courtney Walker agricultural education, agriculture, career development, high school education What do I want to be when I grow up? Exploring influencing factors on high school students’ agricultural career considerations text text Agricultural Education Program Agricultural Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.