Abstract :
The study seeks to determine the extent to which teachers’ training to integrate technology in the curriculum as well as the students’ participation in mentoring programs, would have an effect on minority students’ perception of barriers for finding employment after secondary/higher education. The study, quantitative with a hierarchical logistic regression model, uses data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 from the National Center for Education Statistics, including a nationally representative cohort of minority high school students.The findings indicate that students who had mentoring programs available in their high schools, as well as those who participated in career-related mentoring in postsecondary institutions, recognized the role of having more connections social capital as a means to attaining employment.
Keyword :
Mentoring, Teacher Training, Technology in the Curriculum, Social Capital, Employment Barriers, Minority Students