Research Notes

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In the 1980s, a lot of school reformers lamented the academic quality of students entering the teaching profession. But a pair of researchers say those critics ought to take a second look.

Catherine E. Cardina, an assistant professor at State University of New York College at Brockport, and John K. Roden, the director of technology for the Alexander, N.Y., school district, studied data from a nationally representative sample of 13,276 students who were high school seniors in 1992.

Besides having completed questionnaires on their career interests, all of the students in the sample had taken a battery of tests in...