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The Effect of Athletic Participation on the Academic Aspirations and Achievement of African American Males in a New York City High School.
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Anderson, S. Kareem – Journal of Negro Education, 1990
Attempts to determine the following: (1) whether African American students participating in sports on the high school varsity level hold and/or are being hurt by unrealistic athletic aspirations; and (2) how levels of athletic and academic aspirations affect future goals of African American student athletes. Finds no clear evidence of detrimental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Athletes, Athletics
On the Decline of the Achievement Orientation of High School Females.
Schneider, Frank W.; Coutts, Larry M. – 1984
Based on the evidence and theory that sex-role differentiation increases in salience during those later high school years as students prepare for their imminent transition into young adulthood, it was anticipated that there would be a lower orientation toward achievement among grade 12 girls than grade 10 girls, and, possibly, the opposite for…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Achievement Need, Adolescents, Anxiety
The Relationship of School Racial Context and Students Background Characteristics upon Anglo, Black, and Hispanic Secondary School Student's Educational Aspirations and Expectations.
Iadicola, Peter – 1980
The impact of school racial context (percentage of Anglo students in school and degree of Anglo peer group integration) and student background characteristics (sex, race, educational attainment of father of school racial context differed for Blacks intentions was addressed. A random subsample of Anglo (1,367), Black (1,172), and Hispanic (430)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Blacks