The second part of a revised series of bibliographic listings relating to the study of educational status projections (aspirations and expectations) of youth is presented. The original bibliographic listings were accomplished in 1966 and were updated in 1967. The current document replaces Part II of the 1967 report and contains an additional 98…

The paper represents a continuing effort at correcting misleading myths about the aspirations and expectations of disadvantaged rural youth. Useless or harmful policies and programs may result from the following erroneous assumptions: (1) that rural youth have low level aspirations for attainment; (2) that disadvantaged youth have low level…

Forty-nine research reports published between 1947 and 1968 are listed and annotated for researchers interested in status projections of rural youth. The annotations are designed to point out areas of conflicting findings, unresearched problems, weaknesses in method, and areas of agreement in past findings. The entries are indexed by content and…

The status projections of high school sophomores residing in rural East Texas were surveyed in spring of 1972. Focus was on their aspirations and expectations for status attainment in occupation, education, income, and type of place of residence. In each area, four elements of status projections were examined: aspiration level, expectation level,…

The report provided findings from a recent Texas study of historical change in educational status projections of rural Black and White teenage boys and girls. The specific research objectives were to determine: (1) the nature and extent of historical change patterns occurring, by race, for educational aspiration, expectation, anticipatory goal…

Historical change in occupational and educational status projections of Texas rural Mexican American teenage boys and girls between 1967 and 1973 were examined. The study determined the nature and extent of historical change patterns occurring among these youth in reference to the following dimensions of occupational and educational status…

The study investigated whether Mexican American male and female migrants differed from Mexican American male and female non-migrants in reference to: level and type of occupational and educational aspirations and expectations; projected age of marriage and procreation; and valuation of life goals. Using data gathered in a 1973 survey of Mexican…

The findings of 3 studies on the patterns of use of Spanish among Mexican American boys and girls and the relationship between an index of use of Spanish and level of aspiration were compared in this paper. The studies were conducted in South Texas during the spring of 1967, in El Paso during the spring of 1973, and in Southern Colorado during the…

Results of surveys (in 1967, 1973, and 1978-1979) of nonmetropolitan Mexican American high school sophomores from South Texas indicated that, although broad similarities existed between males and females, there were also specific patterned gender differences in social behavior and orientations. In status projection levels, particularly educational…