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Gibbons, Melinda M.; Borders, L. DiAnne – Professional School Counseling, 2010
Many career and educational plans are made well before high school graduation. School counselors' efforts to support these plans are limited by the lack of assessments of middle school students' college-going beliefs. Development of the College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale for middle school students is described in this article. Initial evidence of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), School Counselors
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Gizir, Cem Ali; Aydin, Gul – Professional School Counseling, 2009
This article examines the potential individual characteristics and environmental protective factors that promote academic resilience among impoverished eighth-grade students in Turkey. Study results revealed that home high expectations, school caring relationships and high expectations, and peer caring relationships were the prominent external…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Student Characteristics, Poverty, Academic Aspiration