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Direct linkColby, Anne; Malin, Heather; Morton, Emily – Journal of College and Character, 2022
Public discourse often frames the value of undergraduate education in financial terms--credentialing and increased earning power. Students must prepare to be self-supporting, but are financial prospects their only important goals? We asked 1,500 students from 11 U.S. colleges to write about their goals, the reasons their goals were important, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Paat, Yok-Fong – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
This article examines the aspiration-attainment gap and educational resilience among children of Mexican immigrants in the midst of the post-1965 U.S. demographic transformation. Two widespread theoretical explanations are used to understand the educational disparities faced by this subpopulation: the cultural argument, which emphasizes their…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Gap
Download full textIngels, Steven J.; Dalton, Ben – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report provides a first look at selected findings from the first follow-up of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). HSLS:09 focuses on understanding students' trajectories from the beginning of high school into higher education and the workforce. The core research questions for the
study explore secondary to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Aragon, Steven R.; Alfeld, Corinne; Hansen, David M. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent do CTSOs affect student psychosocial and achievement outcomes (above and beyond stand-alone CTE programs) when controlling for gender and race. Using a cross-sectional descriptive research design, a total of 5,677 students from 10 states were surveyed regarding their high school…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Student Organizations, Academic Achievement
Ingels, Steven J.; Dalton, Ben; Holder, Tommy E., Jr.; Lauff, Erich; Burns, Laura J. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This First Look presents findings from the base-year survey of the newly launched High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), the first round of a study that will follow a ninth-grade cohort through high school and into their postsecondary years. HSLS:09 is the fifth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) high school…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, High School Students, Student Characteristics
Gold, Ben K. – 1979
Los Angeles City College (LACC) is one of 15 California community colleges participating in a three-year longitudinal study designed to provide information on vocational education students, and student characteristics in general, as well as information about the efficacy of small sampling and methods most useful for long-term studies. Data in the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Community Colleges, Educational Background, Enrollment Trends
