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Rimkute, Laura; Hirvonen, Riikka; Tolvanen, Asko; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The present study examined the extent to which mothers' and fathers' expectations for their offspring's future education, their level of education, and adolescents' academic achievement predict adolescents' educational expectations. To investigate this, 230 adolescents were examined twice while they were in comprehensive school (in the 7th and 9th…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Parent Role, Grade 7
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Aunola, Kaisa; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
The present study examined what kinds of patterns of task-values adolescents show, and whether these patterns predict their educational and occupational expectations and school track. Six hundred and fourteen adolescents were examined twice before their transition to secondary education and once thereafter. The clustering-by-cases analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Pattern Recognition, Secondary Education