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Direct linkChristopher Lee Clifford – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to explore how low socioeconomic status (SES), minority, adult high school graduates describe the influence of their parents, program activities, and possible employment opportunities in pursuing Career and Technical Education/Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (CTE) courses in a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Course Selection (Students), Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Students
Barnes, Susan Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2012
University honors programs emerged in the 1920s, growing to over 1,000 programs in existence today. Honors programs provide enhanced educational opportunities to students who excel academically. University honors students are experts who effectively apply metacognitive knowledge, strategies, and experiences to enhance academic behavior. Although…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Honors Curriculum, Educational Opportunities, Learning Strategies
Ureksoy, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Increasing women's participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) can promote a healthy economy by ensuring a diverse and well-qualified STEM workforce, not only in the quantity of females in the workforce, but diversity in thinking and creativity. It will also send a positive message to young women about…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Socialization, Females, Persistence
Peer reviewedBickel, Robert; Lange, Linda – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Building on previous data, researchers used West Virginia school district data to investigate the value of examining structurally determined opportunities and costs to explain high school students' dropping out. The study interpreted dropping out as a rational consequence of students' assessments of the opportunities and costs associated with…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Economic Opportunities
Peer reviewedBickel, Robert – Youth and Society, 1989
Replicates a Florida study of high school students' decisions to drop out using data for West Virginia. Confirms earlier findings that the decision to drop out is based on the student's perceptions of the economic opportunities obtained by a high school diploma. (FMW)
Descriptors: Dropouts, Economic Opportunities, Multiple Regression Analysis, Outcomes of Education
Download full textCommission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
These reports on school integration in Pasadena (California), Tampa-Hillsborough (Florida), Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem/Forsyth (North Carolina), and Pontiac (Michigan) are based on interviews and material gathered by Commission on Civil Rights staff members from January 10, 1972, through March 29, 1972. In each school district staff…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Peer reviewedBickel, Robert; Papagiannis, George – Youth and Society, 1988
Analyzes the effects of high school students' economic prospects on high school completion rates for 67 Florida school districts. Concludes that students' decisions to drop out or complete high school may be influenced by their perceptions of the economic advantages that accompany a diploma. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, County School Districts, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
