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Max P. Jansen; Birgit Becker; Zerrin Salikutluk; Susanne Garritzmann; Sigrid Roßteutscher – Cogent Education, 2024
Students from a high socioeconomic background show relatively homogeneous, high levels of educational attainment, whereas students with a low socioeconomic origin display a large variability in their educational careers. In this paper, we examine whether the varying degrees of students' academic self-efficacy can contribute to an explanation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Academic Aspiration, Socioeconomic Background
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Pinquart, Martin; Juang, Linda P.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Career Development, 2004
In times of dramatic social change, new career options emerge and old options may become obsolete. We investigated predictors of change in general career aspirations and of plans to attend a university of East German adolescents from 1989 (before German unification) to 1991 and 1995, respectively, after German unification. Higher pre-unification…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Ability, Adolescents, Vocational Education
Stoeger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert – International Education Journal, 2005
The evaluation of an elementary classroom self-regulated learning program aimed at the central causes of academic underachievement is recounted. The participants of the study were 36 Fourth Grade gifted underachievers in mathematics, who were identified in a sample of 1200 students. The training program developed by Zimmerman, Bonner and Kovach…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Underachievement, Grade 4, Program Evaluation