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Peer reviewedOdell, Kerry S. – Research in Rural Education, 1989
Surveys educational and occupational expectations of students, grades 10 to 12, in four rural Ohio schools. Reports females show significantly higher educational and occupational aspirations than males. Areas of anticipated college study and occupational expectations are sex stereotypic; however, young rural women's occupational aspirations are…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, High Schools, Occupational Aspiration
Peer reviewedOdell, Kerry S. – Research in Rural Education, 1988
Finds that, among 491 rural tenth and twelfth grade students: (1) over 60 percent expected to attend college; (2) most aspired to occupations with higher status than their parents'; and (3) students' plans for advanced education were strongly related to parental expectations. Contains 18 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Educational Research, Grade 10, Grade 12
Odell, Kerry S. – 1989
This paper examines rural high school students' educational and occupational expectations and their relationships to personal, educational, school, and family characteristics. Questionnaires were distributed to all 10th and 12th graders in four small rural high schools in diverse geographic regions of Ohio. Almost all of the 491 respondents were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Family Characteristics, High Schools
