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Stone, Ashley – College and University, 2018
This exploratory case study examined how college-bound seniors from a rural community formed their personal system of values and how those values informed choices concerning higher education. Furthermore, this article considers implications for outreach and recruitments strategies in rural communities as well as support once rural students arrive…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Values
Boydstun, Kelli Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how the GEAR-Up college readiness program influenced the postsecondary decisions of Hispanic students who participated in the GEAR-Up program for the recommended six-year period in a rural school district in Texas. It was not known how long-term participation in the GEAR-Up program at a rural school…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Youth, Hispanic American Students, Program Effectiveness
Stapleton, Richard C. – 1969
Because of declining prices for sorghum and cotton, increased operating costs, and reduction in the underground water level, opportunities for male high school graduates in the Southern Plains region have declined in recent years. The study collected data on migration patterns of males who graduated during the 1953-63 period by surveying high…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Economic Opportunities, Farmers, High School Graduates
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Borman, Christopher – Journal of Career Education, 1981
Describes how the author worked with some rural Texas school districts to help plan and implement career guidance programs. A plan for developing an exemplary career guidance model for rural youth is also discussed. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Models, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Miller, Michael V. – Rural Sociology, 1976
Following the thesis that variations in ethnic identification reflect social differentiation within the Mexican American population, this paper sought to: (1) delineate primary terms for ethnic self-identification among youths residing in a relatively homogeneous area of South Texas, (2) test the generalizability of past findings, and (3) examine…
Descriptors: Ethnic Grouping, Labeling (of Persons), Language Usage, Mexican Americans
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dameron, Jane – 1970
The hypotheses to be tested by this study were (1) that Negro youth are more positively oriented toward participation in military service than white youth and (2) that lower class youth with high aspirations are more positively oriented toward military service than other youth. Respondents were male high school sophomores from 3 schools located in…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks
Thomas, Katheryn A.; Jacob, Nelson L. – 1970
In this longitudinal study of rural adolescent males (Negro and white), 3 hypotheses were tested: (1) that occupational and educational aspirations of these youth will either be stable at a low level or change downward from higher levels over time, (2) that Negro youth will experience significantly more downward deflection of status projections…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Differences, Educational Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies
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Falk, William W.; Cosby, Arthur G. – Integrated Education, 1975
Information obtained by combining data collected from a panel of high school sophomores (1966) and seniors (1968) with a recent post-high school follow-up (1972) is used to address the question: Do youth, both whites and blacks, who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Desegregation Effects, Educational Attitudes, High School Students
KUVLESKY, WILLIAM R.; PELHAM, JOHN – 1966
PRESENTED ARE ABSTRACTS AND EVALUATIVE COMMENTARIES OF 47 PUBLISHED, EMPIRICAL RESEARCH FINDINGS ON OCCUPATIONAL STATUS ORIENTATIONS OF RURAL YOUTH. THE ANNOTATIONS ARE LIMITED TO ONLY THOSE ASPECTS OF THE FINDINGS BEARING DIRECTLY ON OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION, OCCUPATIONAL EXPECTATION, AND ANTICIPATORY DEFLECTION FROM OCCUPATIONAL GOALS. EACH…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Career Choice, Economic Status, Occupational Information
Cosby, Arthur G.; Ohlendorf, George W. – 1973
Educational and occupational status projections are conceptualized as mobility linked social psychological components of more general status attainment models. Limitations of such submodels are noted and a rationale is offered. Investigating the stability and reciprocal linkage of 2 status projection variables in a subset of a Southern Youth…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Employment Opportunities
Dowdell, Randall S. – 1973
The scope of this paper covered preliminary analyses and findings on historical change in occupational aspirations, occupational expectations, and intensity and aspiration of black and white Southern youths from an East Texas rural high school. Comparisons were made by race and sex only to illuminate historical changes. Surveys of approximately…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Area Studies, Aspiration, Black Youth
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1972
Identical instruments and procedures were used to collect data on military orientations from 98 Black boys who attended predominantly Black high schools in nonmetropolitan East Texas and 111 Blacks attending an all-Black high school in Houston, Texas, during the spring, 1966. The hypotheses tested were (1) that nonmetropolitan Black boys have more…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks
Linden, Mary Frances – 1992
This study examined patterns of alcohol consumption by students in a rural Texas high school. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted with students, teachers, and parents. Discussions were conducted and taped during a planned "Alcohol Awareness Week." Teacher and parent responses were sought to questions directed at their feelings…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, High School Students, High Schools
1968
According to Hyman's theory concerning the value systems of different classes, Negroes and whites are not likely to place similar emphasis upon economic success; other writers have indicated that the racial identity of the Negro limits his aspirations for job placement and opportunity. This 1966 study sttempts to measure the job opportunity…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Opportunities, Comparative Analysis, Employment Opportunities
Oberle, Wayne H. – 1971
The objective of this paper was to investigate the utility of the Ginzberg developmental model for explaining differences in the types or occupational status of the role models of Negro and white rural youth at two stages of adolescence. Data were obtained from 484 youth residing in East Texas in their sophomore and senior years in high school. In…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Decision Making Skills, Ethnic Studies
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