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Alexander S. Browman; Ryan C. Svoboda; Mesmin Destin – Grantee Submission, 2022
Despite barriers to educational attainment, low-SES youth often maintain strong academic intentions and performance if they continue to view school as important for obtaining the desired futures they envision for themselves. We undertook three related studies to examine the importance of one aspiration central to the desired futures of many…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Socioeconomic Background, Motivation, Self Concept
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Nienhusser, H. Kenny; Oshio, Toko – Research in Higher Education, 2017
High school students' accuracy in estimating the cost of college (AECC) was examined by utilizing a new methodological approach, the absolute-deviation-continuous construct. This study used the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) data and examined 10,530 11th grade students in order to measure their AECC for 4-year public and private…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Private Colleges, Public Colleges