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Download full textDrabick, Lawrence W. – 1974
The paper illustrates time-series variation in educational expectations of high school seniors. Two contentions pertaining to educational expectations have been that (1) the expectations of youth as a whole are rising, and (2) the traditional variance between rural and urban youth are depreciating. Based on data obtained from North Carolina high…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Education, Expectation, High School Seniors
Broadnax, Jannie; Wright, Doris J.; Martin, Rhonda – 1998
Researchers estimate that more than half of the nation's six million young drinkers have problems with alcohol. Of those young drinkers, some reside in rural communities and towns. Little is known about how teen drinking occurs among rural teens. A pilot study was undertaken to discover how teens in rural settings are involved with drinking.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Drinking, High School Seniors
Stuart, Nina G.; Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1974
Historical changes reflected in the educational goals of black and white high school seniors in 1966 and 1972 were compared. The five orientation dimensions studied were aspiration, expectation, goal deflection, goal certainty, and goal intensity. Data were collected in the four contiguous Northeast Alabama counties of Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Blacks
Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1975
As part of a larger effort to determine marital and procreative trends in the South, an historical comparison was made of two samples of Northeast Alabama high school seniors. Similar questionnaires were group administered to all seniors present on the prescribed contact day in 19 randomly selected high schools in 1966 and again in 1972. The study…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis
Vollmer, Maria A.; Hedlund, Dalva E. – 1994
Seventeen adolescents from four rural high schools in upstate New York were interviewed while in the 12th grade and again a year later. Interviews focused on student perceptions of their community, school, and social life; values; and future plans. All participants graduated from high school, and most went on to college or moved to another…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aspiration, Attitude Change
Erickson, Patricia M. – 1981
Teachers, especially home economics teachers, would be better prepared to evaluate subject matter and to separate fact and personal opinion if they had a better understanding of diverse student backgrounds. To find out such background information, a study was conducted to analyze attitudes and values held by junior and senior students in home…
Descriptors: Careers, Educational Attitudes, Family Attitudes, Family Influence
