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Download full textStuart, 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
Wigfield, Allan – 1984
This paper examines a broad set of beliefs about achievement and the relationship of those beliefs to performance and future plans in mathematics and English. The two main purposes of the analysis are (1) to assess gender and grade-level differences in children's achievement beliefs as they proceed through junior and senior high school, and (2) to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Inoue, Yukiko – 1999
This study sought to better understand the academic and social aspirations of undergraduate women in Guam and Japan. A survey question examined whether significant differences existed between Guamanian and Japanese undergraduate women in status aspirations and occupational ethics and in their life course selection. The questionnaire's five…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Cultural Influences, Expectation, Family Work Relationship
Millett, Catherine M.; MacKenzie, Susan – 1996
This study examined, over a 3-year period, the ability of financial assistance for minority students to bridge the gap between generic higher education and the high-prestige, high-cost institutions that are associated with long-term economic benefits to graduates. Applying a variation of the status attainment model to data for the 1989-1990…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Black Students
Perna, Laura Walter – 1998
This study examined the extent to which the relative influence on college investment decisions of economic, academic, structural, social, and cultural capital varied by racial/ethnic group. Data from the third (1994) follow-up to the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 were used. The adjusted weighted sample included 11,933 individuals…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attendance Patterns, Black Students
Thomas, Ramona S. – 1998
This study examined the college enrollment decisions of Black and Latino students, focusing on factors that influenced their decision to attend college. Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988-1994 were used, namely a sample of 11,879 seniors who completed high school in 1992, including 1,181 Blacks and 1,505 Latinos. The study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attendance Patterns, Black Students
