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Kenny, Maureen E.; Gualdron, Leyla; Scanlon, David; Sparks, Elizabeth; Blustein, David L.; Jernigan, Maryam – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
This study presents the educational and career goals and perceptions of supports and barriers related to these goals as described in semistructured interviews of 16 students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds attending 9th grade at an urban public high school in a large Northeastern city. Using consensual qualitative research (CQR)…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Access to Education
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Lese, Karen P.; Robbins, Steven B. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1994
Examined relationship among goals, acculturation, and academic achievement for 39 Southeast Asian adolescent refugees in high school vocational education program. Students expressed career, work, and family goals that were positive in affect and individual in nature. Low goal instability and high goal commitment were significantly related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adolescents, Asian Americans