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Stone, Paula C.; Ruiz, Rene A. – 1971
Mexican American and Anglo 11th grade high school students from lower and middle socioeconomic classes were compared using the locus of control, adequate achievement reality, and temporal orientations as potential correlates of scholastic performance and future education and vocational goals. The sample of 89 male and 87 female students from 3…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Aspiration
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Moreno, Robert P. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Examines the comparative research on maternal teaching behaviors of minority and low-status families. Offers some exploratory data that reexamines the verbal teaching behavior of Chicana- and Anglo-American mothers while instructing their children to tie their shoelaces. Contrary to earlier studies, the findings support that ethnic differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences