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Chung, He Len; Mulvey, Edward P.; Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
As a group, delinquent youth complete less education and show poor academic outcomes compared to their non-delinquent peers. To better understand pathways to school success, this study integrated individual- and neighborhood-level data to examine academic functioning among 833 White, Black, and Hispanic male juvenile offenders (age 14-17) living…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Delinquency, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach
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Zhang, Yanyan; Haddad, Eileen; Torres, Bernadeth; Chen, Chuansheng – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Previous research has consistently demonstrated the importance of parents' expectations and adolescents' expectations on adolescents' academic achievement. Less is known, however, about the reciprocal relationships among these constructs. To address this issue, we analyzed two waves of data from the "National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988"…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1986
Marsh and Parker (1984) described the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) whereby equally able students have lower academic self-concepts in high-ability schools than in low-ability schools. The present investigation, a reanalysis of the Youth in Transition data, supported the generality of the earlier findings and demonstrated new theoretical…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance