The relationships of various different variables which had been used to define socio-economic status (SES) to achievement for second- and fifth-grade students were examined. Interviews were conducted with 533 parents across the Austin Independent School District to obtain information on job status, age, income, education, attitude toward…

Each year the New Mexico State Department of Education and the state's 88 school districts publish report cards that provide information on the operation and performance of the schools and characteristics of its students. This report is the state-level report card, providing narrative and statistical information on an array of educational…

Factors which relate to academic success for university freshmen were investigated. Objectives were to: determine which of six independent variables were most highly related to and predictive of a 2.0 (C) cumulative grade point average (GPA), the dependent variable, for two consecutive quarters; determine which combination of factors could most…

Purposes of this study were to detect some of the sociocultural differences between Mexican American and Anglo junior high school students; to determine how the sociocultural characteristics of the Mexican American students were related to their language background; and to ascertain how characteristics of both groups were related to their…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative importance of school socioeconomic and racial-ethnic context for Mexican American student achievement and dropout behavior. Data reported in this paper were obtained from the first part of a larger 3-year panel study evaluating the effects of court-ordered busing on majority and minority…

Assessed the attitudes of 359 immigrant and native-born American parents of kindergarten through second-grade children about child rearing, education, and intelligence and their children's school performance. Found that parents' beliefs about conformity were negatively related to their children's school performance. (MDM)

Failure of the educational system to provide for the Mexican American student can be seen by his dropout rate which is twice that of the national average and by his schooling ratio which is 8 years compared to 12 years for the average Anglo. In order to solve the problems of the low-income, bicultural, bilingual Mexican American student, higher…

Examines effects of socioeconomic status, school funding, English proficiency, and Latino population concentration on achievement scores of students in grades 3, 6, and 12 in 66 rural California school districts. Performance on the California Assessment Program was predicted primarily by parental socioeconomic status, and, unexpectedly, improved…

The study identified variables contributing to success in college for low prior educational attainment students from differing cultural backgrounds; described the nature and operation of COPE (College Opportunity Program for Enrichment); described the background characteristics of the COPE students; compared the COPE students' attitudes toward…

In 2 studies, the academic expectations of teachers (n=27 to 29 and n=30) for students differing by racial group, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), parental structure, and parenthood were studied. SES and teenage motherhood were the strongest predictors of lower expectations. Higher expectations were reported for middle-class students. (SLD)

AFTER ACHIEVING SATISFACTORILY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, SIOUX INDIAN STUDENTS TEND TO SHOW A REVERSAL OF THIS PROCESS AND BEGIN A STEADY DECLINE IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. TO STUDY THIS PROBLEM, AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP WAS SELECTED WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING OGLALA SIOUX YOUNGSTERS--(1) 164 EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS FROM SEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND (2) 159…

Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) students scoring at the 77%ile and above were exposed to three different treatments: (1) a Magnet Plan involving the reassignment of students and teachers to special schools; (2) a Vanguard Plan for students and teachers within a school; and (3) unspecified instructional enrichment provided in…

It is hoped that the development of South Mountain Community College will have significant impact on the South Phoenix community (Arizona) which has an urban and minority population characterized by lower educational level, lower income, and higher unemployment than populations in other portions of the county. The community college is expected to…

The relationships among early adolescents' sense of school belonging, perceptions of their friends' academic values, and academic motivation were studied for 301 African American, white (Anglo), and Hispanic students in 2 urban junior high schools. Correlations between school belonging and motivation-related measures is positive and statistically…

Posits a distinction between cultures motivated by individualistic value systems (idiocentric) and collectivistic value systems (allocentric). Study reveals that Mexican American adolescents describe themselves in more allocentric terms, while Anglo American adolescents choose idiocentric terms. Suggests a correlation between idiocentric values…