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Peer reviewedJacobs, Janis E.; Finken, Laura L.; Griffin, Nancy Lindsley; Wright, Janet D. – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
Examined relations between parent attitudes, intrinsic value of science, peer support, available activities, and preference for science careers for science-talented rural high school girls. Findings from questionnaires completed by 220 students and their mothers highlight the importance of providing activities and other supports to maintain girls'…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Career Choice, Females
Download full textKuvlesky, William P.; Venegas, Moises – 1974
The document tested the level of generalization of a recent conclusion from past research (see ED075156) on nonmetropolitan (NM) south and southwest Texas Mexican American teenagers: that these youths have predominantly high and strong status aspirations and expectations. Earlier findings on NM Mexican American youth supported Merton's thesis that…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Aspiration, Career Choice
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1977
This booklet provides information on corn and hog farming on a small farm through a profile of a farm family. According to the profile, John and Mary Miller and their three children are a comfortable family operating a corn and hog farm in Iowa. John, the principal farmer, uses a variety of skills in management, veterinary science, soil science,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Skills, Animal Husbandry
KUVLESKY, WILLIAM P.; UPHAM, W. KENNEDY – 1967
THE PURPOSES OF AN INVESTIGATION WERE TO TEST THE PROPOSITION THAT RURAL NEGRO AND WHITE YOUTH HAVE SIMILAR LEVELS OF SOCIAL ASPIRATION AND TO EXAMINE POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS THAT CAN BE DRAWN FROM THE FINDINGS. THE RESEARCHERS HYPOTHESIZED THAT NEGRO AND WHITE YOUTH HOLD GOALS OF SIMILAR LEVELS IN REFERENCE TO INCOME, OCCUPATION, EDUCATION, AND…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Bibliographies, Black Youth, Career Choice
Edington, Everett D., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Constituting the first material accomplishment of the recently formed International Network of Rural Youth Researchers (INRYR), this annotated bibliography presents abstracts of 19 papers presented at the Fourth World Congress for Rural Sociology during the summer of 1976 at Torun, Poland in a seminar entitled "Rural Youth: Human Resource or…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Aspiration, Agriculture, Annotated Bibliographies
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1977
One of a series of bibliographies on selected topics, this annotated bibliography includes 116 citations on the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of rural youth. Citations are derived from the ERIC monthly publications "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE).…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Annotated Bibliographies
