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Download full textHepner, Ethel M. – 1970
The document reports on a study conducted to investigate value-clusters of Mexican American and Anglo American boys as related to self-concept and to achievement since it is the author's belief that typical elementary education does not meet the needs of Mexican American children. As noted, profitable remedies for the dilemma of underachievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes
Picou, J. Steven; Curry, Evans Wayne – 1974
One of the most consistent empirical findings in the increasing research on the sociology of sport revealed that white urban male high school athletes manifest higher-level educational orientations than their non-athlete counterparts. This study expanded this empirical literature by assessing the nature of the athletic participation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Athletes
Peer reviewedChurch, Avery G. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1980
Examined differences among academic achievement, IQ, level of occupational plans, delay of gratification, feelings of personal control, ethnic stereotypes of the average Indian and of the average White person, and self concepts. The Spanish-Americans scored between the Alglos and the Navahos, and the variables were positively interrelated. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Cross Cultural Studies
Menchaca, Velma Dora – 1992
Little prior research exists on the achievement motivation of Mexican American students. In a rural south Texas junior high school, 120 eighth-grade students completed the 1969 Achieving Tendency Scales and demographic and socioeconomic questionnaires. Subjects were equally divided among four groups: Mexican American males and females and Anglo…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Anglo Americans, Fear
Peer reviewedJames, Keith; And Others – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1995
Among 1,607 American Indian and Anglo dropouts and currently enrolled middle- and high-school students, language difficulties and problems with teachers were predictive of academic troubles and dropping out. Success of Indian students was related to stronger Anglo cultural identity and better English proficiency (in mainstream schools) but was not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Anglo Americans
Croft, Don B. – 1976
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks
Peer reviewedGoodenow, Carol; Grady, Kathleen E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1993
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Black Students
Iadicola, Peter – 1980
The impact of school racial context (percentage of Anglo students in school and degree of Anglo peer group integration) and student background characteristics (sex, race, educational attainment of father of school racial context differed for Blacks intentions was addressed. A random subsample of Anglo (1,367), Black (1,172), and Hispanic (430)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Blacks
