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Download full textLarson, Wayne L.; Slocum, Walter L. – 1969
The purpose of this study of rural youth, initiated in 1964, was to determine if low family income tends to depress students' aspirations, achievements, and expectations. The sample for the study consisted of 601 students from 30 Washington high schools. The data were obtained by questionnaires and interviews administered to students, and through…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attitudes, Family Income
McCracken, J. David; Fails, Eric – 1989
Panel studies examined changes in the educational and occupational aspirations of 191 rural Ohio youth. The 1988 survey questions were similar to those asked in a study conducted 3 years earlier when subjects were 10th and 12th graders. Major findings were: (1) the influence of school personnel on student career and curriculum choices was less…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Followup Studies
Odell, Kerry S. – 1989
This paper examines rural high school students' educational and occupational expectations and their relationships to personal, educational, school, and family characteristics. Questionnaires were distributed to all 10th and 12th graders in four small rural high schools in diverse geographic regions of Ohio. Almost all of the 491 respondents were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Family Characteristics, High Schools
Henry, William F.; Miles, Guy H. – 1974
A 1972 follow-up study of 282 Spanish-surname and 176 Anglo youths who grew up in the rural Southwest analyzed data (results to be used to develop future Federal programs) on occupational and social adjustment. Surveyed 7 years after 8th grade graduation, each subject represented 1 of 14 rural counties with 10 percent or more Spanish-surname…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Employment Opportunities, Hypothesis Testing
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2006
In 2004, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania contracted with Pennsylvania State University to begin a longitudinal study of rural Pennsylvania school students to understand their future aspirations, the factors influencing these aspirations, whether their plans change as they age, and if they attain their goals and plans. The main research questions…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Rural Environment, Rural Education, Longitudinal Studies
Cosby, Arthur G.; Picou, J. Steven – 1979
Career and career related preference expressed by a number of rural Southern high school youth were found to moderately predict their early adult behaviors. Preferences for post high school education were the dominant influence and single best predictor of subsequent educational attainment. Moderate linkages were also found to exist between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aspiration, Blacks
