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Ridings, Kelley R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This investigation examined the impact combinations of at-risk factors had on 10,373 high school students in an urban school district from the school years 2000-2001 to 2006-2007. Students were categorized as high school graduates or dropouts. At-risk factors were associated with each student record. Hypothetical structural models were created for…
Descriptors: Student Records, Urban Schools, High Schools, Structural Equation Models
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Brown, Steven D.; Tramayne, Selena; Hoxha, Denada; Telander, Kyle; Fan, Xiaoyan; Lent, Robert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study tested Social Cognitive Career Theory's (SCCT) academic performance model using a two-stage approach that combined meta-analytic and structural equation modeling methodologies. Unbiased correlations obtained from a previously published meta-analysis [Robbins, S. B., Lauver, K., Le, H., Davis, D., & Langley, R. (2004). Do psychosocial…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Structural Equation Models, Persistence, Academic Achievement
Tauriac, Jesse J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Researchers express growing concern over the increasing higher education achievement gap between subgroups of Black American students (e.g., Massey, Mooney, Torres, & Charles, 2007). Whereas the number of degrees awarded to Black females has consistently grown for each of the past twenty years, the number of degrees awarded to Black males during…
Descriptors: African American Students, First Generation College Students, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement
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Gray, Kenneth; And Others – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1996
Includes "The Family: Ultimate Arbiter of Workforce Education Reform" (Gray); "Reaction to Way and Rossman's Family Contributions to Adolescent Readiness for School-to-Work Transition" (Stewart); "Using Structural Equation Modeling and Path Analysis for Advancing Conceptual and Theoretical Positions" (Rojewski); and "Response to Stewart, Gray and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Education Work Relationship, Family Characteristics, Family Environment
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Garcia-Celay, I. Montero; Tapia, J. Alonso – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Three models of achievement motivation in the classroom are contrasted. Results with 155 high school students suggest that the model of C. S. Dweck and E. S. Elliott offers a better explanation of the relationships among achievement motivation, attributions, emotional reactions, expectancies, and performance than do the other models. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis