Two samples of entering college freshmen (at the University of Maryland, College Park) comprising two different generational cohorts (1976 cohort, n=1491; 1994 cohort, n=2516) were compared to determine the similarities and differences to attitudinal and behavioral items on a survey administered at a summer orientation program. The data were…

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, this study found that high school seniors with learning disabilities held lower aspirations than peers for both educational and occupational outcomes. No practical gender differences were found for students with learning disabilities. (DB)

Post high school expectancies of high school students were compared to their high school grades in a longitudinal study. The results clearly indicate that the causal ordering is from grades to expectancies, rather than the reverse. (Author/JKS)

It was concluded that knowledge of parental values, differences in academic aspirations between males and females, financial need, and a student's high school curriculum would be valuable in helping students select post-high school destinations. (Authors)

One-hundred and four seventh and eighth grade students of State University College at Buffalo Campus School were administered the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Scale, the California Study Methods Survey, and two other attitude scales. (JM)

Studied the relationship between academic motivation and occupational aspiration in 560 Nigerian secondary school students. Data from the Academic Motivation Questionnaire and the Employment Aspiration Questionnaire suggested that academic motivation and occupational aspiration seemed to complement each other. Both motivation and aspiration were…

Performance differences between two trials of two tasks indicated that students who learned during the second trial that they were being evaluated (high evaluation condition) demonstrated greater debilitation on anagrams and greater improvement on the visual motor task than low evaluation condition subjects. Evaluation condition influenced girls'…

Findings suggest that among Black high school seniors, there are no sex-related differences in aspirations and expectations for educational advancement. There are significant differences, however, in occupational goals and career values. These differences are not explained away when students' social class, academic aptitude, and community size are…

Among high school students, males' educational and career aspirations were strongly influenced by their academic ability and achievement, while females' aspirations were influenced mainly by parental attitudes and their socioeconomic background. (Author/MJL)

Longitudinal data from the National Youth Survey indicate that, in general, social control variables, such as attachment to family and educational aspirations, significantly predicted sexual activity among white adolescents, while strain variables, such as perceived inability to achieve educational goals, predicted sexual behavior of black…

A study of the relationship between student perceptions and learning behaviors attempted to answer the questions: (1) What are the perceptions of academic responsibility of the students? (2) How different are their perceptions when school, class, level of performance, and gender are different? and (3) To what extent is their perception of…

Two weeks before their June 1978 graduation, 21,225 students in the Los Angeles (CA) Unified School District graduating class completed a questionnaire about their plans after graduation and their opinions about their senior high school programs. Sixty percent reported that they had chosen their career by the time of their graduation. A smaller…

Academic achievement at age 16 was influenced more by achievement at age 14 than by affective variables. Affective variables included academic and occupational aspiration, parent expectations, school attitudes, sex, socioeconomic status, parents' education, and migrancy. (CP)

Examines alienation and student effort among undergraduates attending a two-year college, a comprehensive college, and a research university. Alienation differed by institution and gender, and student effort differed by institution, with students at four-year colleges having higher occupational aspirations. Few gender differences were found in…

The relative influence of gender, coursework, affect, and other hypothesized determinants of mathematics achievement among high school seniors was examined, using data from the High School and Beyond (HSB) database. The HSB base-year survey used a multi-stage sampling scheme. Complete data on the variables of this study were available for 16,358…