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Suchman, Edward A.; And Others – 1968
This is a summary of a questionnaire study of the relationship of low socioeconomic status and educational aspirations and plans of secondary schools students in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The findings are presented in a series of five doctoral dissertations, fully reported in UD 007 882. (EF)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
Gordon, C. Wayne; And Others – 1968
Mexican American educational aspirations and achievements were studied to determine why they tended to be considerably lower than those of Anglos and also to account for the sources of variation within each group, thus attempting to explain the particular contribution of school contexts of varying socioeconomic level and ethnic composition. A…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans
Rever, Philip R.; And Others – 1973
The report is a response to Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority's concern about limiting factors which constrain students' choices of paths to follow after leaving high school, specifically unacceptable factors that prohibit students (1) from pursuing postsecondary education and (2) from entering postsecondary institutions of their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Planning
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1976
Public and private higher education share many of the same problems. The private sector, however, is especially vulnerable to certain pressures because tuition is a primary source of its revenue. In this report, several important functional aspects are considered for their bearing on academic purposes or roles: special roles such as church…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Faculty, College Students, Curriculum
Myers, David E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1997
This monograph presents the executive summary of a study evaluating the first-year impacts and program operations of Upward Bound, a federal pre-college program designed to help economically disadvantaged students complete high school and gain access to post-secondary education. In 1996, 45,000 students participated in the program through projects…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Bound Students, Compensatory Education
Lugaila, Terry A. – 2003
This report is the second based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) providing a portrait of the well-being of children and their daily activities. The report highlights a variety of indicators that portray children's experiences at home and at school, and includes findings about parents' feelings toward their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Child Development, Children
Gorard, Stephen; Fevre, Ralph; Rees, Gareth; Furlong, John; Renold, Emma – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Gorard, Stephen; Rees, Gareth; Renold, Emma; Fevre, Ralph – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Hamrick, Florence A.; Stage, Frances K. – 2000
This study tested a causal model of student college predisposition that incorporated traditional measures of influences (parents' education, income, gender, parents' expectations, grades, school activities), as well as two additional influences (first-generation status and mentoring) identified in qualitative studies of pre-college through early…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Colleges Ontario, 2005
The 2004 College Applicant Survey (CAS) describes the college-bound applicant pool by covering a broad range of areas including key demographics, factors influencing college selection, academic background and financial preparedness. It is the most comprehensive and the richest source of survey data to date on applicants to the Ontario Colleges of…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Profiles, Surveys, Individual Characteristics
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Hauser, Robert M.; Anderson, Douglas K. – Sociology of Education, 1991
Presents results of studies comparing the plans and aspirations of African-American and white high school seniors. Reports that both groups' plans followed similar trends during a period when the chances of college entry declined for African Americans. Attributes trends toward more education among African Americans but not whites to favorable…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Education, Black Students, Educational Opportunities
Perna, Laura W. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2005
This article describes what is known from prior research about the impact of student financial aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family (including parents' and children's) college-going aspirations, expectations, and plans, and the resulting college-going behaviors of potential students. The review focuses on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, Student Financial Aid
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Blecher, Lee – College Student Journal, 2006
This study utilized data from the "NCES Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS 96/01)" to explore the 6-year persistence status of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) students seeking the bachelor's degree at four-year institutions irrespective of whether they had remained at their initial institution, transferred, temporarily…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Discriminant Analysis, Consumer Science, Academic Persistence
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Online Submission, 2007
This occasional paper is intended to serve as a supplement to the larger annual volume, "Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2006: Volume I: Secondary School Students." This supplement contains the graphic presentation of the trends in drug use for various demographic subgroups, namely those defined by gender, college…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Drug Use, Secondary School Students, Drug Abuse
Martinez, Michael E.; Lahart, Colleen M. – 1990
This profile is a "biographical sketch" of the nation's students based on information gathered in the 1986 and 1988 National Assessments of Educational Progress (NAEP) as part of their surveys of proficiencies in subject areas. The report is based primarily on data from the 1988 assessment, in which about 79,000 students in grades 4, 8,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Asian Americans, Attendance
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