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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Occupational aspirations"”.
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The Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of Black Urban High School Youth
… study was to investigate the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of black inner city students enrolled in a vocational high school. Analyses were made for differences by class, sex, GPA, SES level, and helpfulness of the school in reaching the students' goals. This …
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Self-esteem in relation to the educational and occupational aspirations of black South African adolescent girls
… to examine certain aspects of educational and occupational development in adolescent females. Specifically, the aims were: (1) to ascertain the nature of occupational aspirations of black adolescent girls, (2) to determine the relationship between black adolescents self esteem and occupational …
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Home environmental factors that influence educational and occupational aspirations of grade 10 learners in the Omusati Region
… the formation of the learners' educational and occupational aspirations. The study focused on the following home variables. 1. Socio economic background 2. Parental education 3. Parental involvement 4. Gender of Learners
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Is higher education the key to unlock the door of fortune? A study of students' occupational aspirations
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The relationship between ego identity status, prestige, and ability and the occupational aspirations of high school seniors
The correlation between ego identity status (identity achievement or identity foreclosure), prestige of destination occupation, and environmental congruence of 198 high school seniors was assessed. All students came from rural and urban midwestern high schools. No significant correlations were …
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Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations and the Educational, Personal, and Family Characteristics of Selected Twelfth-Grade Female Students
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The educational and occupational aspirations of young Sikh adults. An ethnographic study of the discourses and narratives of parents, teachers and adults in one London school.
… study explores how future educational and occupational aspirations are constructed by young Sikh adults. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten young Sikh adults, both their parents, and their teachers at one school in West London to investigate how future aspirations are …
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Parental beliefs and expectations concerning the academic competence of learning disabled and nondisabled children
… and 3) parental reports of the educational and occupational aspirations for their children. The mothers of learning disabled children did not report more traditional, non democratic beliefs regarding child rearing and academic development than parents of nondisabled children. However, they did …
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Understanding factors that structure young Indian women’s entry into non-traditionally female occupational training: “I wanted to become something, but didn’t know what to become”
… chapter 3) that contrary to several studies on occupational aspirations that argue that aspirations tend to lead to their achievement, participants’ entry into the non-traditional training was not a result of their occupational aspirations. Instead, entry into the training created aspirations …
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Differential effects of the structure of opportunity on the development of career aspirations: A study of Project Talent participants
… in influencing the development of career aspirations over time; namely, the personal attributes (i.e., gender, socioeconomic status, interests, abilities, and values) cited in Gottfredson's (1981) developmental theory of occupational aspirations, and the structure of opportunity presented …
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Translating interests into images: a pictorial approach to career interest assessment in middle childhood
… 31% correspondence between PIP scores and coded occupational aspirations. Grade-level analyses revealed developmental progression, with interest structure differentiation improving from third to fifth grade. While 20% of items (6 of 30) require revision, findings demonstrate that pictorial …
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Black Minds Matter: Black Student Perceptions Of Three Kentucky Regional Comprehensive Predominantly White Institutions And The Role Of Campus Support Initiatives In Reducing The Frequence Of Stop-Out And Drop-Out
… their academic achievement, social involvement, occupational aspirations, student educational background, educational goals, demographic characteristics and personal adjustment to college. Using in-depth, phenomenological interviews, the study investigated the possible relationship between the …
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Aspirations and expectations in Latino youth: The role of barriers and support in the transition out of high school
… possible selves framework to examine the future aspirations and expectation of Latino youth in the transition from high school. A mixed-methods design was used to explore the nature of youth's educational and occupational aspirations and expectations, including the gaps between expectations and …
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An exploration of the beliefs, values, and attitudes of black students in Fairfax County
… cultural factors investigated included: student occupational and educational aspirations; student academic strategies; and people and.forces impacting upon student beliefs. The purpose was to determine if the characteristics of a caste minority, as defined by Ogbu, were exhibited by the black …
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Essays on the Economics of Education and Gender
… relationship between the noncognitive skills and aspirations in elementary school students using unique data on occupational and educational aspirations reported by students and teachers. I find a significant gender difference in the type of skills that predict educational and occupational …
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Sex Role Expectations in Children's Vocational Aspirations and Perceptions of Occupations
… held sex role expectations in their vocational aspirations and perceptions of occupations. In addition, the differences in responses between boys and girls; between preschool, lower elementary, and upper elementary school children; and between children attending schools in two neighborhoods--one …
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Clothing behavior of working women related to self-image/clothing- image congruity and achievement motivation
… several years. Clothing also has been related to occupational aspirations. The purpose of the research was to develop a model using the theoretical concepts actual self-image, ideal self-image, clothing-image and achievement motivation to predict women's clothing behavior for work. Using the …
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The aspiration generation. The aspirations and implementation strategies of young Londoners at risk of educational underachievement
… a discourse emphasizing the role of individual aspirations and responsibility, while overlooking structural obstacles to positive educational outcomes. In this discourse, young people are expected to become ‘intelligent customers’ in the education market, capable of making financially sound …
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Influences Affecting Career/Life Planning Aspirations as Perceived by Intellectually-Gifted, Ethnically-Diverse Adolescent Girls: A Case Study
… which affect the life planning and future aspirations of young, gifted black, Hispanic and Pan/Asian women. Studies conducted and reported have focused primarily on white, middle-class adolescents or college students. The importance of this study is the addition to the sparse amount of …