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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"educational aspirations"”.
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Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations
… of friends on multiple measures of students' educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools before students are distributed to stratified tracks. The dissertation discusses and examines various mechanisms through which friends can influence students' aspirations, such as the adaptation …
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Factors Influencing Undergraduate Women's Educational Aspirations
… The further one progresses through the educational pipeline, the more likely it is that she may prosper. However, in a society bolstered by patriarchal systems, economic and educational inequalities exist among the genders. Educational aspirations are influenced by students' …
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Examining the Influence of Negative Labeling on Educational Aspirations
… placed upon youth that could inhibit future aspirations more so than the delinquent acts themselves. Using data from the National Youth Survey, this study examines the influence of negative labeling by significant others on educational aspirations among youth with varying levels of …
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The educational aspirations and attainments of faculty wives at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… and responsibilities on the part of educational institutions to provide these women with an opportunity to fit them for useful and satisfying lives, to give them a chance to make a contribution to the social order. This study has revealed that the majority of faculty wives are …
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Factors influencing the educational aspirations of women pursuing a non-traditional career in law
… who had the greatest influence on the educational aspirations of these women. A questionnaire, based on a review of the literature, was constructed to identify descriptive variables and factors influencing non-traditional educational aspirations. A self-administered survey was …
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Exploring the educational aspirations of rural youth: an image-based study using participant produced photographs
… is an important variable in forming student aspirations in that it serves to help students become more knowledgeable about the world, more sensitive and understanding of their relationship to it, and more eager to contribute to the community. The purpose of this visual ethnography study was …
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Imagining and Navigating the Future: Educational Aspirations and Agency of Economically Disadvantaged Ethiopian Secondary School Students
… low completion rates of these groups widen the educational inequalities in the country. The government of Ethiopia has sought to allocate resources to narrow the educational inequality, but the policy framework is not based on the capabilities of students or their ability to utilize resources to …
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Reflections on a Promise: Student Experiences at a Two-Year Promise Institution and Their Educational Aspirations
<p>College students and their families have to shoulder more of the burden in college costs due to rising tuition. To deter students from adding to the national student loan debt, promise programs have been launched to eliminate cost as a barrier to postsecondary education. Programs vary in design …
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The Impact of Credit-based Transition Programs on Changing the Educational Aspirations of High School Seniors
… transition programs and their changes in educational aspirations. Surveys and community college data are used to collect quantitative data to address six research questions. Using Hossler and Gallagher’s (1987) College Choice Model and Hossler and Stage’s (1992) focus on the predisposition …
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An analysis of the influence of information on the educational aspirations of black high school seniors
… 1982 to influence black high school student aspirations for college. This study was designed to examine influences on college aspirations attributable to the SCHEV activities. A survey originally designed by SCHEV and the Department of Education was modified to collect data from 1151 black …
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The Influence of Adolescents' Educational Aspirations and Religiosity on the Desire to Marry Among High School Seniors
… Survey (MTF) to evaluate how twelfth grader's educational aspirations and religiosity influenced their desire to marry. Previous research indicates that education attained and increased religiosity increases the probability of marriage (Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin 1991; Goldstein and Kenney …
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The Dissipation of Urban High School Students' Post-Secondary Educational Aspirations and Career Planning During the College Choice Process
… factors that may influence their post-secondary educational aspirations and career plans. By working with students and guidance counselors at Sheridan High School, categorized as an urban high school but located in a rural area in the mid-Atlantic region of the country, the research team was able …
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Status, Ability, Encouragement, Sex Roles, and Educational Aspirations of Adolescents in Taiwan: A Replicative Study of the Sewell Model
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Motivational Factors Underlying College Students' Decisions to Resume Their Educational Pursuits in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… college students' decisions for continuing their educational pursuits at the historically Black university which is a temporary trailer campus created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The temporary campus has 45 trailers designated for …
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Personal and Social Factors That Influence Advanced Course-Taking during High School
… investigated were parental involvement, peers' educational aspirations, students' own educational aspirations, and math self-concept. These factors were further examined for students in different settings as defined by school demographic variables of urbanicity, minority concentration, and …
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Youth and at-risk behavior: the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean Island of Dominica
… Dominica concerning deviant behaviors in youth, educational aspirations, and choice. The challenges in the aftermath of a hurricane in the Caribbean are unique for many reasons. Due to these unique challenges, this study is necessary to understand how the youth in developing Caribbean islands …
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Self-esteem in relation to the educational and occupational aspirations of black South African adolescent girls
… of the study was 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 …
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Comparisons of experiences at native schools of Te Arawa with today's schools: The aspirations and the realities
… Schools of Te Arawa with Today's Schools: The Aspirations and the Realities". It builds on the topic of native schooling introduced in my Master of Education thesis (Raureti, 2000), yet differs to that study by comparing past Maori (indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand) educational …
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