A Dream Deferred?: Examining the Degree Aspirations of African American and White College StudentsUniversity of Michigan, 1997 - 213 pages |
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... grade point average , ability seems to have mostly indirect effects on educational aspirations . Perhaps this is because aptitude has been found to be strongly related to socioeconomic status ( Thomas , Alexander , & Eckland , 1979 ) ...
... grade point average , ability seems to have mostly indirect effects on educational aspirations . Perhaps this is because aptitude has been found to be strongly related to socioeconomic status ( Thomas , Alexander , & Eckland , 1979 ) ...
Page 48
... grade when they took the ACT , as opposed to less than 70 % of White students . Therefore , African Americans in ... grade , planned to go to college were about 47 % more likely to attend college as students who decided in the 12th grade ...
... grade when they took the ACT , as opposed to less than 70 % of White students . Therefore , African Americans in ... grade , planned to go to college were about 47 % more likely to attend college as students who decided in the 12th grade ...
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... grade point average . Thus it could be the high income / high scholarship students are not performing with high enough grade point averages to consider advanced degrees , since a minimum 3.0 undergraduate GPA is required by many ...
... grade point average . Thus it could be the high income / high scholarship students are not performing with high enough grade point averages to consider advanced degrees , since a minimum 3.0 undergraduate GPA is required by many ...
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academic academic degree affect students African American students American and White analyses Astin Bachelor's degree base regression model BPS and CIRP BPS dataset BPS students campus choice institution CIRP dataset CIRP sample CIRP students coefficients college students constrained correlation degree aspirations degree goals dependent variable differences educational aspirations educational expectations educational plans effects ethnic expectations and plans expected to earn Faculty Contact Father's Educational Attainment financial aid measures full regression model grade point average HBCUs high scholarship higher degree expectations higher education institutional characteristics Intellectual Self-Confidence Kerckhoff levels lower measurement of aspirations meritocracy Mother's Educational Operational Definitions parent income Pascarella planned to earn postsecondary institutions pre-college characteristics predictor of African predictor of degree racial/ethnic group relationship scholarship aid Sewell significant predictor significantly socioeconomic status sponsored mobility students attending students degree students in BPS students in CIRP studies of aspirations Table White African White and African White students