A Dream Deferred?: Examining the Degree Aspirations of African American and White College StudentsUniversity of Michigan, 1997 - 213 pages |
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... high 1985 aspirations and graduate school attendance . The positive predictors of high aspirations are intellectual self - esteem , and indicating " to prepare for graduate or professional school ' as an important reason for attending ...
... high 1985 aspirations and graduate school attendance . The positive predictors of high aspirations are intellectual self - esteem , and indicating " to prepare for graduate or professional school ' as an important reason for attending ...
Page 183
... high school graduates who graduated from college by 1985 . Operational Definitions Ambition : " how much education do you really expect to get ? " The responses to the question ranged from " I'll quit high school before graduating " to ...
... high school graduates who graduated from college by 1985 . Operational Definitions Ambition : " how much education do you really expect to get ? " The responses to the question ranged from " I'll quit high school before graduating " to ...
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... school ; 3 - less than two years of vocational , trade , or business school , 2 - high - school graduation ; 1 = less than high - school graduation . Degree Aspirations : " Highest degree aspired to " coded as " none or less than ...
... school ; 3 - less than two years of vocational , trade , or business school , 2 - high - school graduation ; 1 = less than high - school graduation . Degree Aspirations : " Highest degree aspired to " coded as " none or less than ...
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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