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Edwards, Diana Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the school achievement and motivation literature of African American students, one major theme of the literature is a supposed inconsistency or discrepancy in African American students' value and expectations for their academic achievement and their actual levels of achievement. The discrepancy between Black students' achievement ideologies and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Black Colleges, Student Attitudes
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Burrus, Jeremy; Jackson, Teresa; Xi, Nuo; Steinberg, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
To identify the most important competencies for college graduates to succeed in the 21st century workforce, we conducted an analysis of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database. O*NET is a large job analysis operated and maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor. We specifically analyzed ratings of the importance of abilities (52…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Job Skills, Occupational Information, Databases