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Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Wang, Ming-Te – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Drawing on Eccles' expectancy-value model of achievement-related choices, we examined the personal aptitudes and motivational beliefs at 12th grade that move individuals toward or away from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations at age 29. In the first set of analyses, occupational and lifestyle values, math ability…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 12, Gender Differences, High School Students
Sawyer, Richard – ACT, Inc., 2008
For more than two decades, education authorities have warned that the reading, writing, mathematics, and science skills of America's young adults are insufficient to maintain its economic strength. Some indicators suggest that the average educational achievement of high school students in the U.S. is mediocre in comparison to that of other…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Scott, Leslie A.; Ingels, Steven J. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The search for an understandable reporting format has led the National Assessment Governing Board to explore the possibility of measuring and interpreting student performance on the 12th-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Nation's Report Card, in terms of readiness for college, the workplace, and the military. This…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, School Readiness, Outcomes of Education, Grade 12
Pike, Lewis; And Others – 1979
This report by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) presents information collected from a representative sample of public school students (1,728 from 55-60 schools in grades 4, 8, 12 from 27 states) in the United States during the fall of 1974. The information was used for an ETS survey directed toward international education aspects of social…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries