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Tynkkynen, Lotta; Tolvanen, Asko; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The purpose of this person-oriented, 5-wave longitudinal study was to examine the trajectories of educational expectations from adolescence to young adulthood in the context of the expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983). Altogether, 853 (48% female; M age = 16 years) Finnish adolescents reported their educational expectation, 1st in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Grade Point Average, Adolescents
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Li, Jin; Yamamoto, Yoko; Luo, Lily; Batchelor, Andrea K.; Bresnahan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The developing views of the purposes of school learning (PSLs) and related achievement among immigrant Chinese preschoolers and their European American (EA) age-mates were examined. Both culture and socioeconomic status (SES) were considered simultaneously, an often neglected research approach to studying Asian children. One hundred and fifty…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Immigrants, Chinese Americans, Whites