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Download full textResearch Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1977
Data obtained from thousands of respondents to the Base-Year Student Questionnaire and First Followup Questionnaire of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 were used to investigate self-esteem, locus of control, and work-, community-, and family-related life goals, and to generate profile means and standard deviations…
Descriptors: Ability, Career Development, Demography, Educational Development
Ovando, Carlos Julio – 1977
The study's hypotheses were that: (1) the structural factors of ethnic density, socioeconomic status and type of school were more important determinants of college aspirations than such psychological variables as locus of control, optimism level and level of satisfaction with self and with the school program; and (2) students who were aware of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Bound Students
Trusty, Jerry – Center for School Counseling Outcome Research (NJ1), 2004
Using data from a national study spanning 12 years, I examined the effects of several middle-school and high-school variables on completion versus non-completion of the bachelor's degree. All young people in the study had attended college with the purpose of attaining the bachelor's. Several variables had practically significant effects on degree…
Descriptors: Student Development, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Experience
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This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior,…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Prevention
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1991
Eleven papers on theory and research in higher education have the following titles and authors: "Perceived Control in College Students: Implications for Instruction in Higher Education" (Raymond P. Perry); "The Changing Locus of Control Over Faculty Research: From Self-Regulation to Dispersed Influence" (Melissa S. Anderson and…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Peng, Samuel S.; And Others – 1975
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 has completed two phases of data collection: the Base-Year and the First Follow-Up Surveys. This paper summarizes some of the findings from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of that data. A cross-sectional analysis of the base-year results yielded information on grades, work,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Choice
