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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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Gutman, Leslie Morrison; Schoon, Ingrid; Sabates, Ricardo – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Relatively little is known about adolescents who hold uncertain aspirations, that is, those who do not know what they would like to do in the future regarding their educational or occupational plans. Drawing upon the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England born in 1989-1990, the authors tested a pathway model to investigate the antecedents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Outcomes of Education, Interests
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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