This longitudinal study explored adolescents' future-oriented cognitions, current activities, and later educational attainment using data from 317 adolescents (55% female; mean age = 14.98 years, SD = 0.85) followed into early adulthood. Aspirations and expectations regarding work and education showed modest stability from year to year. Exploration of the reciprocal relations between these cogn...

This study examines the relationships between parental assets with their expectations and involvement of children’s education, and children’s educational performance measured 2 years later. Through the analysis of the mother–child data set of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), results indicate that after controlling for family income and other parent characteristics, parental a...

This article analyzes the relationship between U.S. state governance and policies designed to enhance educational expectations. It examines three policy areas: state participation in voluntary National Assessment of Educational Progress testing, state testing requirements for new teachers, and state high school graduation requirements in math and science. In general, it identifies associations ...

1 Jeffrey R. Mountain, The University of Texas at Tyler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tyler, Tx. 75799, [email protected] 2 Michael H. Pleck, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of General Engineering, Urbana, IL 61801, [email protected] Abstract – Educational outcomes assessment is becoming an important focus of education, particularly under ABET ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the expectations of women requesting the maternal education program (ME) and to determine their evaluation of it. METHODS a multi-centric observational study was conducted in four hospitals in Spain in 2011 with primiparous women. Socio-demographic and obstetrical variables, among others, were collected through interviews and reviews of medical records. The analysis est...

fn]anu.ary ]990, more tban 200 leaders from tbe occu.pational tberapy profession gatbered IOgetber in San Diego, California, at tbe Directiollsfor the Future Sj'mposium. Critical issues concerning practice, education, and researcb were discussed and numerous ideas were sbared. During tbe next year, tbis column will publisb a numher ofarticles that explore some of tbe more prouocatiue of these i...