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Education
By Zakia Redd, M.P.P., Jennifer Brooks, Ph.D., and Ayelish M. McGarvey
TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3 TABLE 4 TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7
Academic Self-Concept Achievement Motivation School Engagement Educational Expectations Academic Achievement High School Completion/Reduce High School Dropout Postsecondary Attendance and Attainment
Education

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Educational Expectations

- Youth employment programs

- Programs aimed at fostering academic and social competence among disadvantaged high school students

 
Individual Level

- Promote increased academic self-concept

- Promote increased school engagement

- Decrease adolescents' perceived economic limitations to education

- Promote a more internal locus of control

- Promote adolescents' academic achievement

- Discourage school disciplinary problems

- Decrease grade retention

- Promote enrollment in academic track at school

- Discourage adolescents' extensive employment during school-year

Family Level

- Promote increased socioeconomic status of families

- Promote increased parental education

- Promote two-parent families

- Promote smaller families

- Promote greater parental involvement in adolescents' education

- Promote authoritative parenting style

- Promote greater parental expectations for their adolescents' education

Peer Level

- Promote increased educational aspirations among adolescents' peers or alter adolescents' perceptions of their peers' educational aspirations

School Level

- Increase school expenditures

- Discourage adolescents' perceptions that they are less competent than their classmates

- Promote increased teacher expectations and support for adolescents' education or adolescents' perceptions of their teachers' expectations

Program Level

- Service learning programs


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