Undergraduate Aspirations and Career Choice: Effects of College Selectivity

Reitz, Jeffrey G.

doi:10.2307/2112457

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“…However, the same student will also experience a decrease in self-concept, perhaps somewhat lowering his or her aspirations, because he or she would not view himself or herself as being as capable as his or her peers if surrounded by other highly able students. Therefore, the net effect of selectivity on aspirations, taking into account both the theory of relative deprivation and the environmental press theory, might actually be zero because of the effects canceling each other out (Reitz, 1975) and will likely be a result of both processes in combination rather than the occurrence of only one or the other.…”

Section: Environmental Press Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Programmatic Selectivity on the Academic Achievement, Academic Self-Concepts, and Aspirations of Gifted College Students

Rinn

2007

Gifted Child Quarterly

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The purpose of this study is to examine the academic achievement, academic self-concepts, and aspirations of gifted college students who are enrolled in an honors program and of gifted college students who are not enrolled in an honors program. Participants include 294 gifted college students, 248 of whom were enrolled in an honors program and 46 who were not enrolled in an honors program. A series of analyses of covariance is used to compare the mean grade point averages, academic self-concepts, and educational aspirations of the two groups. Academic self-concept is measured using the Academic subscale of the Self Description Questionnaire III. Results indicate the gifted/honors students have higher academic achievement and higher academic self-concepts than the gifted/ nonhonors students, even when controlling for SAT score. No significant differences are found with regard to aspirations. Implications are discussed.

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Section: Environmental Press Theorymentioning

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Effects of Programmatic Selectivity on the Academic Achievement, Academic Self-Concepts, and Aspirations of Gifted College Students

Rinn

2007

Gifted Child Quarterly

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“…Reitz's (1975) conclusion that "colleges as normative reference groups influence absolute self-assessments" is a common theme in research attempting to define the relationship between the student and his or her academic environment. Indeed, a number of models have developed describing the effect that peer ability level has on students' self-concept and aspirations.…”

Section: School Selectivity As a Predictor Of Self-conceptmentioning

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Mathematical self-concept: How college reinforces the gender gap

Sax¹

1994

Res High Educ

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“…(See Collins, 1968;Hagstrom, 1965;Merton, 1957;Parsons, 1954;Storer, 1966. ) This conceptualization of the dependent variable distinguishes this paper from previous studies of student career plans, including changes during the college years (e.g., Astin & Panos, 1969;Davis, 1965;Kamens, 1974, Reitz, 1975. Rather than dealing with specific occupational choices, I shall use more general value orientations.…”

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Undergraduate Orientations Toward Scientific and Scholarly Careers

Phelan

1979

American Educational Research Journal

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This paper studies the impact of university membership and of participation in university roles and tasks on undergraduate orientations toward scientific or scholarly careers. Differences in personal background characteristics are also considered. Subsamples of data were drawn from ACE-Carnegie surveys of (a) freshman entering U.S. colleges and universities in 1968, (b) the same cohort at Christmas, 1969, and (c) faculty teaching at these institutions during Spring, 1969. Respondents for the present study represented 40 universities and six academic departments in these institutions. Findings show that direct contact with faculty, particularly in departments of high research productivity, was influential in the development of female orientations.This did not hold for male respondents, however, for whom involvement with academic work had a greater impact on orientations.

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Undergraduate Aspirations and Career Choice: Effects of College Selectivity

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Effects of Programmatic Selectivity on the Academic Achievement, Academic Self-Concepts, and Aspirations of Gifted College Students

Effects of Programmatic Selectivity on the Academic Achievement, Academic Self-Concepts, and Aspirations of Gifted College Students

Mathematical self-concept: How college reinforces the gender gap

Undergraduate Orientations Toward Scientific and Scholarly Careers

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