Personal and Social Factors That Influence Advanced Course-Taking during High School

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dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Mehmet Alien
dc.contributor.committeechairSingh, Kusumen
dc.contributor.committeememberPotter, Kenneth R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFortune, Jimmie C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCross, Lawrence H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHarvey, Robert J.en
dc.contributor.departmentEducational Leadership and Policy Studiesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:11:45Zen
dc.date.adate2001-05-09en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:11:45Zen
dc.date.issued2001-04-25en
dc.date.rdate2005-02-20en
dc.date.sdate2001-05-09en
dc.description.abstractThis study explored the factors that influence public high school students' advanced math course-taking. The factors investigated were parental involvement, peers' educational aspirations, students' own educational aspirations, and math self-concept. These factors were further examined for students in different settings as defined by school demographic variables of urbanicity, minority concentration, and poverty concentration. The study analyzed longitudinal data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS: 88), using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that parental involvement was much more important than peer influence for students' educational aspirations, and in turn, for their advanced level mathematics course-taking. Parental involvement had a larger effect for students in high-minority, high-poverty urban schools, who, on the average, had taken the smallest number of advanced mathematics courses, compared to students in other settings. Results from the study indicated that African-American students' math self-concepts were not affected by their previous math achievement, suggesting the lack of feedback about their mathematics performance. Recommendations based on the findings included improving parental involvement for all students, especially for students in high-minority, high-poverty urban schools, and providing more feedback to African-American students about their level of performance in mathematics and its consequences in terms of advanced math course-taking.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-05092001-114549en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05092001-114549/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/27603en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartmozturk.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEducational Aspirationsen
dc.subjectMath Self-Concepten
dc.subjectPeer Influenceen
dc.subjectParental Involvementen
dc.subjectMathematics Course-Takingen
dc.titlePersonal and Social Factors That Influence Advanced Course-Taking during High Schoolen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Leadership and Policy Studiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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