From early aspirations to actual attainment: the effects of economic status and educational expectations on university pursuit

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• 作者：Ching-Ling Wu (1)
  Haiyan Bai (2)
  
  1. Department of Educational Policy and Administration ; National Chi Nan University ; 1 University Road ; Puli ; Nantou ; Taiwan
  2. Department of Educational and Human Sciences ; University of Central Florida ; P.O. Box 161250 ; 4000 Central Florida Blvd. ; Orlando ; FL ; 32816 ; USA
  
• 关键词：University aspirations ; University attainment ; Economic status ; Educational expectations ; Taiwan
• 刊名：Higher Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：69
• 期：3
• 页码：331-344
• 全文大小：219 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Education
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-174X

文摘

This study investigated the effects of economic status and the educational expectations of significant others on early university aspirations and actual university attainment. The study analyzed two-wave longitudinal data collected from 1,595 Taiwanese students in their 9th grade in middle school and in their freshman year at universities. The results revealed that economic status affected neither university aspirations nor university attainment. Among the significant others studied, parental expectations fundamentally affected university aspirations and teacher expectations consistently affected university aspirations and attainment. After considering economic status and educational expectations, early university aspirations remained strongly related to actual university attainment. Future research directions and practical educational approaches are recommended based on the aforementioned results.