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A Longitudinal Study Of Adolescent Educational Aspirations And Their Relationship To College Choice Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling And Group-Based Mixture Modeling, Aruna Lakshmanan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was four-fold: (1) to investigate the patterns of change in educational aspirations from the eighth grade through the twelfth in a large national sample of students from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 (NELS:88); (2) to understand how demographic, socioeconomic, parental, academic, and school experience factors impact both initial aspirations and change in aspirations; (3) to investigate how educational aspirations relate to students’ attempts to actualize plans for postsecondary education; and (4) to analyze the data and compare the results obtained using two different growth modeling techniques – hierarchical linear modeling and group-based mixture …