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Reforming 529 College Savings Plans To Better Reach Low-Income Families, Margaret Clancy, Leslie Parrish
Reforming 529 College Savings Plans To Better Reach Low-Income Families, Margaret Clancy, Leslie Parrish
Center for Social Development Research
Reforming 529 College Savings Plans to Better Reach Low-Income Families
Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
Center for Social Development Research
Notwithstanding the far reaching intellectual and practical contributions of Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, researchers have suggested that it may not adequately address the role of institutions. This paper suggests that traditional measures of self-efficacy underemphasize institutional factors. This may have important implications, especially for considering the circumstances of disadvantaged groups. It may be productive to think of self-efficacy as a multidimensional construct that includes personal and institutional dimensions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we examine how self-efficacy theory can be expanded to account for the social and economic realities of disadvantaged groups and lead to empirical work that can inform policy …