Collective Expectations Protecting and Preventing Academic Achievement

• Main Author: Trinidad, Jose Eos R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: academic expectations; school structure; hierarchical linear models; status attainment; blocked opportunities; Education; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/24; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013124518785444
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

High academic expectation—how far a student expects to get in school—is usually predictive of positive outcomes for a student. Yet less is known about mechanisms behind collective expectation: the proportion of students in a school who expect to pursue further studies. Using urban schools’ data from...