The purposes of the study were: (1) to examine the perceptions of students across a number of socio-economic and demographic categories; (2) to gauge their satisfaction with home responsibilities and attitude toward family; and (3) to identify perception of teachers' expectations as they related to student's expectation to graduate. Of particular interest was the pattern of interrelationship on selected variables for Hispanic female students as an ethnic-gender group, when compared to Hispanic males, non-Hispanic females, non-Hispanic males and all others. The variables included in this study were: satisfaction with home responsibilities; attitude toward family; student's perception of teachers' expectations; and student's expectation to graduate. / The study sample consisted of 406 eighth grade students enrolled in an urban public school. The six schools were chosen by stratified random sampling. All of the eighth graders were surveyed including the limited-English-proficient, bilingual (Spanish) and students with learning disabilities. A questionnaire was developed and administered, which provided the basis on which to measure the four variables of interest in this study. / Five multiple regression models developed and analysed. The significance of the regression co-efficient were assessed the Alpha value of.05. / Results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that for the entire population, all three independent variables were found to be significant. For Hispanic Females, the variables Student's Satisfaction with Home Responsibilities and Student's Expectation to Graduate were found to be significant. For Hispanic Males, only Student's Expectation to Graduate was found to be significant. Other Females the variables, Student's Attitude toward family and Student's Expectation to Graduate were found to be significant. Like the Hispanic Males, Other males also found Student's Perception of Teacher's Expectation to be significant. For All Other Groups (combination of Hispanic Males, Other Females, and Other Males) the variable Student's Perception of Teachers' Expectations was found to be significant. / The results of this study seem to indicate that there is an interrelationship between home and school values as they related to the expectations of Hispanic females to graduate from high school. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1541. / Major Professor: Byron Massialas. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77432 |
| Contributors | Malave, Juana Mariana., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 118 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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