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ERIC Number: EJ454109
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0167
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Cognitive Factors Predicting the Academic Achievement of Students in Engineering.
Hackett, Gail; And Others
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v39 n4 p527-38 Oct 1992
Examined relationships of measures of occupational and academic self-efficacy; vocational interests; outcome expectations; academic ability; and perceived stress, support, and coping to academic achievement of engineering/science majors (n=197). Self-efficacy for academic milestones, in combination with other academic and support variables, was strongest predictor of college academic achievement. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Coping, Engineering Education, Ethnicity, Expectation, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Mexican Americans, Prediction, Self Efficacy, Sex Differences, Social Cognition, Social Support Groups, Stress Variables, Vocational Interests
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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