Variations In Background Characteristics Among Asian American Students of Different College Majors

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dc.contributor.advisorMcEwen, Marylu K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHinonangan, Margie Den_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-07-16T05:17:41Z
dc.date.available2004-07-16T05:17:41Z
dc.date.issued2004-05-28en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explored how Asian American college students with different majors vary by gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, degree of acculturation and perceived parental educational expectation using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). Significant differences were found between students' gender, ethnicity, home resources, perceived parental educational expectations and students' choice of major. Students' socioeconomic composite quartile score and generational status were not significant. The number of non-English proficient students was too small to test the null hypothesis. The findings provide a glimpse of the contextual elements that could be shaping the major choices of Asian American students. Educators need to be aware of the heterogeneity of the Asian American community and develop culturally sensitive interventions when working with this population (Leong & Gim-Chung, 1995). The inability to establish a causal connection and the small cell size of Pacific Islander students was a limitation for this study.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1677
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Higheren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Administrationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Guidance and Counselingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAsian American Studentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChoice of Majoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCollege Majoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledParental Expectationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHome Resourcesen_US
dc.titleVariations In Background Characteristics Among Asian American Students of Different College Majorsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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