Activity Involvement and Pathways to Educational Attainment

Investigator:   Jacquelynne S. Eccles

An increasingly broad range of research provides both theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that positive activities promote the kind of learning and development that enables yet to reach their full potential. However, in addition to knowing that activates have important consequences fro positive youth development (e.g. educational attainment), we need more information on (a) what kinds of activities work best for which kinds of youth, (b) what factors move youth into and out of which kinds of activities, and ( c ) what processes mediate the link between youth activity involvement and long-term outcomes. Traditional variable -centered approaches have provided evidence about many of the important personal and social factors related to different kinds of activity involvement, but we still have quite limited understanding about how these factors and activities operate together within a dynamic, integrated , person-in-context system. The person-centered approach we plan to use can help full this gap and provide the basis for finely tuned, targeted, and less expensive intervention strategies.

Funding Period: 06/01/2005 to 05/31/2009

PSC Research Theme:

School, Returns to Education (Human Capital, Labor and Wealth)


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Stratification in US Higher Education
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