Advantage and Disadvantage
A Profile of American Youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11083442 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan C Kerckhoff (corresponding author), R Darrell Bock, Elsie G J Moore |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 747 |
| Publication date | 1988-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2073559 |
| OpenAlex | W2063744656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
Based upon a large body of factual information, a critical view of the cognitive skills and potentials of young people in the United States in the 1980s. The data is analyzed using the most current statistical techniques and discussed from a broad psychological, sociological and educational perspective. The respondents to the survey were obtained by direct visits to households, not through convenient institutional sources, therefore allowing for a representative national sample. As such, the study typifies a complete cross-section of America's youth both in and out of school. The young people included in the sample were administered the ASVAB, a test battery which consists of ten separately timed and scored tests which assess a wide range of knowledge and skills from English-language reading and vocabulary, through secondary school mathematics understanding and quantitative competance, to quite specific vocational knowledge in technical fields. Differences in the profiles across the ten tests provide some of the more interesting results of the analysis
Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Law · Psychology
Fallacy of a Single Model for School Achievement
Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight
Toward the Future Schooling of Girls
Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
Full-Information Item Factor Analysis
Why are children in the same family so different from one another?
Evaluating the seven-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale short-form
Filhos de imigrantes nos Estados Unidos
The Effect of Income on Child Development
Changes in the Black-White Gap in Achievement Test Scores
Education, Ability, and Civic Engagement in the Contemporary United States
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
Substance use and abuse among adolescent runaways
Cognitive Attainment Among Firstborn Children of Adolescent Mothers
The Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation in America
Ethnic Differences in IQ Scores
The Geography of Opportunity and Unemployment
The Geography of Opportunity and Unemployment
Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance
| Citations per year | 0.49 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2013 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |