Análisis Multivariante.

1. Tell me a little bit about your thoughts on education? What are its benefits for the average person in the U.S.?

2. How do you expect to benefit from education personally? Be as specific as you can. Give me some ideas you have? What do you envision?

3. How far do you expect your education to take you?

4. Does education pay off the same way for everyone in the U.S.?

5. At this point, what are your long-term goals in life?

6. How do you select courses you take in school? What are some of the deciding factors in your course decisions?

7. Do you put the same energy into all your courses (both mandatory and elective ones)? Are you more strategic about your time and effort? How do you prioritize?

8. How do you know you have the right set of courses for yourself?

9. How do you select extracurricular activities?

10. Do you put the same energy in all extracurricular activities? Are you more strategic about your time and effort? How do you prioritize?

11. How much do you know about the Advanced Placement (AP) program? How did you hear about it?

12. Are you currently taking AP courses? Do you plan to take AP courses?

Section 1 (short answer)

1. Do you feel education is the key to success in the future? Why or Why not?

2. If everyone in America gets a good education, can we end poverty? Why or Why not? 3. Does achievement and effort in school lead to job success later on? Why or Why not? 4. The way for poor people to become middle class is for them to get a good education? 5. Do you believe that school success is not necessarily a clear path to a better life? Why

or Why not?

6. Do you agree that getting a good education is a practical road to success for young people, despite race and gender? Why or Why not?

7. Do you believe that education really pays off in the future for minorities? Non- minorities? Why or Why not?

Section 2 (short answer)

1. What are your long-term plans? 5 years? 10 years? From now

2. What courses have you taken that you feel have best prepared you to meet your career/life goals?

a. Do you feel that you have adequate access to the courses you need, in order to be successful?

3. What extracurricular activities do you participate in?

4. In your opinion, what is the purpose of a high school diploma?

a. Do you think it matters how successful a student is in high school? 5. How much do you know about the Advanced Placement (AP) program?

a. How did you hear about it?

6. Are you currently taking AP courses? Why or Why not? 7. Do you plan to take AP courses? Why or Why not?

8. What challenges (racial, economic, or other) do you expect/anticipate you will face after high school and beyond?

9. How far do you expect to go in life? Career? a. Why do you feel that way?

b. Where/How did you come to feel this way

10. Do you feel that post-secondary opportunities are similar for minorities and non- minorities?

11. Do you feel that you and a white student of the same level as you, would have the same, more, or less, post-secondary opportunities as you?

a. Why or Why not?

12. Do you think it matters how a student gets a high school diploma? (Traditional, GED, Alternative)

13. Does grade point average, attendance, citizenship, courses, matter, towards a person’s success?

a. Why or Why not?

b. What affect do these things have on success? Section 3 (short answer)

1. Based on your life experiences, do you feel that people like you are paid or promoted according to our education? Why or Why not?

2. Do you feel that all you need for your future is to read and write? Why or Why not? 3. Even though your parents tell you to get a good education in order to get a good job,

do you feel they face barriers to job success.

4. When your teachers give you homework, how often do your friends think of completing it. Why?

5. People in my family haven’t been treated fairly at work no matter how much education they have. Why or Why not?

Section 4 (single-word answers) 1. Educational expectations:

a. Do you feel that school is challenging? 2. Treatment by teachers:

a. Do you agree (1) when you work hard on schoolwork, your teachers praise your efforts? (2) In class you often feel “put down” by your teachers, (3) most of your teachers really listen to what you have to say?

3. Attitude towards teachers:

a. Do you agree that (1) The teaching is good at your school, (2) teachers are interested in students?

4. Support:

a. Do you agree that teachers provide support for student success? b. Do you feel that your teachers are supportive of your education? 5. Satisfaction:

a. Do you agree with the following statement about why you go to school? I get a feeling of satisfaction from doing what I am supposed to do in class

6. Good Student:

a. Do you think that other students see you as a good student? 7. Trouble maker:

a. Do you think other students see you as a troublemaker? 8. Try Hard:

a. How often do you try as hard as you can in? i. Math

ii. English iii. History iv. Science? 9. Working for grades ok:

a. Do you agree It’s ok to work hard for good grades? 10. SES Status:

a. How many bedrooms do you have in your home? b. Do you live in a house or an apartment/townhouse? 11. Mother/Father household:

a. Do you Live with your biological mother, biological father, or, both? 12. Number of siblings

a. Total number of siblings

13. Number of school changes while in high school

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