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Initial Effects of Desegregation on the Achievement Motivation of Negro Elementary School Children *

Initial Effects of Desegregation on the Achievement Motivation of Negro Elementary School Children * University of Michigan This paper will explore a school desegregation program to see what initial effects it had on Negro children’s achievement motivation. In so doing this paper will also provide some descriptive analyses of the achievement motivations of Negro youngsters in school settings with different racial balances. In the initial stage the desegregation program seems to have had positive effects on the achievement orientation of some children; for others, it seems to have had very little effect. Generally speaking, the results are complex, suggesting that methods for evoking a higher achievement orientation in Negro children will have to take a more particularistic account of the child-his sex, his age, the specific type of school setting. Even more important the results differ depending on how achievement motivation is assessed. Social planners will have to take these differences into account. The analyses in this paper were made possible through a unique research opportunity that was established by the public school system in a small midwestern city. Prior to the fall of 1965, there had been a problem of defacto segregation in that city, very much like that exist*The research in the study was sponsored by a grant (No. 6-1320) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Issues Wiley

Initial Effects of Desegregation on the Achievement Motivation of Negro Elementary School Children *

Veroff, Joseph; Peele, Stanton
Journal of Social Issues , Volume 25 (3) – Jul 1, 1969
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Wiley
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1969 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
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0022-4537
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1540-4560
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10.1111/j.1540-4560.1969.tb00607.x
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University of Michigan This paper will explore a school desegregation program to see what initial effects it had on Negro children’s achievement motivation. In so doing this paper will also provide some descriptive analyses of the achievement motivations of Negro youngsters in school settings with different racial balances. In the initial stage the desegregation program seems to have had positive effects on the achievement orientation of some children; for others, it seems to have had very little effect. Generally speaking, the results are complex, suggesting that methods for evoking a higher achievement orientation in Negro children will have to take a more particularistic account of the child-his sex, his age, the specific type of school setting. Even more important the results differ depending on how achievement motivation is assessed. Social planners will have to take these differences into account. The analyses in this paper were made possible through a unique research opportunity that was established by the public school system in a small midwestern city. Prior to the fall of 1965, there had been a problem of defacto segregation in that city, very much like that exist*The research in the study was sponsored by a grant (No. 6-1320)

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Journal of Social Issues – Wiley

Published: Jul 1, 1969

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