Abstract
When public school students enter the tenth grade in Hawaii, they are faced with their first important broad educational decision, a choice of an educational program. Those planning speciali zation in a field of science generally enroll in the college preparatory scientific program. This study is concerned with identifying distinctive determi nants of the choice of a college preparatory sci ence program by ninth-grade males within a few months of entering high school.2 The present paper is one of a series of studies on the determinants of educational-vocational choice in Hawaii at various educational levels (1). In a correlate investigation of the choice of a sci ence program by sixth-grade males, it was estab lished that boys who planned on a college prepara tory science program differed significantly from their peers in that they: 1) were strongly inter ested in science; 2) had little interest in art or music; and 3) attributed the greatest value to ob taining satisfaction from their field of study. National-ethnic ancestry twas also found to be as sociated with science program choice (10). The present study was undertaken to discover what interests, values, and influences ninth-grade boys would report as determinants of their choice of a science program. A secondary purpose was to determine whether certain personal and socio economic attributes were related to the reported determinants of program choice.
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