TY  - BOOK
N2  - "In The Source of the River, Douglas Massey and his colleagues investigate the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. They explain how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students from differing racial and ethnic origins and differing social classes." "Drawing on a major new source of data - the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen - the authors undertake a comprehensive analysis of the diverse pathways by which whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians enter American higher education. Theirs is the first study to document the different characteristics that students bring to campus and to trace out the influence of these differences on later academic performance. They show that black and Latino students do not enter college disadvantaged by a lack of self-esteem. In fact, overconfidence is more common than low self-confidence among some minority students. Despite this, minority students are adversely affected by racist stereotypes of intellectual inferiority. Although academic preparation is the strongest predictor of college performance, shortfalls in academic preparation are themselves largely a matter of socioeconomic disadvantage and racial segregation."--Jacket.
AB  - "In The Source of the River, Douglas Massey and his colleagues investigate the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. They explain how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students from differing racial and ethnic origins and differing social classes." "Drawing on a major new source of data - the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen - the authors undertake a comprehensive analysis of the diverse pathways by which whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians enter American higher education. Theirs is the first study to document the different characteristics that students bring to campus and to trace out the influence of these differences on later academic performance. They show that black and Latino students do not enter college disadvantaged by a lack of self-esteem. In fact, overconfidence is more common than low self-confidence among some minority students. Despite this, minority students are adversely affected by racist stereotypes of intellectual inferiority. Although academic preparation is the strongest predictor of college performance, shortfalls in academic preparation are themselves largely a matter of socioeconomic disadvantage and racial segregation."--Jacket.
T1  - The source of the river :the social origins of freshmen at America's selective colleges and universities /
DA  - ©2003.
CY  - Princeton, N.J. :
AU  - Massey, Douglas S.
CN  - LC208.8
PB  - Princeton University Press,
PP  - Princeton, N.J. :
PY  - ©2003.
ID  - 1408864
KW  - College students
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Étudiants
KW  - Minorités
KW  - Succès scolaire
KW  - Démocratisation de l'enseignement
KW  - Academic achievement.
KW  - College students
KW  - Educational equalization.
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Collegestudent
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - Sociale herkomst.
KW  - Eerstejaarsstudenten.
KW  - Hoger onderwijs.
KW  - College students
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - Educational equalization
SN  - 0691113262
SN  - 9780691113265
SN  - 069112597X
SN  - 9780691125978
TI  - The source of the river :the social origins of freshmen at America's selective colleges and universities /
ER  -