Project Talent: An Overview of Characteristics and Performance of Students from Immigrant Families

• Activity Number: 520
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Zhulin He*+ and Alan F. Karr and Michael P. Cohen and Deanna Lyter Achorn and Danielle Battle
• Companies: and NISS and American Institutes for Research and American Institutes for Research and American Institutes for Research
• Keywords: project TALENT ; survey data analysis ; immigrant

Abstract

Project TALENT is a large, nationally representative longitudinal study conducted by the American Institutes for Research from 1960 to 1974. Among the participated students, nearly 40,000 students were from immigrant families. (That is about 10% of the participating students.) Many of their parents immigrated to the United States during or after world war II. One of our interests is to analyze differences between students from immigrant families and non-immigrant families in family background and student performance in the 1960 base year survey. Another interest is to investigate how immigrant status affected students' future education, career path and personal life following graduation from high school.