Year 7 Pupils' Views of the Future

Table 9

Mean scores (max=10) of influences on “How I think about the future”.

Encouragement from parents/carers	8.29
The job I want to get one day	6.59
Teachers’ views on what I am good at	6.01
Whether I enjoy school	5.99
How hard I find school work	5.73
What I see on television	5.11
Older siblings: how well they have done at school	4.79
What I read on the internet	4.48
What I read in magazines	3.84
What my friends think of school and how they behave in class	3.70