Differences in family influences on college attendance plans for male and female ninth graders

Stage, Frances K.; Hossler, Don

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“…Finally, the fourth section aimed to determine factors which students took into • The first stage is the predisposition phase in which students determine whether they would like to continue their education beyond the secondary level or not. This phase is affected by student ability, achievement, socioeconomic status, parent, peer, educational activities and school characteristics (Tillery 1973;Litten 1982;Stage and Hossler 1989;Nora and Cabrera 1992;Somers et al 1999). …”

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Search, Choice and Persistence for Higher Education: A Case Study in Turkey

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Oktay

2006

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study was to investigate students' behaviors in search and choice during university placement, and also to examine how students' choice process affects on their persistence decisions. Participants in the study were 51 second year students studying in the Department of Chemistry Education of Kazim Karabekir Education Faculty, in Ataturk University, in Turkey. The survey instrument used in this study employed a scale to identify sources of information benefited, types of information obtained and factors which students took into consideration in choice process. In addition to this, a semi-structured interview was used to take profound information about this process. The study indicates that most of the students choose their program by an inadequate search process.Findings also indicate that the students show negative behaviors in their decision making process. Finally, a persistence phase is suggested for college or university choice process.

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Search, Choice and Persistence for Higher Education: A Case Study in Turkey

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2006

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“…For example, socioeconomic status (SES) has a significant impact on college choice. Several studies have found that students from high SES background are more likely to attend college than students from low SES backgrounds (Hossler, Schmit, & Vesper, 1999;Hossler & Stage, 1992;McDonough, 1997;Paulsen, 1990;Stage & Hossler, 1989;Tuttle, 1981). In addition, family and peers play a large role college choice.…”

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“…Parental education matters as well. Students with parents who have more formal education are more likely to have college aspirations and attend college (Bouse & Hossler, 1991;Conklin & Dailey, 1981;Davies & Kandel, 1981;Hossler & Stage, 1992;Stage & Hossler, 1989;Tuttle, 1981). Likewise, students who have peers attending college are more likely to attend college (Carpenter & Fleishman, 1987;Davies & Kandel, 1981;Tillery, 1973).…”

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Understanding graduate school aspirations: the effect of good teaching practices

2015

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This study examined the effects of good teaching practices on post-baccalaureate degree aspirations using logistic regression techniques on a multi-institutional, longitudinal sample of students at four-year colleges and universities. Using College Choice and College Outcomes models as a theoretical foundation, I examined whether eight good teaching practices (non-classroom interactions with faculty, prompt feedback, frequency of interactions with faculty, teaching clarity and organization, challenging classes and high faculty expectations, frequency of higher-order exams and assignments, academic challenge and effort, and integrated ideas, information, and experiences) influenced post-baccalaureate degree aspirations at the end of four academic years, while controlling for students' background characteristics and institutional characteristics that are theoretically associated with aspirations. Using pre-test and post-test data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS), the findings suggest that good teaching practices are positively related to undergraduate students' aspirations for graduate education. This study contributes to college outcome models by emphasizing the importance of faculty to the undergraduate experience. Finally, this study has implications for higher education policy, including practical applications for those involved with undergraduate and graduate education, including administrators, faculty, staff, and students.

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“…Additional evidence suggests that the ''concerted cultivation'' also documented by Lareau (2003) is not limited to the elementary school years. By high school, households where at least one parent attended college report discussing children's educational progress and aspirations more often (Engle, 2007;Horn & Nuñez, 2000;Plank & Jordan, 2001;Stage & Hossler, 1989). Access to a parent with personal knowledge of how to successfully plan for the college transition has been linked to advantageous information about what courses a student should take in secondary school, how to search for institutions, and what strategies to pursue in order to gain admission.…”

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Unequal Advantages

Lawrence

2016

American Educational Research Journal

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Researchers and policymakers argue that expanding college access is one way to increase opportunities for students who would become the first in their families to enroll in a postsecondary institution. This article uses measures of educational attainment in the previous two generations to consider whether parents' own histories of educational mobility and reproduction explain inequalities in how students prepare for college. Results suggest differences across generational categories in the types of colleges to which students apply and in the effects of parent-student discussions about topics related to college planning. These differences are explained by distinguishing the resources some families acquire through upward mobility from the resources that accumulate in families where educational privileges have been previously reproduced.KEYWORDS: college entry, educational mobility and reproduction, multigenerational inequalities, parents and families P arents' educational attainments are closely associated with the postsecondary opportunities students pursue. Students who have a parent who attended a four-year college have been shown to benefit from that parent's knowledge of how to ''continue [the] family tradition' ' (Terenzini et al., 1994, p. 63) of higher education. As a result, the pathways leading to college for these students have been called ''simple, linear, and predictable'' (Hossler, Schmit, & Vesper, 1999, p. 2). In contrast, ''first-generation students'' are less likely to complete the necessary steps to continue their educational careers after high school, in part because their parents cannot share personal experiences about applying or transitioning to college (Cabrera & La Nasa, 2001;Engle, 2007;Goldrick-Rab, 2007;Horn & MATTHEW LAWRENCE is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202; e-mail: mjclawrence@aya.yale.edu. His research focuses on multigenerational approaches to educational inequality and prospective models of educational reproduction.

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Differences in family influences on college attendance plans for male and female ninth graders

Cited by 150 publications

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Search, Choice and Persistence for Higher Education: A Case Study in Turkey

Search, Choice and Persistence for Higher Education: A Case Study in Turkey

Understanding graduate school aspirations: the effect of good teaching practices

Unequal Advantages

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