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Factors Associated With the College Attendance Plans of Florida High School Seniors
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Student aid and college attendance : analysis of government intervention in the higher education market
… Chapter J estimates the effect of grant aid on college attendance. I exploit the variation in aid created by the elimination of the Social Security Student Benefit Program, which at its peak provided grants totaling $3.3 billion a year to one out of ten college students. I find that $ I 000 …
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Factors Influencing College Attendance of Appalachian Kentucky Students Participating in a Federal Educational Talent Search Program
… these students in the form of academic advising, college coaching, and personal enrichment. Since the enactment of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, there has been a burgeoning population of such programs like the TRIO family. </p> <p>The purpose of this study was three-fold. The first …
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The relationship between African American high school students' desire to attend college, their perceived likelihood to attend college and actual college entrollment
… and engagement on student’s desire to attend college and perceived likelihood of attending college and eventual college enrollment. Using waves I and III of the Adolescent Health dataset, the researcher explores how SES and individual high school experiences impact the desire and perceived …
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The Community College Concept in New Brunswick
… of this study was to determine if the community college concept in New Brunswick varied considerably from that generally established across the United States and Canada. If this were found to be true, an extension to the problem was to ascertain whether or not its particular concept contributed …
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Confronting the Obstacles: African Americans' Quest for Higher Education
… trends showing a similar gap in four-year college attendance. Furthermore, a logistic regression analysis revealed that socio-economic status, ability, school quality, parental expectations, teacher expectations, GPA, and students' self reported estimation of how far they were likely to go …
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Parental Influence on Academic Achievement: Undergraduate Students' Perspectives at a Virginia HBCU
… was to identify the perceptions of undergraduate college students regarding the types of supports that their parents/guardians provided to encourage their academic success, as defined by college attendance at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Virginia. The research was …
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Sex role definitions and selected educational experiences: an exploratory study
… as well as the research concerning the impact of college on students, it is suggested that the institution of education be further examined. In the present study the relationship between the sex role definitions of female undergraduate students and selected educational experiences (length of …
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"Experiencing ""Upward Bound"": An interrogation of cultural landscapes"
… from social and educational circumstances where college attendance has been neither expected nor encouraged."
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Does choosing to live in a discipline-based residential college make a difference in the engagement of university freshmen?
… living on-campus in discipline-based residential colleges, and first-generation college attendance status and the overall mean. No significant differences were found between respondent’s gender or race when compared to the overall mean engagement score. Multiple regression analysis revealed an …
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How home and school factors influenced college freshmen and sophomores to become first-generation college students
<p>A formal college education allows graduates to greatly increase their earning potential. Research has shown that first generation students make up 50% of the college population. This research investigated home and school factors that led to the decision of the selected first-generation college …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… to higher education by analyzing the impact of college attendance on the labor market outcomes of current and former welfare recipients. Chapter 3 focuses on publicly provided education at the primary and secondary levels, and estimates the impact of a teacher incentive pay program on student …
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A Profile of the Nontraditional College Student and Implications for Institutional Policies
… This study examined the growing number of college students outside the traditional eighteen to twenty-three year old age group often referred to as nontraditional students. For this study, nontraditional student was defined as any undergraduate student age twenty-five or older. The purpose …
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Financial aid and the college enrollment decision: a causal model
… types of postsecondary institutions: four year colleges and universities, two year junior colleges, community colleges, and vocational technical colleges. The path model is a set of structural equations that considers the college enrollment decision of the students to be a function of four …
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Experiences of nontraditional college students in a music education program
… to investigate the experiences of nontraditional college students (25 years of age or older with multiple life roles) majoring in music education. Four participants reported their university program experiences and reasons for pursuing music education in adulthood. Themes related to persistence in …
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Implication of Differences in Academic Achievement of Economically Disadvantaged Students on School Improvement Planning for Educational Leaders
… grade reading level as well as graduation and college attendance (Lesnick, Goerge, Smithgall, & Gwynne 2010). This qualitative study explored how the perspectives on improving reading achievement from parents, teachers, and principals affected school improvement decision-making by the …
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"It's Kind of a Funny Story...": Exploring Sexual Storytelling Among College Students
Sexual health among college students is in jeopardy. College aged men and women face risks associated with sexuality because of college attendance and gender. Through storytelling, college students convey their sexual experiences to their friends and peers, though this process is predominantly …
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Impacts of Parental Resources on Child Educational Outcomes: Assets and Mediating Pathways
… attainment from high school dropout to college degree attainment and: 2) the mediating roles played by parental involvement in child's education, child's educational expectations, and child's self-esteem in the impacts of parental economic resources on child's educational attainments. …
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