Download or read book UNDERSTANDING THE COLLEGE CHOICE PROCESS OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN AN EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL written by Rebecca J. Mosely and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this case study was to understand the college choice process of students enrolled in an early college high school program. The program studied enrolled first-generation students beginning in 9th grade in courses that counted towards both high school and college credits. The goal of the program was to have students graduate from high school with an associate degree. I conducted individual interviews with 9 seniors enrolled in the program to better understand how they chose what they wanted to do after high school, as well as to understand in what ways participation in the program and attending college courses influenced their decisions. Additionally, I explored the ways that students saw their identity influencing their choices for ongoing education. After I completed and transcribed the interviews, I engaged with the data by reading it repeatedly to explore patterns and themes within student responses. I coded those themes and then also utilized documents that I analyzed to support or challenge what I had heard. I then took those codes and made connections to the research questions I asked to describe the findings of this study. The findings of this study indicate the important role that personal relationships play in the college choice process, with participants sharing how relationships with faculty, staff, and peers influenced their success in the program as well as their belief in their ability to succeed in continued educational endeavors. Additionally, students shared the importance of taking college course on a college campus for their understanding of how college works, and for increasing their confidence in their ability to succeed in college. Placing this program on a college campus also enabled students to participate in extracurricular activities and utilize resources on campus. These findings indicate the important ways that communities and higher education institutions can work together to increase access to higher education for students who have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education. In addition, these findings indicate important factors to consider when designing these educational opportunities.
Download or read book The College Choice Process written by Ronald Hebert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the role of parents in freshman, first generation scholarship recipients' access to higher education. Three overarching goals guide the research: To gain knowledge and a better understanding of the college choice process of freshman, first generation scholarship recipients; to better understand the role of parents in the college choice process of these students; to utilize that knowledge to inform the practice of college and university admissions offices in improving access to higher education for other first generation college students. This dissertation does this by addressing three research questions: What perceptions do first year, first generation scholarship recipients at The University of Alabama have about the role their parents played in their decision-making process to pursue post-secondary attendance; What perceptions do first year, first generation scholarship recipients at The University of Alabama have about the role their parents played in their decision-making on what institutions to consider attending; What perceptions do first year, first generation scholarship recipients at The University of Alabama have about the role their parents played in their ultimate decision to matriculate at a post-secondary institution. Grounded in the work of Hossler and Gallagher (1987), the study evaluates the college choice process utilizing the three distinct phases of the Hossler and Gallagher (1987) Three-Phase Model of College Choice.
Download or read book African Americans and College Choice written by Kassie Freeman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the influence of family and school on African American students' college decision-making processes.
Download or read book Understanding the College choice Process written by A. F. and S. M. LaNasa Cabrera and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choosing Colleges written by Patricia M. McDonough and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.
Download or read book College Choice written by Michael B. Paulsen and published by School of Education and Human Development University. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses enrollment planning by colleges and universities as it concerns the understanding of why students choose to attend one particular college over another. First, the past responses of colleges to enrollment-threatening changes are presented. Next, an explanation is given of why knowledge of student college choice behavior is important for enrollment planning, student marketing, and recruitment. Then, the conceptual foundations for the study of college choice behavior (psychology, sociology, economics) are discussed, followed by an explanation of why it is important to understand what determines enrollment fluctuations, such as an increasing job market or economic recession. Micro-level studies of college choice behavior, which are used to estimate the effects of institutional and student characteristics on the probability that a particular individual will choose a particular college, are examined. Finally, information related to the following questions is presented and discussed: (1) "what factors are important to students of nontraditional age in making college decisions?" (2) "what are the phases of the college choice process?" (3) "what factors are important in creating a desire to attend college?" (4) "why is the college search and application phase so important?" and (5) "how can an institution more effectively manage enrollment in the selection and attendance phase?" Contains an index and 227 references. (GLR).
Download or read book Going to College written by Don Hossler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors explore how students and their parents negotiate these important decisions. Family background, finances, education, information—all influence students' plans after high school and the career paths they pursue, as do the more subtle messages delivered by parents and counselors which shape adolescents' self-expectations. For high school guidance counselors, college admissions counselors, parents and teachers, and public policy makers, this book is a valuable resource that explains the decision-making process and helps adults to help students make appropriate choices. The authors identify predisposition, search, and choice as the three stages in the student decision-making process. Predisposition refers to the plans students develop for education or work after they graduate from high school. The search stage involves students discovering and evaluating a variety of colleges and universities. In the choice stage, students choose a school to attend from among a list of institutions that are being seriously considered. Understanding exactly how students move through the predisposition, search, and choice stages of the college decision-making process can help students and parents prepare themselves for this process and consider a wider array of options. For education professionals, understanding this process can lead to new initiatives to guide students and families effectively—by providing better incentives for college savings, for example, or devising more effective early information programs about postsecondary education. Going to College is the first book to seriously study over an extended period the decisions that have a pervasive and lasting impact on individual careers, livelihoods, and lifestyles. The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement—in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.
Download or read book At the Intersection written by Robert Longwell-Grice and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of first-generation college students are not monolithic. The nexus of identities matter, and this book is intended to challenge the reader to explore what it means to be a first-generation college student in higher education. Designed for use in classrooms and for use by the higher education practitioner on a college campus today, At the Intersections will be of value to the reader throughout their professional career.The book is divided into four parts with chapters of research and theory interspersed with thought pieces to provide personal stories to integrate the research and theory into lived experience. Each thought piece ends with questions to inspire readers to engage with the topic.Part One: Who is a First-generation College Student? provides the reader an entrée into the topic, with up-to-date data on both four-year and two-year colleges. Part One ends with a thought piece that asks the reader to pull together some of the big ideas before moving on to look more closely at students’ identities.Part Two: The Intersection of Identity shares the research, experience and thoughts of authors in relation to the individual and overlapping identities of LGBT, low-income, white, African-American, Latinx, Native American, undocumented, female, and male students who are all also first-generation college students. Part Three: Programs and Practices is an introduction to practices, policies and programs across the country. This section offers promise and direction for future work as institutions try to find a successful array of approaches to make the campus an inclusive place for the diverse population of first-generation college students.
Download or read book Understanding the College Choice Process of United States Military Affiliated Transfer Students written by Emily Ives and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the college choice process of transfer student veterans who are currently enrolled in a public research university. The research presented in this dissertation utilized both quantitative and qualitative strategies to identify key factors in students' college choice process. This study focuses on the following two research questions: What are the demographic, military, and educational characteristics of veterans who have transferred to a public research university, and what factors do student veterans, who have transferred to a research university, identify as influential in either supporting or hindering their efforts to apply to and ultimately decide to enroll in a public research university. The study was conducted in two phases, the first being an email survey followed up by a second phase which included in-person interviews with a subset of the surveyed population. The data were analyzed using Hossler and Gallagher's three-stage model to understand and explain the college process of the military-affiliated transfer student group. The findings of the research indicate that the demographic, background, and military experiences of sample participants were similar to those of national studies of the student veteran population. In addition, the findings of the research indicate that military-affiliated transfer students attending public research universities value academic factors over non-academic factors in their college search process, which differs from previous studies focusing on transfer student veteran populations.
Download or read book College Choice in America written by Charles F. Manski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most crucial choice a high school graduate makes is whether to attend college or to go to work. Here is the most sophisticated study of the complexities behind that decision. Based on a unique data set of nearly 23,000 seniors from more than 1,300 high schools who were tracked over several years, the book treats the following questions in detail: Who goes to college? Does low family income prevent some young people from enrolling, or does scholarship aid offset financial need? How important are scholastic aptitude scores, high school class rank, race, and socioeconomic background in determining college applications and admissions? Do test scores predict success in higher education? Using the data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, the authors present a set of interrelated analyses of student and institutional behavior, each focused on a particular aspect of the process of choosing and being chosen by a college. Among their interesting findings: most high school graduates would be admitted to some four-year college of average quality, were they to apply; applicants do not necessarily prefer the highest-quality school; high school class rank and SAT scores are equally important in college admissions; federal scholarship aid has had only a small effect on enrollments at four-year colleges but a much stronger effect on attendance at two-year colleges; the attention paid to SAT scores in admissions is commensurate with the power of the scores in predicting persistence to a degree. This clearly written book is an important source of information on a perpetually interesting topic.
Download or read book Understanding the Educational and Familial Context of the Successful College Choice Process for Urban High School Students written by Sonya K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This qualitative case study utilized Swail's Integrated Model of Student Success to discover how the structures, practices, and discourses at an urban charter high school affected the college aspirations and decisions of students of color from low-income households who matriculated to four-year institutions immediately after high school. This discovery took place by exploring the influence of educational and familial resources and support on students' college choice process and how students experienced and used these resources and support to successfully navigate the transition to college. Data for this study included pre- and post-matriculation interviews with eight low-income students of color who graduated from an urban charter high school after four years of attendance and immediately enrolled in a four-year institution. Data also included interview transcripts from students' parents, six of their teachers, and their counselor and principal. Findings from this study revealed that, for the most part, educational and familial resources and support were complementary and facilitated students' progression through the college choice continuum. The school's college-going culture reinforced students' predispositions toward postsecondary education. High quality instruction in rigorous college-preparatory classes and caring, supportive relationships with teachers and other school personnel helped students remain on track for four-year admissions. Students who were on track for four-year admissions were provided more extensive college planning resources that facilitated their college searches and choices. Parents encouraged their children to pursue postsecondary education at four-year institutions because of the financial benefits. The majority of parents were not high school graduates, but all were willing to provide whatever financial and emotional support they could to ensure that their children fulfilled their educational goals. These findings suggest the need for a national policy mandating a college preparatory curriculum for all students and for schools to provide college planning resources that complement those provided in the home so all students have an equal opportunity to reap the benefits of a four-year postsecondary education.
Download or read book How Students Choose a College written by Kimberli R. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how current internet-based resources are affecting the college choice process. An explanatory mixed methods design was used, and the study involved collecting qualitative data after a quantitative phase to explain the quantitative data in greater depth. An additional study was completed two years later, which allowed for additional comparison between the two studies. Data were collected via surveys of students at the University of California, Irvine to identify the types of internet-based resources being used by students to investigate colleges and the impact of each on college choice. Frequency, t-test, and ANOVA tests revealed students used college search websites less in 2011 than in 2009 and use social media website more in 2011 than in 2009. The second, qualitative phase of the study was conducted with students selected because of their answers in the quantitative phase. In this explanatory follow-up, the qualitative data was sought to explain the quantitative data by providing additional detail about the student experience of choosing a college. The qualitative research showed students find strongest influence in their college choice through traditional resources and external factors rather than internet resources. The results of both the quantitative and qualitative phase were integrated and interpreted to complete the findings. Implications and future research possibilities are presented.
Download or read book Applying Choosing and Enrolling in Higher Education written by Miguel Angel Ceja and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choosing College written by Michael B. Horn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away the noise to help you understand why you’re going to school. What's driving you? What are you trying to accomplish? Once you know why, the book will help you make better choices. The research in this book illustrates that choosing a school is complicated. By constructing more than 200 mini-documentaries of how students chose different postsecondary educational experiences, the authors explore the motivations for how and why people make the decisions that they do at a much deeper, causal level. By the end, you’ll know why you’re going and what you’re really chasing. The book: Identifies the five different Jobs for which students hire postsecondary education Allows you to see your true options for what’s next Offers guidance for how to successfully choose your pathway Illuminates how colleges and entrepreneurs can build better experiences for each Job The authors help readers understand not what job students want out of college, but what "Job" students are hiring college to do for them.
Download or read book The Structure of College Choice written by Robert Zemsky and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The College Choice Process of Deaf Students at a Residential School for the Deaf written by Nicholas Zerlentes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an increasing number of students pursuing a postsecondary education, colleges are looking at how to attract and keep students in school as states have increased accountability on colleges ensuring students are successfully obtaining degrees. One of the keys in this process is understanding how college choice may affect students' ability to successfully graduate with degrees. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how Deaf students come to a decision on which college they attend. Many studies have examined the college choice phenomenon for first-generation students, Students of Color, students of low socioeconomic status, and undocumented students. These studies have investigated how parent education background, cost of attendance and financial aid, reputation, location, and majors offered affect the decision-making process. With only 17% of Deaf individuals obtaining a bachelor's degree compared to 32% for their hearing peers (Garberoglio, Cawthon, & Sales, 2017), there exists a clear need to see how this college choice process may affect their long-term success in college. Through individual interviews with high school students and staff, Deaf students' college choice process was examined through the combined framework of Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, and Community Cultural Wealth. Findings revealed that participants generally aspired to pursue higher education at the encouragement of their families, but were limited when creating their college choice sets. Participants were not knowledgeable of the various types of colleges to choose from and did not know the names of specific colleges that had large Deaf student populations. Campus visits had a significant impact on participants' final college choice, but completing applications became difficult for some due to challenges with writing. Participants and their parents also had little understanding of the finances involved with a college education. The significance of the findings can perhaps lead to different educational settings of Deaf students, particularly schools for the Deaf, to reevaluate how they support students as they navigate the college choice process to ensure they persist in college and graduate.
Download or read book Studying Latinx a o Students in Higher Education written by Nichole M. Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the diverse Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education. Offering innovative approaches to understand the asset-based contributions of Latinx/a/o students and the communities they come from, this book showcases scholars from various disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, higher education, history, gender studies, and beyond. Chapter authors argue that various forms of knowledge and culturally relevant methodologies can help advance and promote the success and navigation of Latinx/a/o students. The contributors of this book challenge the deficit framing often found in higher education, and expand conceptualizations, theories, and methodologies used in the study of Latinx/a/o student populations to incorporate AfroLatinx/a/o perspectives, center Central American students in research, and bring Undocumented Critical Theory into the conversation. This important work provides a guide for higher education and student affairs scholars and practitioners, helping create knowledge to better understand Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education.
