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Kim, Jungnam; Geesa, Rachel Louise; McDonald, Kaylee – Journal of College Access, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine how school counselors', and principals' primary counseling goals and expectations impact postsecondary enrollment in order to learn what best helps students achieve their postsecondary goals. It was found that school counselors' expectations of students were positively related to students' postsecondary…
Descriptors: Principals, School Counselors, Counseling Objectives, Administrator Role
Brigandi, Carla B.; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Schwartz, Jeremy – Gifted and Talented International, 2020
Large numbers of young people from underserved populations, including first-generation, low-income, and rural, are clearly capable of high levels of achievement but are failing to do so owing to lack of access and opportunities. The purpose of this study was to determine what characteristics of the Health Science Technology Academy (HSTA), a…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Educational Quality, Rural Areas, At Risk Students
Takeshita, Ryo; Imai, Moe – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
In recent times, the number of studies on non-cognitive skills has increased. Apart from using a score for noncognitive skills (gauged via a questionnaire), many of these investigations involve adult respondents who had already completed their educational careers at the time of the study in question. In this paper, using data on Japanese students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics, High School Students, College Attendance
Holland, Megan M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Although college access has increased, first-generation college students are still less likely to enroll in postsecondary education, and when they do enroll, are more likely to attend less selective schools compared to their peers whose parents are college-educated. In order to understand how first-generation students end up where they do, we must…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Choice, College Applicants, School Counselors
McGovern, Gina; Raffaelli, Marcela; Moreno Garcia, Crystal; Larson, Reed – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2020
To provide examples of culturally responsive practices used by leaders of a rural Latinx-serving youth program, this case study focused on a community youth program in a small, rural Midwestern town. Program leaders (one White man and one Latinx woman) were both middle-aged and had postsecondary degrees. Nine Latinx youth participants (four girls,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Rural Areas, Cultural Relevance, Adolescents
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2020
This is the full report. In 2019-2020, the program's third federally funded year, GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Austin served a cohort of 8th grade students (n = 2,546) across 11 middle schools. Nearly all GEAR UP students received support services relevant to college preparation. Evaluation findings…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, College Readiness, Undergraduate Study
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2020
This is the executive summary for a full report. In 2019-2020, the program's third federally funded year, GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Austin served a cohort of 8th grade students (n = 2,546) across 11 middle schools. Nearly all GEAR UP students received support services relevant to college…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, College Readiness, Undergraduate Study
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Miech, Richard A.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2020
This occasional paper presents subgroup findings from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study on levels of, and trends in, the use of a number of substances for nationally representative samples of high school graduates ages 19-30, "Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2018. Volume II, College Students & Adults…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Gender Differences, College Attendance, Geographic Regions
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental time and resource investments in the production of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes
Chrissy Holliday – ProQuest LLC, 2020
College-going culture represents the development of college aspiration within individuals, and also the provision of guidance and support to prepare students for college application, enrollment, and success (Achinstein, Curry, & Ogawa, 2015; Corwin & Tierney, 2007). First- generation students are of particular research interest because…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Experience, Educational Experience, Hispanic American Students
Zeyu Xu; Ben Backes; Amanda Oliveira; Dan Goldhaber – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
This study adds to the currently limited evidence base on the efficacy of interventions targeting non-college-ready high school students by examining the impact of Kentucky's Targeted Interventions (TI) program. We focus on interventions that students received under TI in the senior year of high school based on their 11th grade ACT test scores.…
Descriptors: Intervention, High School Students, College Preparation, Grade 11
Joshua Hyman – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
I conduct a statewide experiment in Michigan with nearly 50,000 high-achieving high school seniors. Treated students are mailed a letter encouraging them to consider college and providing them with the web address of a college information website. I find that very high-achieving, low-income students, and very high-achieving, minority students are…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Achievement, Information Dissemination, Low Income Students
Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Kleinert, Harold; Butler, Laura; Whaley, Barry – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Higher education is increasingly becoming an option for young adults with intellectual disability (ID). Although initial evaluations of postsecondary education for this population have been promising, a broader "quality of life" framework needs to be adopted in order to truly understand the impact of these programs. Moreover, researchers…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Longitudinal Studies, Research Needs, Higher Education
Zhang, Liang – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
In this study, I used American Community Survey (ACS) 2005-2015 data to examine the enrollment effect of the Post-9/11 GI Bill; the analysis resulted in three main findings: First, although the New GI Bill has increased overall college enrollment by about 3 percentage points on average, the effect was much larger immediately after the bill's…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Surveys, Enrollment Trends, Access to Education
Polesel, John; Leahy, Mary; Gillis, Shelley – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper is based on research into the destinations and aspirations of school leavers in Australia. It investigates the relationship between the transition to university for different groups of students and their own and their parents' and teachers' expectations. It draws on Bourdieu, Boudon, Nussbaum and others to investigate the way young…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Correlation