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Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Skans, Oskar Nordström – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT [scholastic aptitude test] system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Choice, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
Tori L. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation examines how high school racial segregation moderates the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational attainment outcomes among Black, white, and Hispanic students. Based on previous research, I classify schools as being racially isolated white (0-10%Black and Hispanic), majority white diverse (10.1 to 49.9% Black and…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, High School Students, Ethnicity, Racial Differences
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Fuller, Edward J.; Young, Michelle D. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Current percentages of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) principals largely mirror those of the teacher workforce. They, however, diverge from student demographics. We provide insight into these racial imbalances by charting principal preparation patterns and demonstrating the typical leadership pipeline in Texas. In doing so, we draw…
Descriptors: Principals, Ethnic Diversity, Minority Groups, Disproportionate Representation
Pence, Lori G. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the rural schooling experience of ten high school students attending a small high school located in a rural county in Indiana regarding college and postsecondary aspirations. Specifically, do they have a positive, negative, or neutral view of college? Who or what is influencing their perceptions, values,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Rural Schools, Student Experience, Educational Experience
Heslop, Joanne – Student Transitions Project, 2021
This report features selected research findings on student mobility in the British Columbia (B.C) public post-secondary system, using data from the most recent annual Student Transitions Project (STP) submission from Fall of 2020. All B.C. postsecondary registrants in B.C.'s 25 public post-secondary institutions from 2002/2003 to Fall 2020 are…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Ogut, Burhan; Bohrnstedt, George; Broer, Markus – American Institutes for Research, 2021
Ensuring that students are ready for college when they graduate from high school has important implications for students, educators, education policymakers, and other stakeholders. This study focuses on an examination of the relationship between the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) grade 12 mathematics assessment and college…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Mathematics Tests
Dave E. Marcotte; Taylor Delaney – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
How have changes in the costs of enrolling for full-time study at public 2-year and 4-year colleges have affected the decisions about whether and where to enroll in college? We exploit local differences in the growth of tuition at community colleges and public 4-year colleges to study the impact of public higher education costs on the…
Descriptors: Costs, Tuition, Community Colleges, State Colleges
Williams, Janelle L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One in four Black Americans who earned a Bachelor's degree, in America, received their degree from a Historically Black Colleges or Universities. (Gasman et al., 2007; Williams & Ashley, 2005). In 2013, Frank Brogan, The Chancellor of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education asked "If kids of color can go anywhere, why are they…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Enrollment, Undergraduate Students, Phenomenology
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Lee, Jungmin – Community College Review, 2023
Objectives/Research Question: This study aims to explore who transfers between 2-year colleges (lateral transfer students) and how these students fare in terms of degree attainment. More specifically, this research explores two research questions: (1) What are the predictors of lateral transfer? (2) Is lateral transfer associated with degree…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, Educational Attainment, Academic Degrees
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Li, Ian W.; Jackson, Denise; Carroll, David R. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Higher education participation has increased worldwide given policies devoted to widening participation for under-represented groups, including the use of alternative entry pathways to university. It is, however, unknown if students admitted via alternative pathways perform well academically. This study uses data for 81,874 students from 16…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Status, Higher Education
Taylor K. Odle; Jennifer A. Delaney – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Complexity and uncertainty in the college application process contribute to longstanding racial and socioeconomic disparities in enrollment. We leverage a large-scale experiment that combines an early guarantee of college admission with a proactive nudge, fee waiver, and structural application simplification to test the impacts of emerging…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Social Differences, Racial Differences, College Admission
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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
The literature on the relationship between socioeconomic background (SES) and university education is inconsistent. Some studies conclude SES is important to university entry and course completion, others find trivial SES effects, net of students' prior performance, and a third group concludes that SES effects are important and policy relevant…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Torres-García, Adrianna; Okpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This memo adds to the growing literature on the transition to college for young people in foster care, focusing specifically on issues of preparedness to enter higher education. First, the authors assess the extent to which youths' perceptions of their own educational preparedness and their child welfare workers' perceptions of their educational…
Descriptors: Foster Care, College Readiness, Self Concept, Child Welfare
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Garcia-Olp, Michelle; Nelson, Chris; Saiz, LeRoy – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2022
This article illustrates the shared work of Indigenous scholars and community members rooted in Indigenous knowledge toward the goal of decolonizing mathematics education. Furthermore, this study highlights "IndigiLogix: Mathematics|Culture|Environment (M|C|E)" programming, which is a mathematics precollege program created to advance…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Indigenous Knowledge, College Preparation
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Brookover, Dana L.; Johnson, Kaprea – Journal of College Access, 2022
The current study utilized the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, from the National Center for Education Statistics, to conduct a longitudinal investigation into how access to school counseling impacts postsecondary outcomes. Findings indicate that school counselor time spent college readiness counseling, in addition to lower student…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Counseling, Outcomes of Education, College Readiness
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