Parents of Traditionally Aged Community College Students: Communications and Choice

Autor/in	Bers, Trudy
Titel	Parents of Traditionally Aged Community College Students: Communications and Choice
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 46 (2005) 4, S.413-436 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-005-2968-z
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; College Students; Parent Role; College Choice; Social Capital; Grade Point Average; Credits; Parent Attitudes; Academic Ability; College Bound Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Collegestudent; Parental role; Elternrolle; Studienortwahl; Sozialkapital; Elternverhalten
Abstract	Five suburban community colleges in a metropolitan area collaborated on a survey to parents of high school graduates of the class of 2002 who attended the colleges in fall 2002. The study was undertaken to learn more about parents' roles in their students' selection of community colleges, to give insights and information about this important community college constituency, and to assist community colleges to shape more effective ways to foster positive and supportive opinions among parents of potential students. Parents want the community college to provide students with credits and grade point averages enabling transfer, overestimate their students' academic skills as measured by course placement tests, engaged in a number of college-choice activities, and indicate that factors associated with lifestyle and money were major reasons for selecting the community college. Associations between parents' social capital and perceptions of their students' academic abilities were found for a number of dependent variables examined. The study also revealed important differences in how participating institutions record and calculate key measures such as credits earned and grade point averages. (Author).
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