Baccalaureate Success of Vertical Transfer Students: The Impact of Geography, Gender, Age, and Risk

Autor/inn/en	Freeman, Melissa L.; Conley, Valerie Martin
Titel	Baccalaureate Success of Vertical Transfer Students: The Impact of Geography, Gender, Age, and Risk
Quelle	(2008), (52 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Predictor Variables; Academic Persistence; Educational Attainment; Risk; Geographic Location; Individual Characteristics; School Location; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Student Characteristics; Community Colleges; College Transfer Students; Rural Areas; Kansas; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prädiktor; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Risiko; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Schulgelände; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Community college; Community College; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel
Abstract	This exploratory study examined the impact of location (rural vs. non-rural) and individual characteristics such as age, gender, and risk factors on baccalaureate attainment of vertical transfer students. Descriptive findings indicate that overall few students (12%) who began in a two-year institution transferred to a four-year institution. Thirty-nine percent of students who transferred attended a rural high school while 61% of students who transferred did not. Further, rural students did not attain the baccalaureate degree at rates similar to their non-rural counterparts (36% and 64%, respectively). The logistic regression analyses showed that women and traditional-age students were more successful at baccalaureate attainment than men and nontraditional-aged students. In addition, men who were traditional-aged, had more risk factors, or attended a non-rural high school were more successful at baccalaureate attainment than were men who were nontraditional-aged, had fewer risk factors, or attended a rural high school. (Contains 7 tables and 2 footnotes.) [Additional support was provided by the College of Education Graduate Study and Educational Research Fund at Ohio University. A previous version of this paper was presented at the Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum in Kansas City, MO, June 2007.] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10