Leaving or Staying Home: Predicting Where Students Attend College

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Jin; Zerquera, Desiree
Titel	Leaving or Staying Home: Predicting Where Students Attend College
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 50 (2018) 4, S.376-399 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124517713245
Schlagwörter	High School Students; College Choice; Regression (Statistics); Enrollment; Proximity; Decision Making; Individual Characteristics; Social Influences; Context Effect; Costs; Grade 9; State Surveys; Academic Aspiration; Student Records; Statistical Analysis; Correlation; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Grade Point Average; College Entrance Examinations; SAT (College Admission Test); ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Studienortwahl; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Einschulung; Lebensnähe; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sozialer Einfluss; Cost; Kosten; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Schülerakte; Statistische Analyse; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Aufnahmeprüfung; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	Focusing on a cohort of high school students from a Midwest metropolitan region, this study combines multiple sources of data and uses a multinomial logistic regression to model student postsecondary choices with respect to whether and where to attend college. Specifically, we examined the enrollment patterns by proximity to the home region and factors associated with these college decisions. The results suggest that these students' college choices were a process influenced by both precollege individual characteristics and social contexts. The findings also supported our hypothesis that acquisition of various types of capital and academic success of the school district (as one of several indicators of a college-going culture) were negatively related to student preferences for college proximity. These findings highlight the interplay between individual, family, community, and school at different levels as it influences college decisions of students from the deindustrialized Midwest region and regions alike. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01