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Autor/inn/en | McDonough, Patricia M.; und weitere |
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Titel | College Choice as Capital Conversion and Investment: A New Model. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper. |
Quelle | (1997), (34 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Academic Aspiration; Capital; Cognitive Style; College Attendance; College Bound Students; College Choice; Cultural Influences; Decision Making; Economic Factors; Educational Benefits; Educational Economics; Expectation; High Schools; Higher Education; Models; Predictive Measurement; Regression (Statistics); Selective Colleges Kapital; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Studienortwahl; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsökonomie; Expectancy; Erwartung; High school; Oberschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Analogiemodell; Regression; Regressionsanalyse |
Abstract | This paper presents a model of college choice that suggests that students' choice of college can be related to perceived "capital conversion" benefits. The model was tested on an evenly distributed sample (n=22,109) of students; one group attending elite colleges (with average freshman Scholastic Assessment Test scores of 1200 or higher) and the other attending less-selective colleges. Data for the 40 variables explored in the study were drawn from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) 1994 Freshman Survey. Descriptive analyses provided a profile of elite college students, and regression analyses identified the variables most strongly associated with attendance at highly selective institutions. The study findings support a pattern suggesting that students attending elite schools base future expectations on cultural capital, while those at non-elite schools base expectations on economic capital. Table 1 lists student descriptive statistics, and Table 2 provides standardized regression coefficients for the four selective college choice models. Appendices list elite (non-military) colleges in the CIRP database and provide an outline of the Cultural Capital College Choice Multivariate Model used in the study. (Contains approximately 50 references.) (CH) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |