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Burkhauser, Susan; Hanser, Lawrence M.; Hardison, Chaitra M. – RAND Corporation, 2014
The U.S. military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Credentials, Secondary Education, Home Schooling
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Kurlaender, Michal; Grodsky, Eric – Sociology of Education, 2013
Although some scholars report that all students are better served by attending more prestigious postsecondary institutions, others have argued that students are better off attending colleges where they are about average in terms of academic ability and suffer worse outcomes if they attend schools that are "out of their league" at which…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, College Choice, Academic Ability
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Cebi, Merve – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
This paper examines the effect of teenagers' outlooks--specified as their locus of control--on educational attainment and labor market outcomes. I replicate the study of Coleman and DeLeire (2003) and test the predictions of their theoretical model using a different data set--National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The findings fail to…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Human Capital, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education