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Academic Achievement in the First Year of College: Evidence of the Pervasive Effects of the High School Context
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Wolniak, Gregory C.; Engberg, Mark E. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
This study aims to improve our understanding of the postsecondary impacts of high schools by investigating whether or not exposure to different high school contexts may explain academic performance once in college. Drawing on a sample of 3,750 participants from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, descriptive and multivariate analyses…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Academic Achievement