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Direct linkKamer, Jacob A.; Ishitani, Terry T. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
This study examined the longitudinal persistence behavior of first-time, nontraditionally aged students at four-year institutions by leveraging the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Student data set. A human capital theory framework was employed to assess how student background characteristics, enrollment characteristics, and financial factors…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nontraditional Students, School Holding Power, College Students
Hernandez, Eliza Aguirre – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze a nationally representative dataset of first-year beginning students to examine the factors that affect Mexican-origin Latinos undergraduate students' persistence and degree attainment outcomes. Several theoretical perspectives are used in this research in order to address the complex…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Institutional Characteristics, Social Capital, Human Capital
Walpole, MaryBeth, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2007
This volume examines conceptual frameworks and models that flow from scholars' definitions and operationalizations of social class: status attainment theory, human capital theory, the financial nexus model, Bourdieuian theory, and critical race theory. Since students often have multiple social locations that affect their educational process, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Definitions
