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Trinidad, Jose Eos – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Aside from a student's personal desire to pursue higher education, a culture of high expectations in a school can have important consequences on the individual's achievement. However, the school's 'collective expectation' is affected by many contextual factors like urbanicity. Contributing to the research on urban-rural difference in education and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Social Influences, Rural Urban Differences, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Benton, Tom – Educational Research, 2014
Background: This article considers the impact of pupils studying for entry-level qualifications on their intentions of remaining in education. Such qualifications are intended to re-engage young people who are performing below expected levels and give them the opportunity to learn at a pace that suits them. Purpose: This article specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Qualifications, College Entrance Examinations
Means, Barbara; Wang, Haiwen; Wei, Xin; Lynch, Sharon; Peters, Vanessa; Young, Viki; Allen, Carrie – Science Education, 2017
Inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) (where STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) admit students on the basis of interest rather than competitive examination. This study examines the central assumption behind these schools--that they provide students from subgroups underrepresented in STEM with experiences that equip them…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High Schools, High School Students, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
English, David; Umbach, Paul D. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Using the 2000/01 Baccalaureate & Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:00/01), this paper employs multilevel modeling to test a conceptual model of graduate school choice that draws significantly from human capital theory while incorporating the salient concepts of cultural and social capital. The model posits that the graduate school choice…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Choice, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Human Capital
English, David Judson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
While significant scholarly attention focuses on the development and testing of theoretically grounded models of the college choice process at the undergraduate level, far less research explores the area of graduate school enrollments. Graduate school choice, which is defined for the purposes of this paper as the decision to pursue any…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Choice, Human Capital, Hierarchical Linear Modeling