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Chia S. Her – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Asian Americans are generally perceived to be disproportionately enrolled in four-year postsecondary education institutions despite evidence of Asian Americans being concentrated at both two-year and four-year postsecondary education institutions. This perception of Asian Americans has contributed to limited attention to Asian Americans'…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Asian Americans, Predictor Variables, College Attendance
April E. Bell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
According to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN, 2023), each year, thousands of high school graduates leave billions of dollars in federal student aid unclaimed because they do not complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). To holistically investigate this phenomenon, this dissertation accomplished three goals. The…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Predictor Variables, Longitudinal Studies
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Oyefuga, Emiola; Shakeshaft, Charol – Youth & Society, 2023
This article aims to show the influence of social capital on the academic achievement of American students. Using data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study explored how one of the domains of social capital, the family, makes a difference to educational outcomes in higher…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Outcomes of Education, Family Income, Academic Achievement
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Sakiz, Halis; Özdas, Faysal; Göksu, Idris; Ekinci, Abdurrahman – SAGE Open, 2021
Achievement in higher education is gaining importance and attracting attention among educational psychologists who seek for determining its correlates. This study examined longitudinal associations between academic achievement in higher education, university entrance exam performance, the psychosocial climate of the campus, and instructional…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Higher Education
Eric Grodsky; Catherine Doren; Koit Hung; Chandra Muller; John Robert Warren – Grantee Submission, 2021
We ask whether patterns of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of "staged advantage" to understand how educational inequalities evolve over the life course. Distinct from cumulative advantage, staged…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Stratification, Advantaged
Eric Grodsky; Catherine Doren; Koit Hung; Chandra Muller; John Robert Warren – Sociology of Education, 2021
We ask whether patterns of racial ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of staged advantage to understand how educational inequalities evolve over the life course. Distinct from cumulative advantage, staged advantage…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Stratification, Advantaged
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Bowers, Alex J.; Zhou, Xiaoliang – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2019
Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Early Warning Indictors (EWI) have recently emerged as an attractive domain for states and school districts interested in predicting student outcomes using data that schools already collect with the intention to better time and tailor interventions. However, current diagnostic measures used across the domain do not…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Educational Diagnosis
Wright, Mellissa Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2019
A number of qualitative studies examining student achievement outcomes in higher education show that access to social capital is an important predictor of student success. Critical Race Theory (CRT), and other qualitative studies, examining student outcomes have operationalized social capital in terms of access to information. Most of these…
Descriptors: Mentors, Social Capital, Capacity Building, Academic Achievement
Holzman, Brian; Duffy, Horace – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
Part II of the Houston Longitudinal Study on the Transition to College and Work (HLS) examined potential indicators of college enrollment school and district staff might use to identify and support students at risk of not attending college. The study used administrative data from the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and tracked two…
Descriptors: Enrollment, At Risk Students, Urban Schools, Predictor Variables
Holzman, Brian; Duffy, Horace – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This report examined three potential indicators of college enrollment school and district staff might use to identify and support students at risk of not attending college: (1) Chicago: Designed to predict high school graduation; based on earning six course credits--the minimum to advance to the next grade in HISD--and having at most one semester…
Descriptors: Enrollment, At Risk Students, Urban Schools, Predictor Variables
Holzman, Brian; Duffy, Horace – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
These are the appendices for "Transitioning to College and Work. Part 2: A Study of Potential Enrollment Indicators," which examined potential indicators of college enrollment school and district staff might use to identify and support students at risk of not attending college. The study used administrative data from the Houston…
Descriptors: Enrollment, At Risk Students, Urban Schools, Predictor Variables
Marini, Jessica; Shaw, Emily; Young, Linda; Ewing, Maureen – College Board, 2018
This study investigated differences in college grading practices (first-year grade point average and course grades) by student and institutional characteristics and by academic discipline to inform and improve our understanding and use as among the most commonly employed criteria in validity and college readiness research. In addition, trends in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grading, College Students, Student Characteristics
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Alcott, Benjamin – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
Prior research has highlighted the importance of educational achievement throughout school in predicting subsequent progression to higher education in England. However, progress assessments may not only demonstrate students' prior academic achievement but also influence their future achievement. I compare students who have received different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
Pfeffer, Fabian – National Poverty Center, 2016
Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution provides the first assessment of trends in educational attainment by family wealth and suggests that we should be at least as much concerned about growing wealth…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Poverty, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Attainment
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Martín, P.; Potocnik, K.; Fras, A. B. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Innovation in the workplace has been claimed to be a key factor in organizational survival and success. As future workers, university students are a major source of future innovations in organizational settings. Before they enter the labour market, it is in the context of Higher Education that they start developing some of their long-term…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Need, Innovation, Longitudinal Studies
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