Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, 1988 (NELS: 88), this paper documents differences in the socioeconomic plans of students in two-year and four-year colleges. We found attendance at a two-year college led to a modest but statistically significant disadvantage in socioeconomic plans. However, the impact of attending a…

This study applies an integrated model of college choice to better describe students who do and do not intend to study abroad. Although internationalization through study abroad is widely touted as a preferred means of developing globally competent college graduates, very little is known about the factors that influence students' predisposition to…

Despite substantial efforts across postsecondary education to increase minority participation in study abroad, the homogeneity of study abroad participants remains largely unchanged (Desoff, 2006; Shih, 2009). This study applies an integrated student choice model (Perna, 2006) to identify differences between white and minority (African-American,…

John C. Weidman (1989) was one of the first to argue that a socialization model is necessary to fully understand college impact. Weidman also contends that socioeconomic status (SES) is an important part of the socialization process for students. In fact, he placed such emphasis on SES that he included it in two locations within his model: (1)…

The individual and contextual effects of schools on the educational aspirations of a national sample of older adolescents is explored. When the factors of student ethnicity, family background, and academic achievement were held constant, a measure of classroom morale was positively associated with educational aspiration. (Authors/JN)

This study investigates the family and school influences on reading and mathematics achievement for students in a voluntarily desegregated school district. General findings suggest that the best main-effects predictors of both reading and mathematics achievement are prior levels of achievement in each area. However, further analysis of the data…