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Iryna Johnson 《Research in higher education》2008,49(8):776-793
Educational research has shown that individual-level background characteristics, such as parental socio-economic status and
academic ability, influence college going behavior. This study tests for the existence of aggregate-level high school effects
on college enrollment, persistence and degree attainment. It links institutional data on students enrolling within a year
after graduation from in-state high schools with state data on high schools’ performance and populations. Three high school
aggregate-level factors were found to affect enrollment and persistence. Specifically, the high schools’ percent of SAT takers
has a concave-shape effect on enrollment, retention and graduation. Additionally, students coming from schools with a higher
percent of those receiving free lunch are less likely to persist, and students coming from schools located within a 60 mile
radius are more likely to matriculate and to persist to the second year. These results suggest that aggregate-level high school
characteristics should be accounted for in enrollment management.
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Iryna JohnsonEmail: |
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Milan Vodopivec 《Higher Education》2009,57(4):429-448
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia
and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme that seeks to recover part of schooling costs. The simulations
show that under the base variant (where the target cost recovery rate is 20% and the contribution rate is 2%), 55% of individuals
would have repaid their entire debt within 20 years; 19% of individuals still would not have repaid any of their debt after
20 years; and the “leakage” of the scheme due to uncollected debt would have been 13.5% of total lending. By piggybacking
on existing administrative systems, implementation costs would be minimal, amounting to less than 0.5% of collected debt.
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Milan VodopivecEmail: |
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This study examines how state merit-based scholarships individually and simultaneously with prepaid tuition plans influence the interstate migration of college-bound freshmen. State freshman migration percentages
were examined over a 10-year period. Results of an interrupted time-series model suggested that students generally respond
to merit-based tuition aid in accordance with our initial prediction based on factors influencing student choice in attending
postsecondary institutions. More specifically, many students choose to attend an in-state college in order to be eligible
for state merit-based scholarships. Moreover, for home states that adopted both merit-based scholarships and prepaid tuition
contracts, student out-migration was further reduced over time.
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Ronald H. HeckEmail: |
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Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):277-294
This essay on the ethical mission of the university explores extremes of anti-social behavior, visiting numerous crime scenes
before concluding that contemporary higher education has lost the capacity—and even the language—for taking character development
seriously. In his attempt to determine whether coincidently traditional-liberationist-diversiphilic-apathetic colleges can
morally improve their charges, Peter Wood collects a wrenching compendium of violent academic mayhem.
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Peter WoodEmail: |
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The Way to Wealth and the Way to Leisure: The Impact of College Education on Graduates’ Earnings and Hours of Work 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Liang Zhang 《Research in higher education》2008,49(3):199-213
This study extends the analysis of the economic return of college education up to 10 years after college education and further
examines the impact of college education on graduates’ hours of work. The results suggest that variation in hours of work
explains a portion of earnings differentials among college graduates. Graduates from high-quality private institutions tend
to work longer hours than their peers from other types of institutions. Female graduates spend fewer hours working than their
male counterparts. As far as family background is concerned, graduates from high-income families tend to work longer hours
and first-generation college graduates tend to work fewer hours. Finally, business majors seem to work longer hours while
health and public affair majors less hours.
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Liang ZhangEmail: |
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Hanna Ayalon 《Higher Education》2007,54(6):885-905
The paper examines whether college application behavior assists members of privileged social groups to preserve their advantages
in diversified higher education systems. The study is based on a survey conducted in Israel in 1999 on a sample of 4,061 freshmen
in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education.
The findings show that strategic application behavior helps less able children of academic parents to achieve the summit of
higher education: studying lucrative fields of study at the research universities. Mizrachim, the disadvantaged Jewish ethnic
group, are strategic when applying for lucrative fields of study, but it does not affect their actual enrollment. Strategic
application behavior helps Arabs, the most disadvantaged group in Israel, increase their odds of achieving the “worst” option,
studying non-lucrative fields in colleges. Talented women successfully practice strategic behavior when applying for lucrative
fields of study. The effects of strategic application behavior are, thus, mixed. It helps in preserving socio-economic and
ethnic inequalities, but also helps in reducing gender inequality among talented students.
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Hanna AyalonEmail: |
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Legacies, or students with a family member who graduated from the same college or university, have been the source of much
debate. We add to the existing literature by providing a detailed empirical portrait of legacies at a private, selective university
across the college years. We examine how legacies are distinctive in their admissions profiles, within-college achievement
and post-graduation plans, using data from a panel study of students attending Duke University. We find that legacies enter
college with an abundance of economic, cultural and social capital, but also have lower levels of human capital compared to
other students with college graduate parents. Due to this human capital deficit, legacies have lower grades in the first college
year, but show little academic underperformance in subsequent semesters. Additionally, legacies are less likely to plan to
be a medical doctor or engineer and have somewhat lower degree aspirations than other students.
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Nathan D. MartinEmail: |
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Craig Ross R. Robert Orr 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2009,57(2):251-265
Troubleshooting skills are integral for the Information Technology professional. In order to address faculty concerns that
students were not effectively learning required troubleshooting skills, a standardized troubleshooting methodology (the DECSAR
Method) was created and integrated into the standard curriculum of a college information technology program. Components of
troubleshooting were measured using a pre-/post-testing approach with the Social Problem Solving Inventory—Revised. Testing
indicated improvement in several areas of troubleshooting reinforced by DECSAR. The context in which the troubleshooting methodology
was applied was associated with post-test change.
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R. Robert OrrEmail: |
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This study examined whether the effects of student–faculty interaction on a range of student outcomes—i.e., college GPA, degree
aspiration, integration, critical thinking and communication, cultural appreciation and social awareness, and satisfaction
with college experience—vary by student gender, race, social class, and first-generation status. The study utilized data on
58,281 students who participated in the 2006 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). The findings
reveal differences in the frequency of student–faculty interaction across student gender, race, social class and first-generation
status, and differences in the effects of student–faculty interaction (i.e., conditional effects) that depended on each of these factors except first-generation
status. The findings provide implications for educational practice on how to maximize the educational efficacy of student–faculty
interaction by minimizing the gender, race, social class, and first-generation differences associated with it.
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Linda J. SaxEmail: |
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Emerging from the Pipeline: African American Students,Socioeconomic Status,and College Experiences and Outcomes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
MaryBeth Walpole 《Research in higher education》2008,49(3):237-255
This study focuses on how social class affects the college experiences and outcomes for African American students in 4-year
colleges and universities. Using a national, longitudinal data base, the findings indicate that low SES African American students
have less contact with faculty, study less, are less involved with student organizations, work more, and have lower grades
than do their high SES peers or all African American students. Furthermore, 9 years after entering college, low SES students
report lower incomes, lower rates of degree attainment and lower aspirations than their high SES peers, and were less likely
to have attended graduate school. Logistic regression results indicate that sex, college GPA, and plans following college
significantly affect the likelihood that a student will attend graduate school.
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MaryBeth WalpoleEmail: |
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Steve Kogan 《Academic Questions》2007,20(3):219-234
In our summer 2006 issue, we ran a comprehensive overview of how postmodernism has degraded composition on our campuses. Steve
Kogan enlarges that indictment and charges that the movement has deliberately corrupted every area of English instruction—from
the acquisition of skills and knowledge to the more fundamental mission of developing in students the habits of disciplined
learning.
Steve Kogan is a retired professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He continues to write and publish on literary and academic subjects. 相似文献
Steve KoganEmail: |
Steve Kogan is a retired professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He continues to write and publish on literary and academic subjects. 相似文献
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The Interrelation of First-Year College Students’ Critical Thinking Disposition, Perceived Academic Control, and Academic Achievement 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Robert H. Stupnisky Robert D. Renaud Lia M. Daniels Tara L. Haynes Raymond P. Perry 《Research in higher education》2008,49(6):513-530
While a great deal of research has examined students’ critical thinking skills, less is known about students’ tendencies to
use these skills. Specifically, little is known about what factors contribute to students developing a disposition to think
critically or what impact this disposition has on college students’ academic achievement. Perceived control, which has been
found to be an important factor in college students’ academic success, may be an important factor in developing this disposition.
The current longitudinal study examined the reciprocal-effects between critical thinking disposition and perceived academic
control, and their comparative influences on academic achievement in 1196 first-year college students. Using a two-wave, two-variable
cross-lag structural equation model, a reciprocal-effect was found whereby students’ perceived academic control predicted
their subsequent critical thinking disposition, and students’ critical thinking disposition predicted their subsequent perceived
academic control. Furthermore, after controlling for high school academic performance, perceived academic control was found
to have a stronger impact on students’ GPAs than critical thinking disposition. Implications of fostering a critical thinking
disposition and perceived academic control among college students are discussed.
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Robert H. StupniskyEmail: |
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Mathematical concepts and conceptions have been theorized as abstractions from—and therefore transcending—bodily and embodied
experience. In this contribution, we re-theorize mathematical conceptions by building on recent philosophical work in dialectical
phenomenology. Accordingly, a conception exists only in, through, and as of the experiences that the individual realizes it.
To exemplify our reconceptualization of mathematical conceptions, we draw on an episode from a study in a second-grade classroom
where the students learned about three-dimensional geometrical objects.
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Wolff-Michael RothEmail: |
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The doctoral advisor is said to be one of the most important persons—if not the single most critical person—with whom doctoral students will develop a relationship during their doctoral degree programs
(Baird 1995). However, we have limited knowledge regarding how doctoral advisors see their roles and responsibilities as advisors. Therefore,
through in-depth interviews, we explored the perceptions of 25 exemplary doctoral advisors, who have graduated a large number
of doctoral students, about their roles and responsibilities as advisors. We conclude this article with implications for doctoral
education.
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Ann E. AustinEmail: |
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Russell Nieli 《Academic Questions》2007,20(3):177-210
Small programs can make a big difference on college campuses. At Duke University, a few dedicated people, with the support
of college administrators, exploited the all-too-evident liabilities of curriculum fragmentation, political correctness, and
the lack of direction felt by undergraduate students to create intellectually valuable and stimulating new offerings. Russell
Nieli tells how the Gerst and Focus programs have influenced that university and others across America.
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Russell NieliEmail: |
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Tammy Stone 《Innovative Higher Education》2009,33(4):229-238
This article explores the concept of academic receivership in U.S. colleges and universities. Academic receivership occurs
when control of an academic department or program is removed from the faculty and an outside chair is put in place by the
college or university administration. A literature review is supplemented by a small survey to assess how common receivership
is and how it is administered. Combined, these elements allow for a discussion of the warning signs that a department is becoming
dysfunctional and a procedure to guide a department through the receivership process.
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Tammy StoneEmail: |
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Sylvia Hurtado M. Kevin Eagan Nolan L. Cabrera Monica H. Lin Julie Park Miguel Lopez 《Research in higher education》2008,49(2):126-152
Using longitudinal data from the UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) and Your First College Year (YFCY)
surveys, this study examines predictors of the likelihood that science-oriented students would participate in a health science
undergraduate research program during the first year of college. The key predictors of participation in health science research
programs are students’ reliance on peer networks and whether campuses provide structured opportunities for first-year students
even though only 12% of freshmen in the sample engaged in this activity. These experiences are particularly important for
Black students. The findings inform efforts to orient students at an early stage, particularly under-represented minorities,
toward biomedical and behavioral science research careers.
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Sylvia HurtadoEmail: |
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Terry T. Ishitani 《Research in higher education》2008,49(5):403-419
Prompted by the notion of “Transfer Shock”, numerous studies examined academic performance of transfer students at senior
institutions. However, few studies are found that examine how the varying nature of semester GPAs impact subsequent persistence
behavior of transfer students after the initial drop in their college GPAs. Using an institutional data set, this study longitudinally
investigated departure behavior of transfer students at a senior institution. Particular attention was given to how entry
at different times and semester GPAs affected transfer student departure. Results indicate that during their first semester,
sophomore and junior transfer students were 73% less likely to depart than freshman transfer students. After controlling for
explanatory variables, higher semester GPAs were positively associated with higher persistence rates throughout the observation
period.
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Terry T. IshitaniEmail: |
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Twenty-two faculty and graduate students were interviewed in one college of education in order to understand what the college
and its constituents view as the skills, habits of mind, and dispositions needed to obtain a Ph.D. in Education. Analysis
of the data was conducted using professional socialization as a theoretical framework, allowing for an understanding of the
different perspectives of this topic as viewed through a developmental lens. Implications for theory and practice are included.
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Xyanthe N. NeiderEmail: |
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Like many other public Mexican universities, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) has tried to contribute
to the national development of Mexico by offering new undergraduate majors presumed to be better attuned to the needs of the
labor market, while capping enrollments in traditional majors presumed to be redundant. Using data from one of the most extensive
alumni studies in Mexico, we found that BUAP alumni who graduated in traditional majors do not show high unemployment or low
satisfaction. On the contrary, the lowest levels of job satisfaction and the highest rates of unemployment are found among
the graduates of non-traditional majors.
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Shaquana AndersonEmail: |