College Enhancement Strategies and Socioeconomic Inequality

Autor/inn/en	Wolniak, Gregory C.; Wells, Ryan S.; Engberg, Mark E.; Manly, Catherine A.
Titel	College Enhancement Strategies and Socioeconomic Inequality
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 57 (2016) 3, S.310-334 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-015-9389-4
Schlagwörter	Socioeconomic Status; Enrollment; College Applicants; Student Behavior; Competition; Educational Demand; Social Stratification; National Surveys; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Einschulung; College applications; Studienbewerber; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Wettkampf; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	The study provides new information on the relationships between students' socioeconomic backgrounds, utilization of college enhancement strategies, and subsequent 4-year college enrollment. Enhancement strategies represent student behaviors used to bolster the competitiveness of a college application, such as Advanced Placement exams and a variety of extracurricular activities. By drawing on two national datasets that span the 1990s (NELS) and the 2000s (ELS), the study uncovers how these relationships have changed during a period marked by escalating demand for college and growing class inequality. The findings provide partial evidence of class adaptation (Alon in "Am Soc Rev" 74:731-755, 2009) based on the combination of increased use of multiple enhancement strategies ("high overall use") among higher SES students and increased influence of high overall enhancement strategy use in predicting college enrollment, particularly selective college enrollment. Implications are discussed in terms of the higher education system and pervasive social inequality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01