Soft Factors Influence College Enrollment

Autor/inn/en	Fogg, Neeta P.; Harrington, Paul E.
Titel	Soft Factors Influence College Enrollment
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, (2010) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; High Schools; Social Attitudes; Labor Market; High School Graduates; Social Organizations; Educational Environment; Enrollment; Higher Education; High School Students; Public Schools; Academic Achievement; Rhode Island + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Absolvent; Absolventin; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Einschulung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulleistung
Abstract	Evidence about the role that "soft factors" like student engagement and school environment play in influencing whether high school students go on to enroll in college is hard to come by. Over the past two years, the Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS) of Northeastern University, with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Rhode Island Board of Governors of Higher Education, has explored the impact of these and other factors on the college-going rates of recent high school graduates from Rhode Island public high schools. This study is based on a unique database that CLMS painstakingly constructed linking institutional level data about high school students, teachers, parents and school-level characteristics with information on college-enrollment behavior of high school graduates from each public school in the state. The unit of observation in this study is the high school. The measure of student high school experiences in this study is defined as encompassing not only the academic and social attitudes, practices and outcomes of students, but also the academic and social organization and climate of their high schools, and the involvement and experiences of their teachers and parents. The sets of measures developed for this study provide new insights into the role that these soft factors play in explaining differences in college enrollment rates across high schools in the state. This article presents the summary of key findings. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10