Campus Visits as Predictors of Postsecondary Enrollment in Low-Income, Rural School Districts

Autor/inn/en	Smith, M. Corinne; Gosky, Ross M.; Li, Jui-Teng
Titel	Campus Visits as Predictors of Postsecondary Enrollment in Low-Income, Rural School Districts
Quelle	In: Journal of College Access, 7 (2022) 1, S.130-144, Artikel 10 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Correlation; School Visitation; Middle School Students; High School Students; Low Income Groups; Rural Areas; Campuses; College Attendance; Enrollment Rate; Field Trips; College Readiness; Undergraduate Students; Grants; School Districts; Program Effectiveness; Predictor Variables; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Exkursion; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; School district; Schulbezirk; Prädiktor
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between visits to college campuses by middle school and high school students and postsecondary enrollment rates, where campus visits are classified as both formal college visits and also informal campus visits. Specifically, Traditional Campus Visits and Educational Campus Field Trips are categorized as two distinct service types sponsored by the GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) grant program in 11 rural, western North Carolina school districts. The participants were 2,274 students who started the GEAR UP program in 7th grade and remained enrolled at a participating GEAR UP school through high school graduation. Using logistic regression analyses to estimate the effects of two different campus visit types, and the year in which the visits occurred, the results indicated that both informal (Educational Campus Field Trip) and formal (Traditional College Visit) campus visits had an association with postsecondary enrollment rates, with formal campus visits collectively having a stronger impact than informal campus visits. We also found that visits taken earlier in a student's academic career had an important association with postsecondary enrollment rates. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01