College Expectations for All? The Early Adult Outcomes of Low-Achieving Adolescents Who Expect to Earn a Bachelor's Degree

Autor/inn/en	Martin, Anne; Gardner, Margo
Titel	College Expectations for All? The Early Adult Outcomes of Low-Achieving Adolescents Who Expect to Earn a Bachelor's Degree
Quelle	In: Applied Developmental Science, 20 (2016) 2, S.108-120 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8691
DOI	10.1080/10888691.2015.1080596
Schlagwörter	Expectation; Bachelors Degrees; Adolescents; Low Achievement; Higher Education; Young Adults; Outcomes of Education; Academic Aspiration; Educational Attainment; Academic Achievement; Enrollment; College Students; Longitudinal Studies; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expectancy; Erwartung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Schulleistung; Einschulung; Collegestudent; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Critics of the college-for-all ethos argue that it encourages low-achieving adolescents to develop unrealistically high expectations. This argument posits that low-achievers waste time and money, and risk disappointment and self-recrimination, pursuing college when they are unlikely to complete it. The present study uses two national data sets--Add Health and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979--to test the proposition that expecting to earn a bachelor's degree (BA) puts low-achieving students at risk of disadvantageous early adult outcomes. Youth reported their educational expectations in high school, and their income-to-needs ratios and depressive symptoms were measured approximately a decade later. Results in both data sets suggest that the expectation of a BA was advantageous for all students, regardless of achievement level. Low-achievers who expected to earn a BA had higher educational attainment, higher income-to-needs ratios, and fewer depressive symptoms than low-achievers who did not expect to earn a BA. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01