Barriers to Degree Completion for College Students with Foster Care Histories: Results from a 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Okpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E.
Titel	Barriers to Degree Completion for College Students with Foster Care Histories: Results from a 10-Year Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 23 (2021) 1, S.28-54 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Okpych, Nathanael J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0251
DOI	10.1177/1521025118791776
Schlagwörter	Barriers; Academic Persistence; Academic Degrees; College Students; At Risk Students; Low Income Students; First Generation College Students; Student Characteristics; Institutional Characteristics; Foster Care; Adolescents; Young Adults; Longitudinal Studies; Predictor Variables; Financial Problems; Parent Responsibility; Student Employment; Social Support Groups; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Achievement Tests; Postsecondary Education; Iowa; Illinois; Wisconsin; Wide Range Achievement Test; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Collegestudent; Pflegehilfe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prädiktor; Studentenarbeit; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung
Abstract	Youth who were in foster care as adolescents make up a small but highly vulnerable subpopulation of the college student body. This article analyzes secondary data collected from one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of foster youth. The analytic sample includes 329 foster youth from three Midwestern states who attended college in the mid- to late-2000s. Degree completion was examined up to age 29 or 30 years from National Student Clearinghouse records and cross checked with self-report survey data. A wide range of precollege entry, postcollege entry, and college-level factors were examined as predictors of degree completion. Foster youth were less than half as likely as low-income first-generation students from a nationally representative study to earn a degree by 6 years (12% vs. 28%). Logistic regression results found that life circumstances after youth entered college (financial hardships, needing to work, and parental responsibilities) and college-level factors were the main predictors of degree completion. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01