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Download full textHorn, Laura J.; Chen, Xianglei – 1998
This study examined whether or not student, parent, and peer engagement factors that contribute to at-risk students' success in graduating from high school continue to be important in making the transition from high school to postsecondary education. The data set used was the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, which included 1994 data…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Horn, Laura J.; Chen, Xianglei; Chapman, Chris – 2003
This study used data from the Parent and Youth Surveys of the 1999 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES:1999) to investigate how much "college-bound" students in grades 6 through 12 and their parents know about the cost of attending college and the relationships between their knowledge of college costs and how they go about…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Knowledge Level, National Surveys, Parents
Peer reviewedChoy, Susan P.; Horn, Laura J.; Nunez, Anne-Marie; Chen, Xianglei – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2000
Investigates factors that facilitate four-year college enrollment for subpopulations of high school students. Students that find themselves at risk and those with parents who have no college experience receive primary consideration. (Author/EV)
Descriptors: College Attendance, Enrollment, First Generation College Students, High Risk Students
