ERIC Number: ED608320
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 25
Abstractor: ERIC
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Preparing Students for College: What High Schools Are Doing and How Their Actions Influence Ninth Graders' College Attitudes, Aspirations and Plans
Radford, Alexandria Walton; Ifill, Nicole
National Association for College Admission Counseling
This report analyzes new, nationally representative data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). Part I of this report examines what high schools are doing to help students transition to postsecondary education. Broadly, it examines college-level course offerings; counselors' time, attitudes and actions; and students' interactions with counselors. Each outcome was analyzed by the following high school characteristics: high school type (public or private), four-year college-going rate, size, locale, Hispanic students' representation, black students' representation, and the percentage of students at public high schools receiving free or reduced-price lunch (as a proxy for low-income students' representation). Part II of this report helps identify what schools can do to get students on a path that should lead to their successful transition to college. To that end, this section examines how counseling characteristics are related to ninth-graders' perceptions about college affordability, intention to enroll in a bachelor's degree program within a year of completing high school, and plans to take the SAT or ACT. In this section, descriptive statistics are presented first, followed by a discussion of regression results that control for high school, student and parent characteristics. The role of counseling characteristics on first-generation college students' attitudes and plans receives special attention.
Descriptors: College Readiness, Courses, Counselor Role, Counselor Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, School Counselors, Institutional Characteristics, Public Schools, Private Schools, College Attendance, School Size, Hispanic American Students, Geographic Location, African American Students, Low Income Students, School Role, Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Paying for College, Costs, Intention, Bachelors Degrees, Parents, Individual Characteristics, Advanced Placement, Counseling Techniques, Time
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Association for College Admission Counseling; MPR Associates, Inc.
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (NCES)
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