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Article: Assessing the College Impact on Students' Lifetime Educational Aspirations.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
- Author:
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Abstract
One way to explore the college impact on students' lifetime educational aspirations is to compare what students say those aspirations were at entry (Time 1) with what students say they are later in their college career (Time 2). The authors used data (N= 36,871) from the most recent national 4-year college user group norms for the ACT College Outcomes Survey (COS) to suggest ways to observe the impact of the institution on students' highest lifetime educational aspirations. Percentages of students aspiring to each of eight (for 2-year colleges) or four (for 4-year colleges) educational levels were summarized for each of the two points in time. ...
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