Influences on community college students' educational plans

Ernest T. Pascarella; Gregory C. Wolniak; Christopher T. Pierson

doi:10.1023/A:1023025715036

Influences on community college students' educational plans

Ernest T. Pascarella, Gregory C. Wolniak, Christopher T. Pierson

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Abstract

This study analyzed data from 285 students attending 5 community colleges to identify the institutional and college experience variables influencing end-of-first-year educational degree plans. Controlling for an extensive array of important confounding influences, the estimated average precollege degree plans of students at the community college one attended had significant, positive total and direct effects on an individual student's end-of-first-year overall educational degree plans and plans to obtain at least a bachelor's degree. In the prediction of end-of-first-year overall educational degree plans, there were significant conditional effects involving sex, race, and precollege degree plans.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	301-314
Number of pages	14
Journal	Research in Higher Education
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023025715036
State	Published - Jun 2003

Keywords

College effects
Community colleges
Degree plans

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Education

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