Understanding and affecting students' path to success in community colleges
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the four papers of this dissertation, I examine the question of how structural policies and practices affect student outcomes in community colleges. Together, these papers aim to deepen our understanding of how students make decisions in community colleges with an eye toward how such an understanding could influence policy and practice. In papers 1 and 2, I examine the effects of two structural interventions (a more streamlined transfer process from two- to four-year schools and requiring students to declare a major intent when applying) on student course taking behavior. In papers 3 and 4 I use a multi-stage model of choice (observing awareness, consideration and choice) to examine how different groups of students make programmatic and major-choice decisions to gain a more nuanced understanding of how of how this important decision process unfolds.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Baker, Rachel Barth |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Reardon, Sean F |
| Thesis advisor | Reardon, Sean F |
| Thesis advisor | Bettinger, Eric |
| Thesis advisor | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
| Thesis advisor | Kurlaender, Michal |
| Advisor | Bettinger, Eric |
| Advisor | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
| Advisor | Kurlaender, Michal |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rachel Barth Baker. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Rachel Barth Baker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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