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Barnes-Teamer, Toya Ann Marie.

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Confirming college choice: How career aspirations and social capital influence decision-making of technical college students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Confirming college choice: How career aspirations and social capital influence decision-making of technical college students./
Author:	Barnes-Teamer, Toya Ann Marie.
Description:	168 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2798.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-08A.
Subject:	Education, Higher. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3102776

Confirming college choice: How career aspirations and social capital influence decision-making of technical college students.
Barnes-Teamer, Toya Ann Marie.

Confirming college choice: How career aspirations and social capital influence decision-making of technical college students. - 168 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2798.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Orleans, 2003.

This study explored the choice process of ‘traditional’ students enrolled at the Louisiana Technical College (LTC). The central phenomena under study were the factors, which influenced recent high school graduates' choice to attend the LTC. The researcher was interested in discovering “how and why” high school graduates chose to enroll at the technical college so that she could gain insight relative to “what” the college choice process was for this specific population.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Confirming college choice: How career aspirations and social capital influence decision-making of technical college students.
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520 $a This study explored the choice process of ‘traditional’ students enrolled at the Louisiana Technical College (LTC). The central phenomena under study were the factors, which influenced recent high school graduates' choice to attend the LTC. The researcher was interested in discovering “how and why” high school graduates chose to enroll at the technical college so that she could gain insight relative to “what” the college choice process was for this specific population.
520 $a The data confirmed that the stages of choice were similar for the LTC students who participated in this study as compared to those in previous studies. All students moved through the predisposition, search, and choice stages. The significant factors for ‘traditional’ LTC students who participated in this study were integrated into all three stages of college choice. These factors pertained to the student characteristics and influences. The student characteristic that emerged throughout the stages was career aspirations. A second characteristic was social capital. Social capital reflected influences as defined in this study. The main factors within social capital that emerged were parents, siblings and high school personnel. High school personnel were defined as teachers and guidance counselors.
520 $a However, as career aspirations and social capital were factors integrated throughout the college choice model, student's ‘personal values’ and ‘benefits sought’ influenced the predisposition stage. The participants also focused on confirming their career choice through the resources they used. The factors that influenced the search stage were the guidance counselor's library during ‘information gathering’ and campus visits during ‘information processing’. Although decision-making was originally a part of the search stage in the original framework, it seemed to tit more appropriately in the choice stage. At this stage, the factors that had the greatest influence on a student's decision to attend the LTC were program, price, and location.
520 $a In light of these findings, it is incumbent upon all stakeholders to intervene at the point that students need to make career decisions. The results of this exploration could serve as a framework for strategic planning at the secondary and post-secondary levels as well as with policy makers in helping high school students and their parents make more appropriate career and college choice decisions.
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