STUDYING COLLEGE ACCESS AND CHOICE: A PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL MODEL

By Laura W. Perna. 2006

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College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students: Variation by School and State Context (2009, methodology): “The integrated models of Perna (2006a) and St. John (2003) employed here assume that knowledge of financial aid impacts student perceptions of the feasibility of college and consequently the preparation that students undertake.”
Understanding the Relationship Between Information About College Prices and Financial Aid and Students’ College-Related Behaviors (2006, background): “Perna (2006) proposed a multilevel conceptual model that may be useful for understanding the acquisition and use of information about college prices and financial aid.”
Complicating Conditions: Obstacles and Interruptions to Low-Income Students' College “Choices” (2015, methodology): “Within this model, researchers have outlined an intersecting set of conditions that affect students’ paths through high school and towards college (for a comprehensive review, see Perna, 2006).”
Talking ‘Bout My Generation: Defining “First-Generation College Students” in Higher Education Research (2018, background): “Other theoretical insights into the postsecondary decisions of students can be gained through the work of Don Hossler and colleagues (Hossler, Braxton, & Coopersmith, 1989; Hossler & Gallagher, 1987; Hossler, Schmit, & Vesper, 1999) and others (Paulsen, 1990; Perna, 2006) who have argued that the co”
A Review of the Theories Developed to Describe the Process of College Persistence and Attainment (2011, background): “A number of scholars in higher education have incorporated the concepts of social and cultural capital into conceptual frameworks defined to explore issues related to access to higher education ( Perna, 2006; Perna & Thomas, 2008).”
Does Student Loan Debt Deter Higher Education Participation? New Evidence from England (2017, methodology): “In summary, we propose, like Perna (2006), that students’ subjective understanding and perceptions of these costs and benefits, their views about their academic and financial resources, and their higher education choices are shaped by their socio-economic backgrounds and other resources they derive…”
Finding Money on the Table: Information, Financial Aid, and Access to College (2009, background): “John (2004) and Perna (2007) delineated in their college access and choice models is akin to what we propose, but rather than a causal chart where one factor leads to another, we suggest a cultural framework to better understand how students and their families approach college going.”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “There are notable differences by race in terms of access to social capital (McDonough, 1997; Perna, 2006; Perna & Titus, 2005), so changes in access to social capital may also explain trends in enrollment selectivity gaps.”
Latino Access to Community Colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A National Study (2011, background): “…of college choice assume that a student rationally chooses to enroll in a particular college based on assessing how the perceived monetary benefits of attending a certain college outweigh those of either not attending college at all or of attending a different college (Dowd, 2008; Perna, 2006).”
Creating the Out-of-State University: Do Public Universities Increase Nonresident Freshman Enrollment in Response to Declining State Appropriations? (2015, methodology): “Drawing from the literatures on college-choice (e.g., Hossler et al. 1989, 1999; Hossler and Gallagher 1987; Perna 2006) and enrollment management (e.”
Going Global: Understanding the Choice Process of the Intent to Study Abroad (2009, methodology): “We applied the student choice construct and the integrated model of student choice as our guides to select those independent variables (see Table 1) that most effectively capture the ''situated contexts'' within which students make decisions about postsecondary educational experiences (Perna 2006).”
The Counseling Opportunity Structure: Examining Correlates of Four-Year College-Going Rates (2013, background): “…are aligned with many of the important functional areas highlighted in previous research on college counseling (Hill 2008), and reinforce the importance of informational resources and access to social networks in facilitating the college choice process (Engberg and Wolniak 2010; Perna 2006).”