Understanding the Role of Parents and Siblings as Information Sources in the College Choice Process of Chicana Students

By Miguel Ceja. 2006

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The Role of Faculty, Counselors, and Support Programs on Latino/a Community College Students’ Success and Intent to Persist (2015, background): “…of background characteristics, transition-to-college experiences, and academic and social factors in the prediction of GPA and intention to persist to degree completion (Bordes-Edgar et al., 2011; Cabrera & La Nasa, 2001; Ceja, 2006; Dowd et al., 2013; Núñez et al., 2013; Perez & Ceja, 2010).”
When Race and Gender Collide: Social and Cultural Capital’s Influence on the Academic Achievement of African American and Latino Males (2010, unknown): “…on educational outcomes have focused on achievement in high school (e.g., Singh, Granville, & Dika, 2002) or have employed qualitative methods of data collection and analysis (e.g., Ceja, 2006), which, while appropriate given the study’s design and focus, yield findings that are not generalizable.”
The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students (2018, background): “While socioeconomically advantaged parents are often actively engaged in the college decision-making process, less advantaged parents tend to leave most of the decision-making to the students (Ceja 2006; Lareau and Cox 2011).”
Understanding the Effects of Rurality and Socioeconomic Status on College Attendance and Institutional Choice in the United States (2017, background): “Past research has examined the connection between aspirations and college choice (e.g., Ceja, 2006; Pitre, 2006), including among rural populations (Hu, 2003), and the theoretical framework employed in this study would allow for the inclusion of such variables.”
The decision-making and changing behavioural dynamics of potential higher education students: the impacts of increasing tuition fees in England (2013, background): “…2006; Maringe 2006), geographic proximity (Mazzarol and Soutar 2002), friends and family effects (Hossler and Stage 1992; Soutar and Turner 2002; Ceja 2006) and career prospects (Maringe 2006) are considered as the major factors that influence the students’ choice of a post-secondary…”
The Role of Schools, Families, and Psychological Variables on Math Achievement of Black High School Students (2010, background): “To understand the relationship between individuals and significant or “instrumental others” (Ceja, 2006) such as parents and teachers in various contexts or systems (e.g., families, schools), it was necessary to find a theory that provided constructs for talking about the relationship between and…”
Social Capital and Academic Motivation Among First-Generation Community College Students (2015, background): “For example, an examination of college choice (Ceja, 2006) has revealed that siblings frequently replaced parents as sources of social capital in the form of information about college, as parents had limited knowledge.”
Parental Engagement and Contact in the Academic Lives of College Students (2009, background): “Parents of Latino students are also perceived to be less supportive of the decision to attend college, even though several studies suggest that these parents do value education and express this value informally by emotionally and morally supporting their children’s educational and career aspirations”
First-Generation Undergraduate Students and the Impacts of the First Year of College: Additional Evidence (2012, background): “…students has primarily focused on three distinct outcome measures: (a) college choice decisions and aspirations (e.g., Bui, 2002, 2005; Ceja, 2006; Gibbons & Shoffner, 2004), (b) academic achievement (e.g., Chen & Carroll, 2005; Dennis, Phinney, & Ivey-Chuateco, 2005; Ting, 2003), and…”