Connecting School and Home: Examining Parental and School Involvement in Readiness for College Through Multilevel SEM

Chrystal A. George Mwangi (), Alberto F. Cabrera () and Elizabeth R. Kurban ()
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Chrystal A. George Mwangi: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alberto F. Cabrera: Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Elizabeth R. Kurban: University of Maryland, College Park

Research in Higher Education, 2019, vol. 60, issue 4, No 7, 553-575

Abstract: Abstract Parental involvement is widely acknowledged as a critical factor influencing the college choice process among families. What is not clear, though, is whether this parental driven factor also takes place at the school level along with school related factors. Using a national sample of 9th grade students drawn from about 900 schools, we found that parental involvement also operates at the school context along with a high school’s academic press. Moreover, at both individual- and school-level contexts, parental involvement creates a “college-going” cultural capital in the form of attainment of milestones towards college.

Keywords: College choice; Parental involvement; Socio-economic status; School academic press; Structural equation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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