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Owner: Frim Ampaw
Owner Email: frimpomaa.ampaw@morgan.edu
Paper Title: Bounded by Place: Rural Students, College Knowledge, Educational Motivation, and College-Going
Session Title: Act Like You Know Us: Understudied and Underresearched Populations in Higher Education (Table 1)
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/16/2023
Presentation Location: Chicago, IL
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Rural Education, Survey Research
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Frim Ampaw, Morgan State University; Sarah Williams, Grand Valley State University; Skylar Duke, Mid Michigan College; Anne Hornak, Central Michigan University
Unit: Division J - Postsecondary Education
Abstract: This study seeks to understand the effect of rural students’ college knowledge on their postsecondary intentions. Rural students experience inequitable learning and college opportunities as compared to their suburban and urban counterparts, and they are an understudied population. Using a survey of high school seniors at five rural schools, we use logistic regression to predict the effect of the student’s college knowledge and motivation on their postsecondary plans. Our findings show that being extremely motivated in school, and college knowledge, does influence students’ plan to attend a four-year college.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2002553