Planning for College and Careers

How Families and Schools Shape the Alignment of Postsecondary Expectations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2328509
AutoresCaitlin E Ahearn (0000-0003-3866-4833, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume94
Fascículo4
Páginas271-293
Data de publicação2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380407211039272
OpenAlexW3193676012
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas51

Students with aligned educational and occupational expectations have improved college and labor market outcomes. Despite extensive knowledge about the ways social background and school context contribute to educational expectations, less is known about the role of social intuitions in shaping expectational alignment. Drawing on data from the 2009 High School Longitudinal Study, I estimate the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in alignment. I examine how differences in observed student characteristics contribute to, and whether school-based postsecondary planning initiatives mitigate, that inequality. Results from multinomial regression models show large socioeconomic differences in ninth-grade alignment, and I identify achievement, attitudes about college and careers, and relationships with significant others as contributors to those differences. Participation in postsecondary planning is associated with reduced uncertainty and increased alignment, but this relationship does not differ by social background, indicating that the examined college and career planning policies do little to address inequality in alignment

Context (archaeology) · Context effect · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Higher education · Inequality · Longitudinal study · Population · Postsecondary education · Social inequality · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Higher Education Research Studies · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance