How do high school students structure an important life decision? A short-term longitudinal study of the college decision-making process |
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| Authors: | Kathleen M Galotti Melissa C Mark |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Carleton College, One North College St., 55057 Northfield, MN |
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| Abstract: | This study details the processes students use and the information they consider as they confront what is likely to be their
first major life decision. Over the course of a year, 322 college-bound high school students participated in up to three survey
sessions in which they described their thinking about college decisions. At each session, students rated the frequency with
which they had consulted various sources of information or engaged in different decision-making activities. They also listed
and rated the importance of the criteria they were using, and listed the schools they were actively considering. Responses
were analyzed as a function of time of survey, level of parental education, academic ability, and gender. Throughout the year,
students considered roughly the same number and type of criteria. There were expected shifts in the kinds of information sought
and activities undertaken. Higher-ability students listed significantly more criteria and slightly (but nonsignificantly)
more schools than did students of other ability levels, especially early in the process. A variety of gender differences emerged
in the information sought and the criteria used to make this decision. |
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