Exploring the Effects of Ability to Pay on Persistence in College

Student Aid and Its Role in Encouraging Persistence

“…Some examples include the following: Bean, 1990;Mallette and Cabrera, 1991;Stage 1989;Tinto, 1993;and Williamson and Creamer, 1988. In addition to efforts to test the models of Vincent Tinto (Braxton et al, 1997;Cabrera et al, 1990;Halpin, 1990;Hurtado and Carter, 1997;Milem and Berger, 1997;Nora et al, 1990;Tierney, 1992) and John Bean (Andreu, 2002;Farabaugh-Dorkins, 1991;Himelhoch et al, 1997;Stahl and Pavel, 1992), there is a growing body of literature that examines the effects of student financial aid on student persistence (e.g., Cabrera et al, 1992;DesJardins et al, 2002a;Dowd and Coury, 2006;DuBrock and Fenske, 2000;Paulsen and St. John, 2002;St. John et al, 1996;Singell and Stater, 2006).…”

Training Future Scientists: Predicting First-year Minority Student Participation in Health Science Research

“…To the extent that consciously set goals influence individual action (Ryan 1970), students who aspire for undergraduate and graduate degrees in the sciences may engage in specific behaviors that enable them to achieve their goals. The way that individuals take steps toward reaching a goal is often shaped by their level of commitment to that goal (Cabrera et al 1990). Difficult goals elicit high levels of performance, as individuals recognize the need to invest greater levels of energy and effort to complete challenging objectives (Locke and Latham 2002).…”

Factors affecting initial enrollment intensity: part-time versus full-time enrollment

“…A number of researchers have used national data sets such as the National Longitudinal Surveys [NLS] (Borus and Carpenter, 1984;Cabrera, Stampen, and Hansen, 1990), the High School and Beyond [HS&B] (Zucker and Dawson, 2001), or the Current Population Survey…”