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Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters?Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada |
Examining choice, opportunity and barriers related to post-secondary attendance and persistence.
Access to post-secondary education in Canada continues to be a controversial issue, and the roles of factors such as student financial aid, family background, and personal aspirations remain insufficiently understood. Persistence towards graduation even less so. Beginning with three broad overview chapters and continuing with a series of analyses on particular elements of the access and persistence dynamic, Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? addresses choice, opportunity, and barriers - including financial ones - related to post-secondary participation. Contributors provide compelling insights into the factors that begin to operate long before students reach the end of high school, and point to the need to consider policy initiatives that start equally early and go beyond simply making schooling affordable.
With a strong empirical emphasis and based primarily on Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, the studies in this collection make an important contribution that will inform policy discussions and decision-making in years to come.
Contributors include Lesley Andres and Maria Adamuti-Trache (University of British Columbia), Patrick Bussière (Human Resources and Social Development Canada), Lorne Carmichael (Queen's), Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy, Zhi (Jane) Li, and Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph), Kathleen Day (University of Ottawa), Ross Finnie (University of Ottawa), Marc Frenette (Statistics Canada), Jorgen Hansen (Concordia), David Johnson (Wilfrid Laurier), Felice Martinello (Brock), Anne Motte (Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation), Richard E. Mueller (University of Lethbridge), Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University), Hanqing Theresa Qiu (MESA Project), Alex Usher (Educational Policy Institute), and Yan Zhang (Statistics Canada).
With a strong empirical emphasis and based primarily on Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, the studies in this collection make an important contribution that will inform policy discussions and decision-making in years to come.
Contributors include Lesley Andres and Maria Adamuti-Trache (University of British Columbia), Patrick Bussière (Human Resources and Social Development Canada), Lorne Carmichael (Queen's), Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy, Zhi (Jane) Li, and Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph), Kathleen Day (University of Ottawa), Ross Finnie (University of Ottawa), Marc Frenette (Statistics Canada), Jorgen Hansen (Concordia), David Johnson (Wilfrid Laurier), Felice Martinello (Brock), Anne Motte (Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation), Richard E. Mueller (University of Lethbridge), Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University), Hanqing Theresa Qiu (MESA Project), Alex Usher (Educational Policy Institute), and Yan Zhang (Statistics Canada).
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Part of the Queen's Policy Studies Series (number 121 in series)
300 Pages, 6 x 9
Queen's Policy Studies Series - School of Policy Studies
ISBN 9781553392217
July 2008
Formats: Paperback
"This is a brilliant collection on many levels. Every policy-maker with a portfolio that focuses on access to post-secondary education and on the persistence to move from acceptance to graduation will have to read this ... The contributors are Canada's best in the field, and no one actually working in this policy area would ignore their analysis." Canadian Public Policy
"The volume breaks new ground and opens new ways of thinking about students, about student financial assistance and about perennial debates about who should, and who does, enjoy the benefits of higher education and at what cost." Allan Tupper, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
"The volume breaks new ground and opens new ways of thinking about students, about student financial assistance and about perennial debates about who should, and who does, enjoy the benefits of higher education and at what cost." Allan Tupper, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Ross Finnie is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Richard E. Mueller is associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge.
Arthur Sweetman is director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University.
Alex Usher is vice-president and director (Canada) of the Educational Policy Institute.
Richard E. Mueller is associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge.
Arthur Sweetman is director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University.
Alex Usher is vice-president and director (Canada) of the Educational Policy Institute.
Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters?
Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher
Table of Contents
vii
Acknowledgements ix
I INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1 Introduction: A Framework for Thinking about Participation in Post Secondary Education
Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher 3
2 Access and Persistence of Students in Canadian Post-Secondary Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Why It Matters
Richard E. Mueller 33
3 The Youth in Transition Survey: Following Canadian Youth through Time
Anne Motte, Hanqing Theresa Qiu, Yan Zhang, and Patrick Bussière 63
II ACCESS
4 The Backgrounds of Canadian Youth and Access to Post-Secondary Education: New Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey
Ross Finnie and Richard E. Mueller 79
5 The Evolution of Aspirations for University Attendance
Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy, Zhi (Jane) Li, and Thanasis Stengos 109
6 Understanding the Gender Gap in University Attendance: Evidence Based on Academic Performance, Study Habits, and Parental Influences
Marc Frenette and Klarka Zeman 135
7 The Effect of Schod Non-School Activities on High School Performance in Canada
Jorgen Hansen 153
III PERSISTENCE
8 Is the Glass (or Classroom) Half-Empty or Nearly Full? New Evidence on Persistence in Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Ross Finnie and Hanqing Theresa Qiu 179
9 Transitions and Adjustments in Students’
Post-Secondary Education
Felice Martinello 209
10 University Attainment, Student Loans, and Adult LifeCourse Activities: A Fifteen-Year Portrait of Young Adults in British Columbia
Lesley Andres and Maria Adamuti-Trache 239
IV FINANCIAL ISSUES
11 Why Are Lower-Income Students Less Likely to Attend University? Evidence from Academic Abilities, Parental Influences, and Financial Constraints
Marc Frenette 279
12 How Is Variation in Tuition across Canadian Provinces Related to University Participation in the Youth in Transition Survey?
David Johnson 299
13 A Tangled Web: The Relationship between Persistence and Financial Aid
Kathleen Day 327
14 Family Income, Access to Post-Secondary Education and Student Grants: Why Equal Access Requires More Than Loans
Lorne Carmichael and Ross Finnie 347
About the Authors 369
Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher
Table of Contents
vii
Acknowledgements ix
I INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1 Introduction: A Framework for Thinking about Participation in Post Secondary Education
Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher 3
2 Access and Persistence of Students in Canadian Post-Secondary Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Why It Matters
Richard E. Mueller 33
3 The Youth in Transition Survey: Following Canadian Youth through Time
Anne Motte, Hanqing Theresa Qiu, Yan Zhang, and Patrick Bussière 63
II ACCESS
4 The Backgrounds of Canadian Youth and Access to Post-Secondary Education: New Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey
Ross Finnie and Richard E. Mueller 79
5 The Evolution of Aspirations for University Attendance
Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy, Zhi (Jane) Li, and Thanasis Stengos 109
6 Understanding the Gender Gap in University Attendance: Evidence Based on Academic Performance, Study Habits, and Parental Influences
Marc Frenette and Klarka Zeman 135
7 The Effect of Schod Non-School Activities on High School Performance in Canada
Jorgen Hansen 153
III PERSISTENCE
8 Is the Glass (or Classroom) Half-Empty or Nearly Full? New Evidence on Persistence in Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Ross Finnie and Hanqing Theresa Qiu 179
9 Transitions and Adjustments in Students’
Post-Secondary Education
Felice Martinello 209
10 University Attainment, Student Loans, and Adult LifeCourse Activities: A Fifteen-Year Portrait of Young Adults in British Columbia
Lesley Andres and Maria Adamuti-Trache 239
IV FINANCIAL ISSUES
11 Why Are Lower-Income Students Less Likely to Attend University? Evidence from Academic Abilities, Parental Influences, and Financial Constraints
Marc Frenette 279
12 How Is Variation in Tuition across Canadian Provinces Related to University Participation in the Youth in Transition Survey?
David Johnson 299
13 A Tangled Web: The Relationship between Persistence and Financial Aid
Kathleen Day 327
14 Family Income, Access to Post-Secondary Education and Student Grants: Why Equal Access Requires More Than Loans
Lorne Carmichael and Ross Finnie 347
About the Authors 369
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