[CaTEACH-SMI] GSOE Special Colloquium - 12/10/07

[Leslie Bushong]

  Graduate School of Education
  University of California, Riverside

Invites you to attend a Colloquium by:

Mr. Ryan Wells
Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
University of Iowa

Speaking on:

“Expectations for postsecondary education:
Exploring issues of immigrant status, gender, 
race/ethnicity, and high school composition”


Past literature has shown that high expectations 
are a necessary, though insufficient, step toward 
higher education enrollment and degree 
attainment. However, the models used in past 
research do not adequately represent the 
expectation-formation process for all students. 
For example, children of immigrants have higher 
average expectations for college than 
nonimmigrants, but have less overall success in 
higher education. Since a major portion of 
students' socialization experiences in the U.S. 
take place in the schools they attend, I present 
research which examines the ways that school 
composition affects immigrant students' 
educational expectations. Educational 
expectations and expectation-formation also 
differ by gender and race/ethnicity. I present 
additional research that examines the gender-gap 
in educational expectations as well as the 
relationship of race/ethnicity with this gap. 
This research lays the groundwork for future 
studies of enrollment, “unrealized expectations,” 
persistence, and attainment for sub-populations 
of students at both community colleges and four-year institutions.


Monday, December 10, 2007
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
1215 Sproul Hall


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Leslie Bushong
Director, California Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI)
1104 Pierce Hall
University of California, Riverside
voice: (951) 827-4970
fax: (951) 827-4971
website: http://smi.ucr.edu



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