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- Title
Postsecondary Choices of Nontraditional-Age Students: Non-Credit Courses or a Credential Program?
- Authors
Kortesoja, Sandra L.
- Abstract
The article discusses a study of choices made by nontraditional-age students between noncredit courses and postsecondary credential programs in the U.S. based on the 1999 National Household Education Surveys (NHES). Among the barriers to the postsecondary participation of adults with multiple social roles are lack of time and cost. Logistic regression analyses and an assessment of the influence of complex sample design effects were performed in the study. It mentions the potential of community colleges to serve as gateways to greater social and economic opportunity in light of their role in serving large numbers of nontraditional-age students. Also stressed is the importance of effective postsecondary education alternatives to the competitiveness of the U.S.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHOICE (Psychology); COLLEGE students; NONCREDIT courses (Education); POSTSECONDARY education; SOCIAL surveys
- Publication
Review of Higher Education, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0162-5748
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rhe.0.0109