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Wade Derden, National Park Community College Michael T. Miller, University of Arkansas  \nAbstract  \nEfforts to enhance college going rates have employed a number of strategies, such as improving recruitment efforts and enhancing financial aid packages. Little effort, however, has been directed at looking at the social and human capital that might impact a residential community, and the subsequent influence this community might have on a student’s decision to attend college. Utilizing 18 community level variables in one case study US state, the study tested community expectancy as a predictor of college attendance. Study findings moderately supported community expectancy, and provided a strong research agenda for further exploration into how community’s impact individual behavior.  \nKeywords: Community expectancy, social capital, human capital, college going rates, postsecondary attendance, higher education  \nIntroduction  \nThere have been multiple efforts to increase the rate at which young people completing a secondary education go to college. Frequent studies and efforts have been directed at early college awareness, secondary school counseling, mentoring, financial aid packaging, and even marketing strategies that report the benefits of college completion. Despite an array of efforts and significant financial commitment to recruitment, the college completion rate in the United States has changed only slightly over the past five decades.  \nDeggs and Miller (2009) suggested a different factor that might impact college attendance: the community’s expectation of what youth should or should not do. They identified five elements that can impact an individual’s decision making about life roles and perceptions: formal education bodies, civic agencies, informal associations, religious affiliations, and home life. To make this suggestion, Deggs and Miller drew on three prominent philosophical sets of writing, including Dewey’s (1899/1980, 1916/2004, 1938, 1939) writings on the intersection of community, democracy, and education. Erikson’s (1950/1993, 1968/1994) identity development theory because of his belief that adolescents either struggle to identify with accepted communal normsand become participants in that community, or they struggle with rejecting those norms and become alienated. The third domain of knowledge forming the foundation of this community expectancy was Schlossberg’s transition theory (as cited in Evans, Forney, & Guido-DiBrito, 1998) in combination with life course theory (Elder, 1994, 1998; Giele & Elder, 1998) and Swidler’s (1986) concepts of settled and unsettled lives.  \nDeggs and Miller’s model of community expectancy can be translated to college enrollment by arguing that an individual learns from both formal and informal actions, and a life time of informal actions and expectations are conveyed to a youth throughout a community. These expectations are conveyed by neighbors unintentionally talking about where they attended college, about religious leaders purporting the value of education, and even from public speakers or politicians who proclaim the value of questioning and exploration beyond the town limits. Through four studies, they had found moderate positive support for the idea that communities do have the power to convey an expectation of right and wrong to community members.  \nThe purpose for conducting the current study was to specifically identify the variables that can compose community expectancy and to correlate these variables with college attendance. In addition to identifying the variables that contribute to college going, the study explored whether latent factors exist among the social, cultural, and human capital variables that might be used to identify community expectations of college attendance.  \nBackground of the Study  \nThe study began with the assumption that","cbCairKo64877ZZ4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairKo64877ZZ4","pdf",325730,13,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Purpose of the Current Study\n# Background of the Study","[{\"question\":\"What does the study test as a predictor of college attendance?\",\"answer\":\"It tests community expectancy as a predictor of postsecondary attendance using 18 community-level variables.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the study focus on community social and human capital?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that college-going decisions may be shaped by social and human capital in a residential community, not only by recruitment or financial aid.\"},{\"question\":\"What overall strength do the findings provide?\",\"answer\":\"Results moderately support community expectancy and suggest an agenda for further research on how communities influence individual behavior.\"}]","Predicting Postsecondary Attendance through Cultural Norming - A Test of Community Expectancy | PDF",1792089157,33]