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Educational  Achievement and Cognitive Attainment Domain
By Zakia Redd, M.P.P, Stephanie Cochran, B.B.A., Elizabeth Hair, Ph.D., and Kristin Moore, Ph.D.
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GRADES TEST SCORES GRADES PROGRESSION VS. Repetition High school graduation College attendance Academic skills/homework completion attendance at school
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educational goals honors, awards high school credits earned participation in extracurricular activities in high school participation in extracurricular activities in college attitudes about school  
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In comparison to control group:

- Program participants were more likely to be attending a two-year or four-year post-secondary school one year after the end of the program.

- Program participants showed no difference in college enrollment/ attendance rate.

Best bets for improving college attendance rates:

- High quality mentoring and academic tutoring and educational assistance.

Multivariate, longitudinal studies suggests that most of the individual family, and school characteristics found to be positively related to graduating from high school are the same as those that are related to attending college.  See High School Graduation section.

In addition, the following has been found to be related to college attendance:

- Curricular rigor and credits earned in high school.


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