College valued as an important step into adulthood, to take the step to furthering your education in order to be successful. It is a system created to test the limits of a student, with venturing off into a new setting, college has several obstacles. Testing your ability to strive, as you encounter new relationships, more intensive school work, and learning to be responsible without your parents.
Literature Review There have been multiple studies done by social scientist in attempt to seek out the relationship between the parent’s education level, socioeconomic status and how it influences student’s college success. Although a student may not have a choice in the matter, parent’s education level can be a contributing …show more content…
According to a study students’ with at least one parent in the STEM field, which consist of science, technology, engineering, and math, are more likely to choose a major in a stem field than parents who are not in that field. (Erica Harwell, 2012). This can be a limiting factor for those of low socioeconomic class, if parents of the lower class did not exceed past high school then their jobs more than likely are not in the STEM field. Of 234 low-income families interviewed, majority said that the best way they could help their children is by providing support, and social skill. This is different from parents with high socioeconomic status. Parents with a college education encourage school completion and engage in more conversations with their personal experience (Rockwell, 2011). Another limiting factor for parents with lower levels of education may not feel as though they are capable of help their child due to not feeling as adequately intelligent (Hill, 2004).Linking parental educational level to predict an individual’s academic success can be …show more content…
Previous research pointed out students whose parents were of low socioeconomic status tended to show a stronger determination in pursing a major of higher class than those already of a high class. (Misran, 2012), leading me to believe that students with mothers of a higher degree would skip classes more than those with parents with a higher degree, due to the fact that they may feel as though going to class is important and they attend class because they want to do better, in order to achieve a higher socioeconomic class, this did not hold true but the data showed that although few, in the highest number of skipped classes per week these students skip more. Though class attendance did not hold true for these students, my research has shown that students with a mother of a high school education or less were more likely to agree that they were in college to obtain a higher status in class. Since students with parents with parents with a high school education or less were more determined to achieve a higher socioeconomic status, I also hypothesized that these students would have a higher GPA, this also proved to be false, it proved that first generation student’s GPA were lower than those whose mothers have a higher
Literature Review There have been multiple studies done by social scientist in attempt to seek out the relationship between the parent’s education level, socioeconomic status and how it influences student’s college success. Although a student may not have a choice in the matter, parent’s education level can be a contributing …show more content…
According to a study students’ with at least one parent in the STEM field, which consist of science, technology, engineering, and math, are more likely to choose a major in a stem field than parents who are not in that field. (Erica Harwell, 2012). This can be a limiting factor for those of low socioeconomic class, if parents of the lower class did not exceed past high school then their jobs more than likely are not in the STEM field. Of 234 low-income families interviewed, majority said that the best way they could help their children is by providing support, and social skill. This is different from parents with high socioeconomic status. Parents with a college education encourage school completion and engage in more conversations with their personal experience (Rockwell, 2011). Another limiting factor for parents with lower levels of education may not feel as though they are capable of help their child due to not feeling as adequately intelligent (Hill, 2004).Linking parental educational level to predict an individual’s academic success can be …show more content…
Previous research pointed out students whose parents were of low socioeconomic status tended to show a stronger determination in pursing a major of higher class than those already of a high class. (Misran, 2012), leading me to believe that students with mothers of a higher degree would skip classes more than those with parents with a higher degree, due to the fact that they may feel as though going to class is important and they attend class because they want to do better, in order to achieve a higher socioeconomic class, this did not hold true but the data showed that although few, in the highest number of skipped classes per week these students skip more. Though class attendance did not hold true for these students, my research has shown that students with a mother of a high school education or less were more likely to agree that they were in college to obtain a higher status in class. Since students with parents with parents with a high school education or less were more determined to achieve a higher socioeconomic status, I also hypothesized that these students would have a higher GPA, this also proved to be false, it proved that first generation student’s GPA were lower than those whose mothers have a higher