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Parental Involvement In The College-Going Process: A Q Methodology Study, Glori White Peters
Parental Involvement In The College-Going Process: A Q Methodology Study, Glori White Peters
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study explored parent perspectives about their participation in a federal TRIO pre-college program. Specifically, parents were asked to identify the program elements that encouraged and supported their participation in the college-going process of their child in a TRIO pre-college program. Forty parents of low-income, first generation TRIO students were purposefully selected for this study because they had participated in the parent component and because their child had enrolled in college within a year of high school graduation.
Q methodology was used for this study because it is designed to address the subjective first person viewpoint. In this Q study, …