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Forest County’S Historically Underrepresented Rural Students And Barriers To College, Tracy Ash
Forest County’S Historically Underrepresented Rural Students And Barriers To College, Tracy Ash
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This study used newly collected survey data from the Perceptions of Educational Barrier Scale – Revised (PEB-R; Gibbons, 2005) to examine the reported educational barriers of students who are currently enrolled at the University of Midwest and who graduated from one of the five designated rural high schools in Forest County, Illinois. The research sample consisted of 29 students. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between the PEB-R mean scores of reported educational barriers to post-secondary opportunities of historically underrepresented students who graduated from any of the five rural high schools in Forest County and …
Identifying Barriers Faced By Adult Learners In General Educational Development Programs, Matthew Patrick Beasland
Identifying Barriers Faced By Adult Learners In General Educational Development Programs, Matthew Patrick Beasland
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
It is estimated that 70% of all newly created jobs in Illinois by 2020 will need education beyond a high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) diploma. In Illinois, 12% of adults 25 and older do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent. Individuals without a high school diploma or GED are twice as likely to be unemployed and if they are employed are more likely to be in a low-wage position. On average an individual without a high school diploma or GED will earn roughly $10,000 less annually. Given the increasing need for a high school …