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Upward Bound journal article notes: Work in progress

Effectiveness:

Statistics : According to a study done by Policy and Program Studies Service of the United States Department of Education


 * In students with lower educational expectations, Upward Bound was shown to increase both enrollment and credits earned at four-year institutions.
 * Repeated participation in Upward Bound until high school graduation was shown to improve educational results such as the rate of four-year college attendance and credits earned at four-year institutions.

Minority participants


 * In an examination of the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, researchers found:
 * That only 7% of students eligible for federally funded precollege programs enrolled in such programs.
 * Upward Bound participants were still less likely to experience positive educational outcomes than students who did not participate.
 * .576 times as likely not to enroll in a four-year institution
 * .555 times as likely not to enroll in a postsecondary institution of any kind
 * Upward Bound students were 31% more likely to drop out of the postsecondary institution in which they enrolled.
 * Though some of the statistics reporting participants' outcome are not optimal, the students participating in Upward Bound are an academically vulnerable population. Therefore, these results do not necessitate that Upward Bound is a deficient program, but that the students may require more support than they receive.

Perceptions:


 * Parents
 * In a study of parents of students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Upward Bound program, the vast majority of parents reported that their children took more challenging classes and received better grades after attending the program.
 * Parents reported that after the program, their children seemed to have better attitudes regarding educational attainment.
 * Parents believed the program helped their children to foster personal integrity, self-assuredness, and ambition. Parents also believed that their children exhibited more mature behaviors, such as budgeting money and reliable communication.
 * Students
 * At-risk students
 * Study design:
 * According to a quantitative and qualitative study of 20 participants of an Upward Bound program at a Midwestern community college,
 * Some students in this study mentioned that they did not plan to attend college before attending an Upward Bound program.
 * Studied students received social and academic preparation, and felt they received more social than academic preparation in the program.
 * In this study, students spent an average of 3.9 years in a four-year institution.

Article evaluation: Sociology in Japan


 * Everything is on topic
 * Nothing is distracting
 * I think some information could be added about current sociological work in Japan
 * Some of the grammar could be improved
 * Neutral standpoint
 * Most of the citations are from scholarly journals
 * There is one citation to Bloomberg about Japan's aging population that seems like the wording could be improved to be less similar to the article's original wording.
 * On the talk page, one user said that they are concerned that too many of the article's references are from encyclopedias.
 * The article is unrated.
 * The article is part of WikiProject Japan and WikiProject Sociology.