Two references you are required to use (available on Canvas): Goldrick-Rab, Sara, and Seong Won Han. 2011. “Accounting for Socioeconomic Differences in Delaying the Transition to College.” The Review of Higher Education 34(3):423–45. Hearn, James C. 1992. “Emerging Variations in Postsecondary Attendance Patterns: An Investigation of Part-Time, Delayed, and Nondegree Enrollment.” Research in Higher Education 33:657–87. Independent variables you will have (all measured during high school on base-year surveys in 2009 except GPA)1: Parental education (whether parent with most schooling had a four-year college degree or more vs. less) Parental educational expectations for child (whether parent expects child to earn a four-year college degree or more) Self-educational expectations (whether one expects to earn a four-year college degree or more) High school GPA (total GPA from high school transcript) Dependent variable you will have (measured in second survey follow-up in 2016): Delayed college enrollment (whether first enrolled in college more than four months after high school graduation vs. enrolled four months or less after high school graduation) Directions for the literature portion of the assignment: This portion of the assignment requires you to locate AT LEAST TWO research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. You will use the research articles you find, along with the research articles I have assigned, for your research paper (., included in the literature review section of your paper and informing your thinking about your own research). If possible, your article(s) should have been published since 2000. The articles you find should be as relevant to your paper as possible, that is, the dependent variable and at least one independent variable should be similar to what you will have in your analysis. (Reviewing the measures section and the lists of independent variables in the results tables are ways to check for similarity with the independent and dependent variables you will be using.) For each of your independent variables, try to find at least one study (article) that used a variable similar to it in the analysis (., parental education or an SES index for parental education, high school GPA, standardized test scores, or grades in particular classes for high school GPA). give below the reference information for the two articles you found using American Sociological Association (ASA) format (2) upload with this document a PDF of each article you located. Directions for the theory and hypotheses portions of the assignment: Think about a theory or theories that may be relevant to your research paper. Using one or more theories that are relevant, write hypotheses, one hypothesis for each independent variable in your paper. Questions to answer (label each part of your answer): (1) List the two (or more) research articles you found in ASA format. You should upload a PDF of each article with your assignment to Canvas. (2) (a) What theory or theories relevant to your research paper will you use? (b) What is your source/are your sources for the theory or theories? (c) State and briefly describe it (them) here and why it is/they are relevant. (3) Write four hypotheses, a separate one for each of your independent variables and your dependent variable. (2) Introduction. Introduces the reader to the research that you conducted and what you studied is interesting and important. Make sure you mention your research question here. Literature review and theory. You need to review at least four research articles (published in peerreviewed, academic journals) that are relevant to your study. I will assign a couple articles that you must use in your paper and you also will need to locate some literature (at least two articles) on your own. You also should review the theory or theories that you used to guide your research. In-text citations in this section and in the rest of your paper must be in American Sociological Association (ASA) format. ) Hypotheses. Indicate what your hypotheses are. You will have multiple hypotheses. s. Briefly describe the data you used. Be sure to indicate the sample size. (I will help you with sample size information.) Describe the survey questions from which your variables were created. Be sure to indicate what your independent variables are and your dependent variable is. Also be sure to indicate the response categories of your variables and whether any recoding of your variables was done. (I will help you with this.) Finally, indicate how the data were analyzed (., type of regression used). Results. You will discuss descriptive statistics for all of your variables as well as inferential statistics. Discussion and conclusion. Summarize your findings here. Be sure to indicate whether your hypotheses were supported. You should discuss your findings in terms of the theory and past research (literature) you covered earlier in your paper. Also be sure to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your research and make suggestions for future research. References. At the end of your paper, provide a complete reference for each research article you used. You are required to use American Sociological Association (ASA) format for your references. (10) Tables. You will need to provide tables, one containing your descriptive statistics and another one containing your inferential statistics (more on these later).
