IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF MALE MILITARY ENLISTEES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY
IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF MALE MILITARY ENLISTEES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY
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1989
Authors
Wright, Stephen E.
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Miller, Merl E.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify factors
which contribute t o the post-secondary educational
attainment level o f male military enlistees.
The research problems were :
1. When socioeconomic status/family background
factors, educational aspiration factors, educational/
academic performance factors and military factors were
considered separately, how did each factor relate to
the post-secondary educational attainment of male
military enlistees.
2. When socioeconomic status/ family background
factors, educational aspiration factors, educational/
academic performance factors, and military factors were
considered jointly, how did they relate to the postsecondary
educational attainment of male military
enlistees? The sample for this study was taken from the
National Longitudinal Study (NLS). The selected 845
sample was tracked from the NLS 1972 base year survey
through the 1979 fourth follow-up survey.
Multiple regression analysis was the analytical
tool selected for analyzing the data within this study.
Besides the overall significant relationships
between socioeconomic status/family background,
educational aspiration, educational/academic
performance, military factors, and educational
attainment, the results of this investigation revealed
that a number of individual independent variables were
important predictors of educational attainment. It was
found that mother's educational aspirations for
children, mother's education, father's occupation, high
school grade point average, student aptitude, student
high school program, reason for entering the military
-- to receive in-service college education, and
educational plans after.military service -- college
were individually all significant predictors of
educational attainment of male military enlistees.