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Do perceptions matter regarding the costs and benefits of a post-secondary education? : Perceptions concernant les coûts et les avantages d'une formation postsecondaire sont-elles importantes?

20 May 2008

Much of the discussion on the impact of reasons rather than financial concerns—in partic ular, financing on student plans is covered in the issues of identity and the tensions and conflicts asso- research on the effects of family income. [...] The first step was to combine a social- _ Measurement psychological theory from the literature on student development—i.e., the Integrated Paradigm of Student The ability to accurately measure an individual’s Development (Côté and Levine, 1997, 2000)—and sense of the benefits of PSE in relation to its costs has sociological research related to the role of higher numerous practical uses. [...] Results from this Concept Refinement component allowed us to begin the assessment of different forms of instrument validity—that is, how The first component involved the testing and refine- well the empirical measure operationalizes the ment of the preliminary concepts believed to be underlying construct of perceived return on invest- associated with PRoI. [...] With respect to the issue of the factor than the cohorts that go directly from high school structure of the PRoI16, it can be seen that two of the to PSE, so it was important to check their results four non-monetary benefits items load onto the against the younger FC4 cohort. [...] When other factors known to benefits, (2) the costs somewhat outweigh the benefits, predict PSE attendance are taken into account in (3) the benefits cancel out the costs, (4) the benefits multivariate analyses, measures based on the PRoI somewhat outweigh the costs, and (5) the benefits construct are able to significantly predict who will greatly outweigh the costs.
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51
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Canada

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