Do High College Costs Depress Student Achievement in K12?
New research suggests that perceptions of college affordability can influence student motivation and academic performance as early as seventh grade. Rising costs can become yet another deadweight on poor students’ performance. The “Education Optimists” blog offers the following account of this research, which appeared in the April issue of Psychological Science: Researchers provided low-income Chicago 7th-graders in two randomly selected classrooms with one of two kinds of information: Classroom A received information about need-based financial aid opportunities, indicating that college was a possibility for them while Classroom B was provided information about the enormous costs associated with a college education, indicating that college was not a viable option (specifically they were told that the average college tuition costs $31,160 to $126,792). The researchers then assessed students’ motivation levels and mentality towards school using questionnaires about goals, grades, and tim
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