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The 2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12)

This presentation provides an overview of studies conducted by NCES' Postsecondary, Adult, and Career Education (PACE) Division, specifically focusing on the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). The presentation covers who is studied and how often, when the studies are conducted and how they are interrelated, the topics investigated, the findings generated, and the data sources used. It discusses sample studies conducted by PACE, such as the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) and the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B). The presentation also highlights key findings from NPSAS and BPS, and emphasizes the topics to be discussed at the Technical Review Panel (TRP) meeting.

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The 2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12)

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  1. The 2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12) What You Need To Know Prior to the Technical Review Panel Meeting July 13–14, 2010 Alexandria Walton Radford MPR Associates

  2. What Will This Presentation Cover? Overview of studies conducted by NCES’ Postsecondary, Adult, and Career Education (PACE) Division • Who is studied and how often? • When are the studies conducted and how are they interrelated? • What topics do these studies investigate? • What findings do these studies generate? • What data sources do these studies use? Topics that will be discussed at the TRP meeting

  3. Sample Studies Conducted By PACE • National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) • Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) • Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) • National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF) • Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS)

  4. Who is Studied and How Often?

  5. When Are the Studies Conducted and How Are They Interrelated? BPS Beginning Postsecondary Students College Freshmen Longitudinal follow-ups NPSAS National Postsecondary Student Aid Study All undergraduate and graduate students Cross-sectional 1 year B&B Baccalaureate and Beyond Graduating College Seniors Longitudinal follow-ups NPSAS:871986-87

  6. What Topics Do These Studies Investigate? NOTE: Shaded topics are covered in the NPSAS study.

  7. What Kinds of Findings Can NPSAS Generate? NPSAS:08 results • 32% of undergraduates had parents who never attended college • 23% of undergraduates were parents • 34% of undergraduates attended college full time for the full academic year • 48% of undergraduates worked 35 or more hours per week • 38% of undergraduates took out a student loan • 22% of graduate students received employer support

  8. What Kinds of Findings Can BPS Generate? BPS:04/06 results • 66% of beginning college students were under 20 years old • 48% of beginning college students started at a 2-year institution • 70% of recent high school graduates enrolled full time in a bachelor’s program were enrolled at the same institution 3 years later; an additional 20% of them had transferred • 50% of beginning college students who were employed full time during their first year of college had left without completing a degree within 3 years of enrolling

  9. What Kinds of Findings Can B&B Generate? B&B:93/03 results • Both 4 years and 10 years after graduation, college graduates were more likely to be employed in the field of education than in any other industry (19 and 22 percent, respectively) • Ten years after graduating, 40 percent of college graduates had been enrolled in graduate school • Ten years after graduating, 10 percent of college graduates who took out Stafford loans as undergraduates and had not enrolled in graduate school had defaulted on those loans

  10. What Data Sources Do These Studies Use?

  11. Focus of TRP meeting • 2012: Conducting NPSAS and BPS base year • NPSAS - new issues to capture? • BPS • human capital framework • postsecondary persistence and completion www.rti.org

  12. Topics to be Discussed at TRP Meeting Given this focus of BPS, how can we best measure: • Expected Future Wages • Social Integration • Out-of-Pocket Costs and Debt Aversion • Students’ Uncertainty Around Information and Key Events • Students’ Discount Rate www.rti.org

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