In the regression models, we considered the following potential confounding factors: age (continuous years), educational attainment (college degree, master/doctoral degree), cigarette smoking (never or past, current), history of cardiovascular disease (yes, no), high blood pressure (yes, no), high cholesterol (yes, no), and type 2 diabetes (yes, no).
Yet higher education remained largely untouched; only the Open University embraced the comprehensive principle, offering advice and guidance rather than requiring a prior level of academic attainment before degree study.
SES was assessed by educational attainment (university degree or equivalent, higher education but not university degree, A-level, O-level, secondary education, some foreign educational qualifications, or no educational qualifications) and by total net nonpension household wealth (household is defined as a couple with any dependent child) categorized using quintiles.
Discrete (cf. Table 1) Citizenship (single or dual) Current citizenship Discrete (cf. Table 1) Income Total salary from regular job Discrete (cf. Table 1) Educational attainment Highest degree obtained Discrete (cf. Table 1) Dependent variables Frequency of phone calls How often do you call your relatives in Senegal?
These results are not surprising in the Singapore context, where nurses are starting to work towards attainment of degree qualifications.
Higher levels of enrollment are usually sustained, in part, because "credentialing"—the attainment of degrees or certificates of achievement has become a social necessity.
Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by educational attainment, including degrees completed.
Previous research links test anxiety to poor academic performance, a decreased attainment of degrees, and limited career options (Enright et al. 2000; Ergene 2003; Kennedy and Doepke 1999; Mealey and Host 1992).
University of the People (UoPeople) -- the world's tuition-free, non-profit, online university dedicated to servicing all those constrained -- has already admitted close to 100 Haitian individuals for the attainment of degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science.
Data on acceptance of evolution, religiosity, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree attainment, educational attainment, high school dropout rate, average teacher salary, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita were analyzed for the 50 states.
