Upward Bound:The Limitations and Obstacle

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Upward BoundThe Limitations and Obstacle
Kesha Chandler Brandon Mimms

• James Bowens
• Jontia Brown

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Research

• Research Question
• The research question for this study is what are
  the career
• choices Pre- College Program students face and
  how is the
• Pre- college Program helpful in their pursuit to
  obtain
• higher education?
• Purpose of the Study
• The purpose of this research is to investigate
  the career
• choices and opportunities of Pre-College Bound
  students.

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Literature Review

• -Students in Pre-College Programs are more
  likely to apply for financial aid than students
  who are not in pre-college programs.
• -Some of the students who apply for financial
• aid is due to there family has very low income
• and cannot afford to pay for college, and some
• students plan to work 15-20 hours while
• attending college to pay for tuition.

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Literature Review
-About 1 out of 10 from each group lived in
communities best describe as being located in
farm or open country areas. -About 40 of
UB students and 30 of non-UB students lived in
towns with populations of fewer than 10,000
people. About 30 of UB students and 40 of
non-UB students lived in communities with
populations between 10,000 and 250,000.

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Methodology

• Instruments- The instrument used in this study is
  a questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided
  into areas such as background, career choices,
  and challenges and opportunities in pursuit to
  higher education. The instrument will contained
  fourteen questions both open-ended and closed
  questions.
• Procedures- Our study is broken down into three
  groups Upward Bound, H.O.L.A Upward Bound, and
  Math and Science Regional Center.
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• Subject Selection In our research we used a
  three-tier selection process. We broke it up into
  three categories Program, Grade, and Gender.
  From the following three categories

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METHODOLOGY
Step 1 Twenty students were chosen based on
their program participation.
Step 2 Students were then divided by their
current grade.
Step 3 Finally, the students were divided by
gender.
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Results/Analysis
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Conclusion
For further information on this research please
check out the following website www.geog.umd.ed
u/homepage/courses/212/