Threats To Internal Validity

Earning an education could cost you for your entire life, especially if you do not apply for the various types of financial aid. After earning their degree, several students do not earn enough money with the field they have chosen to pay off their debt, making the degree seem pointless. Families that pay for their children’s tuition often wonder, like Linda Lee, if their child is getting what they pay for. Parents pay for the tuition because they do not want their children to miss out on the “college experience.” However, when their child fails to make the right decisions or simply acts their age, it leaves the family wondering if they have made a

The article “Motivating Firs-Generation Students For Academic Success and College Completion” by Tanjula Petty describes the additional challenges first generation students have to overcome while attending college. A well-heeled diversity and world of opportunities are a few of the positive outcomes of attending college. According to Tanjula Petty (2014), “Yet, the most cited and widely used definition for first- generation students is someone whose parents has not completed a college degree”. Students whose parents did not acquire a college degree, have a lack of support at home. Their family members are not equipped to provide information required for college difficulties students may have. They lack knowledge and resources that students that students with college-educated parents have. The article states that these students are less psychologically prepared for college. Many low-income families do not understand the benefits of graduating from college. First generation students spend more time working and less time studying unlike their classmates. (Petty 2014) Coming from low-income families, many of these students have to divide their time between college and working. Leading students to prioritize money before school. Many work full time while going to school. Working more hours than studying can potentially harm students ' success.

Education is very important to my parents and it is not just a means of obtaining a good job in the future, but it serves as a way to get respect and social standing in a world that is so heavily focused on societal and class statuses. Being the first generation to have gone onto higher education, the pressures, put on by my family, can sometimes be overwhelming. In fact, at times I think my parents are more excited and ready for me to graduate than I am, which can be quite comical.

​Did you know that in the US, only 16% of household include a married couple raising their children (​Krogstad). Alfred Lubrano in his work “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts”, talks about the changes he experienced in college and how it affected his relationship with his parents (531-537). Lubrano claims that the enrichment of education expands the distance between the college students and their parents (532). I disagree with his point and suggest that it is not the college education that creates the distance, and in some cases the aloofness is caused before reaching the college age. Several factors contribute to dissonance in parent-child relationship.

The socioeconomic status of an individual’s parents has always been one of the clear-cut forecasters of the individual’s academic success and educational accomplishment. The correlation between family socioeconomic uniqueness and student accomplishment is one of the most forceful patterns in educational scholarship; however the reasons and means

Internal validity of this study included data collection process and student personal interest in education. For example, students may have scored in exam because they concern about their own education. Reliability of this study instrument has not been tested. This is the first time this group will have this survey. There is no former survey to use as a standard to see if there are many changes.

“Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education come on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation” (1). Many people believe that school isn’t for everyone, and whoever goes is privileged for doing so. Countless people in the world today do not attend college, and this is mainly due to an influence of those in their family. Perhaps they are unsupportive of higher education, their parents and family members may view their entry into college as a break in the family system rather than a continuation of their schooling and higher learning. Most of the first-generation students decide to apply to colleges, because they aspire to jobs which require degrees. However, unlike some students whose parents have earned a degree, they often seek out college to bring honor to their families, and to ensure they make a decent amount of money for their future.

Students from all over the United States are told all through their life that they need to attend college if they ever want to be successful, however, this is far from the truth. Often schools are culprits for driving students to attend money driven colleges, in other cases it is family. While schools all too often make the push on students to continue their schooling, parents can cause the same situation, as they may not have a degree and be working a low-paying factory job. Now kids already don’t want to be like their parents when they get older, so seeing them suffer in poverty or barely above the poverty line can cause some dissatisfaction, further seeking a degree to live a life that they never got. What many

Some people argue that to send kids to college parents have to get loans so they can pay for their son/daughter tuition fee. In the article it says, "Parents ask whether the time and money involved in a bachelor 's degree will lead to a better life for their child" (Simcox 1). This quote shows how some students end up not going to college because their parents are afraid to take loans because parents do not want to put the burden on their child or on themselves. In addition, they are right for saying that if they get loans they will have to pay it off later with interest which puts people in debt, and sometimes it takes years to pay it off. What they fail to understand is that the college degree still holds value. According to Carlson, "Yes, college is still a worthwhile investment, for both individuals and society" (Carlson 1). It is a fact that the cost of higher education is a lot but, it is also true that higher education can bring a positive change in anyone’s life.

Thus, parental background might play a role in how likely the children will start their education early. The education that children receive is very much correlated to the education that their parents received when they were children. Research shows that the literacy of their parents strongly affects the education of their children. One reason for this is that “parents who have gone beyond a high school education are found to be more involved with their infants and children than those who did not finish high school...many less educated parents simply have more unmanaged stress in their lives, and this stress interferes with ability and opportunity to interact with their child” (Paulsen et al. 2002). Typically, parents who have finished high school and gone on to receive additional schooling understand the need to have a higher education and are more equipped to guide their children when they go through school. And logically, that makes sense. The more time parents spend making money, the less time they have helping their child’s education. But while it could be reasoned that early college preparation pertains more exclusively to students who have parents that undergone higher education, it can’t be the only reason for correlation does not mean causation. Parents that spend little with their children can still hire tutors and college counselors to do the work for

The 2014 U.S. General Social Survey data was used to analyze and support previous research findings regarding education. The results include strong correlations between one’s education level and one’s spouse’s education level (r² = .390) and between one’s parents’ education (r² = .481). The magnitude, or strength of the association is moderate between one’s level of education and father’s level of education as well as one’s level of education and mother’s level of education. There appears to be a weak correlation in the variables of one’s level of education and number of siblings in one’s family (r² = .078). The survey supports previous research that suggest parents’ level of education is likely to influence your level of education and educationally

Internal Validity is the inexact truth about derivations with respect to cause-impact or causal connections. Along these lines, internal validity is just pertinent in studies that attempt to make a causal relationship. It 's not significant in most observational or descriptive studies. One of the things that is most hard to handle about internal validity is that it is just important to the particular study being referred to. That is, you can consider internal validity as a "zero generalizability" concern. All that internal validity means is that you have confirmed that what you did in the study created what you wanted to happen. It doesn 't let you know whether what you accomplished for the study was what you needed to do or whether what you happened was what you needed to happen.

In my social bubble, teaching has always carried a one dimensional connotation to it, a word for academics. This, in itself, is not a bad thing. Students should be taught the deep and meaningful intricacies of Heron’s formula and the insightful lessons that can be gleamed in literary works such as King Lear. However, while academics should be treasured, teaching someone about life is

Parents’ expectations influence child outcomes through multiple pathways. Parental expectations directly affect the amount of parent-child communication about school. Furthermore, families with high educational aspirations for their children provide more out-of-school learning opportunities for them, and their children were more likely to attend college (Child Trend, 2012). Parents of high-achieving students set higher standards for

When you are unable to make an explanation to a research resulting in making a wrong generalization, it is termed as a threat to external validity. For instance, when a research is conducted on a particular community on their food habits, the results cannot be generalized to a different community as they may have difference in the availability of foods, concepts and cultures. There are