دورية أكاديمية
Linguistic, cultural, and narrative capital: computational and human readings of transfer admissions essays.
| العنوان: | Linguistic, cultural, and narrative capital: computational and human readings of transfer admissions essays. |
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| المؤلفون: | Alvero AJ; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA., Pal J; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA., Moussavian KM; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA. |
| المصدر: | Journal of computational social science [J Comput Soc Sci] 2022; Vol. 5 (2), pp. 1709-1734. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 30. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Country of Publication: Singapore NLM ID: 101755127 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2432-2725 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 24322725 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Comput Soc Sci Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: [Singapore] : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2018- |
| مستخلص: | Variation in college application materials related to social stratification is a contentious topic in social science and national discourse in the United States. This line of research has also started to use computational methods to consider qualitative materials, such as personal statements and letters of recommendation. Despite the prominence of this topic, fewer studies have considered a fairly common academic pathway: transferring. Approximately 40% of all college students in the US transfer schools at least once. One quirk of the system is that students from community colleges are applying for the same spots for students already enrolled in four year schools and trying to transfer. How might different aspects the transfer application itself correlate with institutional stratification and make students more or less distinguishable? We use a dataset of 20,532 transfer admissions essays submitted to the University of California system to describe how transfer applicants vary linguistically, culturally, and narratively with respect to academic pathways and essay prompts. Using a variety of methods for computational text analysis and qualitative coding, we find that essays written by community college students tend to be distinct from those written by university students. However, the strength and character of these results changed with the writing prompt provided to applicants. These results show how some forms of stratification, such as the type of school students attend, inform educational processes intended to equalize opportunity and how combining computational and human reading might illuminate these patterns. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42001-022-00185-5. Competing Interests: Conflict of interestOn behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest. (© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.) |
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| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Accumulated capital; Classification; Computational text analysis; Evaluative contexts; Institutional stratification; Qualitative coding; Transfer admissions essays; sociocultural capital |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20221010 Latest Revision: 20221130 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20221213 |
| مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC9524730 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s42001-022-00185-5 |
| PMID: | 36213757 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Find this article in full text from Springer Verlag. | تدمد: | 2432-2725 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s42001-022-00185-5 |