- The findings identified academic rigor, specifically advance placement (AP) classes, pursuing an academic high school diploma, gender (female), being from a single parent home, family SES, and self expectancy as predictors of attending post-secondary education, while gender (male) and first generation status (not being first generation) predicted STEM degree attainment.
- The study also found that the overall models for predicting post-secondary enrollment and predicting STEM degree attainment were significant, while the model predicting majoring in a STEM field was not significant.