Blueprints for Student Success
High School Students' Questions about the Transtition to College
Christiane Oliveri
Karen Funke
Jennifer Clark
Tricia A. Seifert
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24926/jcotr.v25i1.2916
Keywords:
rural, student, small, town, community, identity, experiences, challenges
Abstract
This study sought to understand the questions current Montana high school students had about going to college. The best way to find this information was to approach the students themselves as the experts (Paterson, 2015) and engage in a phenomenological study to describe the lived experience of high school students in the anticipatory time prior to transitioning to college. Approaching them in a game-focused manner allowed for a shared exchange of information and generated a robust dataset.