Variation in Broadband Access Among Undergraduate Populations Across the United States

IF 1.9 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Research in Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI:10.1007/s11162-024-09775-w

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Abstract

Increasing numbers of students require internet access to pursue their undergraduate degrees, yet broadband access remains inequitable across student populations. Furthermore, surveys that currently show differences in access by student demographics or location typically do so at high levels of aggregation, thereby obscuring important variation between subpopulations within larger groups. Through the dual lenses of quantitative intersectionality and critical race spatial analysis alongside a QuantCrit approach, we use Bayesian multilevel regression and Census microdata to model variation in broadband access among undergraduate populations at deeper interactions of identity. We find substantive heterogeneity in student broadband access by gender, race, and place, including between typically aggregated subpopulations. Our findings speak to inequities in students’ geographies of opportunity and suggest a range of policy prescriptions at both the institutional and federal level.

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全美大学生宽带接入情况的差异

摘要越来越多的学生需要使用互联网来攻读本科学位，但宽带接入在学生群体中仍不公平。此外，目前按学生人口统计或所在地显示上网差异的调查通常都是在高度聚合的情况下进行的，从而掩盖了更大群体中不同亚群体之间的重要差异。通过定量交叉性和批判性种族空间分析以及 QuantCrit 方法的双重视角，我们使用贝叶斯多层次回归和人口普查微观数据来模拟本科生群体在更深层次的身份互动中宽带接入的差异。我们发现，在学生宽带接入方面存在着性别、种族和地域的实质性差异，包括在典型的汇总子人群之间。我们的研究结果说明了学生机会地域的不平等，并提出了一系列机构和联邦层面的政策建议。

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Research in Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

9.50%

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期刊介绍： Research in Higher Education publishes studies that examine issues pertaining to postsecondary education. The journal is open to studies using a wide range of methods, but has particular interest in studies that apply advanced quantitative research methods to issues in postsecondary education or address postsecondary education policy issues. Among the topics of interest to the journal are: access and retention; student success; equity; faculty issues; institutional productivity and assessment; postsecondary education governance; curriculum and instruction; state and federal higher education policy; and financing of postsecondary education. The journal encourages submissions from scholars in disciplines outside of higher education, and studies from outside the United States that address issues that are of interest to the readership. The journal will on occasion publish short notes of a methodological nature, literature reviews of topics pertaining to postsecondary research, and “research and practice” studies illustrating how postsecondary research can inform decision making.