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Cutting Class: Experiences of Gifted Adolescents Who Switched to Homeschooling

Laura J. Lee Center for Research in Educational Policy; The…

Homeschooling Internationally: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Phenomena

Marek Budajczak University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland,…

The Most Private Private Education: Home Education in Australia

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Economic Impact of Home and Private Schooling on the Public Education System: Iowa as a Case Study

Economic Impact of Home and Private Schooling on the Public Education…

A Heuristic Inquiry into the Stress that Home Educators Experience

Jennifer Rathmell Chiang Mai, Thailand, jen@rathmell.com1 Gail…

Transition from Home Education to Higher Education: Academic and Social Issues

Erika M. L. Jones Del Rey Church, Playa del Rey, California 90293,…

Who’s Afraid of “the Other”? How About Mixing It Up?

Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem,…

Perceived Effectiveness of Home Education Event Marketing Tools

Ryan B. Lunsford Southwestern College, Phoenix, Arizona 85032,…

Examination of Previously Homeschooled College Students with the Big Five Model of Personality

Examination of Previously Homeschooled College Students with…

Homeschooled Students’ Adjustment to College

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Emotional, social and academic adjustment to college: A comparison between Christian home schooled and traditionally schooled college freshmen

Scott White, Elizabeth Williford, John Brower, Terance Collins, Roman Merry, and Maryam Washington; Home School Researcher, 2007, Volume 17, Number 4, p. 1-7.

Home schooled students’ ability to successfully adjust to college life is one important criterion to demonstrate a positive outcome of home schooling. The present study compared . . . on the College Adjustment Scale. The mean scores of the two groups were compared across the nine CAS scales designed to measure emotional, behavioral, social and academic problems typically presenting to university counseling centers. The home schooled students scored significantly . . .

Keywords, descriptors, key terms: college, college adjustment, adults, socialization, academics, home schooling, homeschooling, home education, home-based education