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59
Citations
15946
World Ranking
1545
National Ranking
741

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Laura W. Perna is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Social Sciences, with notable contributions across Education, Political Science and International Relations, Management Science and Operations Research, Public Administration, and Gender Studies.

The research topics covered in their work include:

  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality

Recent papers by Laura W. Perna include:

  • Is a College Promise Program an Effective Use of Resources? Understanding the Implications of Program Design and Resource Investments for Equity and Efficiency (2020, AERA Open)
  • Will college promise programs improve or reduce equity? Understanding the contextual conditions that influence program implementation (2021, Education Policy Analysis Archives)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laura W. Perna are:

  • Jeremy Wright-Kim
  • Elaine W. Leigh
  • Robin LaSota
  • Joshua R. Polanin
  • Megan Austin

Publication venues where Laura W. Perna's work frequently appears include:

  • AERA Open
  • Educational Researcher
  • Change The Magazine of Higher Learning
  • Education Policy Analysis Archives
  • Review of higher education/The "review of higher education

Laura W. Perna has published a number of book chapters with Springer Nature (Netherlands), including multiple contributions to the series titled Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research between 2020 and 2024.

The researcher has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association since 2014.

Best Publications

  • The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Group Differences

    Laura Walter Perna;Marvin A. Titus

  • STUDYING COLLEGE ACCESS AND CHOICE: A PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL MODEL

    Laura W. Perna

  • Differences in the Decision to Attend College among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites

    Laura Walter Perna

  • The Contribution of HBCUS to the Preparation of African American Women for STEM Careers: A Case Study.

    Laura Perna;Valerie Lundy-Wagner;Noah D. Drezner;Marybeth Gasman

  • Understanding Differences in the Choice of College Attended: The Role of State Public Policies

    Laura W Perna;Marvin A Titus

  • The Role of College Counseling in Shaping College Opportunity: Variations across High Schools

    Laura W. Perna;Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon;Scott Loring Thomas;Angela Bell

  • Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Graduate School: Sex and Racial/Ethnic Group Differences.

    Laura W. Perna

  • The Benefits of Higher Education: Sex, Racial/Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Group Differences

    Laura W. Perna

  • Understanding the Relationship Between Information About College Prices and Financial Aid and Students’ College-Related Behaviors:

    Laura W. Perna

  • Retaining minority students in higher education : a framework for success

    Watson Scott Swail;Kenneth E. Redd;Laura W. Perna

  • Contextual Influences on Parental Involvement in College Going: Variations by Socioeconomic Class

    Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon;Angela D. Bell;Laura W. Perna

  • Moving Through MOOCs: Understanding the Progression of Users in Massive Open Online Courses

    Laura W. Perna;Alan Ruby;Robert F. Boruch;Nicole Wang

  • SEX AND RACE DIFFERENCES IN FACULTY TENURE AND PROMOTION

    Laura W. Perna

  • College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students: Variation by School and State Context

    Angela D. Bell;Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon;Laura W. Perna

  • Precollege Outreach Programs: Characteristics of Programs Serving Historically Underrepresented Groups of Students.

    Laura W. Perna

  • SEX DIFFERENCES IN FACULTY TENURE AND PROMOTION: The Contribution of Family Ties

    Laura W. Perna

  • Borrowers Who Drop Out: A Neglected Aspect of the College Student Loan Trend. National Center Report #05-2.

    Lawrence Gladieux;Laura Perna

  • Understanding the Working College Student.

    Laura W. Perna

  • The Relationship Between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status Among College and University Faculty

    Laura W. Perna

  • Understanding High School Students’ Willingness to Borrow to Pay College Prices

    Laura W. Perna

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvia Hurtado
Sylvia Hurtado University of California, Los Angeles

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