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Bonus Content and Downloads


▲ Full episode with available download


▲ Two-year college as an option for youth formerly in foster care


▲ Deciding not to participate in Teach for America


▲ College Access Day


▲ On Royel’s current research agenda


▲ Dearth of educational research into youth formerly in foster care


▲ Trauma interrupts developmental processes


▲ Challenges of conducting systematic reviews


▲ Manually scanning non-indexed journals


▲ Reaching saturation in systematic reviews


▲ Theoretical vs. conceptual frameworks


▲ Roles of individual differences, families and communities


▲ Aging out of the foster youth population


▲ Role of the study’s second rater


▲ Lack of theory among the papers Royel reviewed


▲ Royel’s definition of college success


▲ Building trust with foster youth


▲ Developing relationships with foster youth


▲ The practical application of systematic reviews in the outside world


▲ Systematic reviews in dissertations


▲ Royel’s current qualitative study using narrative inquiry


▲ ANOVA metaphor (with Laura Rendón’s levels as factors)