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precollegiate

precollegiate

6.2
About courses and activities that prepare students before college
  • adjective
  • /ˌpriːkəˈlɛdʒiɪt/
  • US
translation icon : preuniversitario
  • The precollegiate curriculum must prepare students for the rigors of university-level coursework.
  • precollegiate education
  • precollegiate anthropology
  • precollegiate classroom

Examples

  • Students in precollegiate programs often participate in extracurricular activities to enhance their college applications.

  • Eighteen states have launched precollegiate programs to support high school students interested in becoming teachers (SCTQ, 2003).

    Academic text (2005)
  • Applying socially critical analysis is more difficult in precollegiate settings.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Historically in Europe, precollegiate music education occurred through private lessons for the privileged few.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Since the era of the "new social studies," precollegiate anthropology has continued to grow stronger in the social studies curriculum.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Precollegiate private schools affiliated with colleges and universities have a long and distinguished history in the United States.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Educators have found greater support and enthusiasm for their efforts to incorporate archaeology into precollegiate strategies.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Perhaps the reason for ignoring precollegiate education is the widespread impression that civics courses are of little value.

    Academic text (1995)
  • A major portion of the book is "Teaching about Cultural Diversity," demonstrating the unique strength that anthropology offers to the precollegiate curricula.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Academic accessibility refers to the precollegiate academic preparation of a student (Heller, 2001).

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

precollege
vsprecollegiate
  • US
4.8

Happening before starting college to help students get ready

refers only to the period before entering one specific higher education type

Surface Forms

precollegiate positive

Morphology

precollegiate = collegiate (semi-transparent) = pre + college + iate

Given knowledge of 'collegiate', adding 'pre-' clearly yields the meaning 'before college' or 'before entering college'.

Etymology

Precollegiate begins with pre- meaning 'before', as in preschool, and uses collegiate from college, so precollegiate describes the time or programs that happen before someone goes to college.