Browsing by Subject "academic achievement"
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(2015-12-14)Asian American college students experience academic stress and expectations from selves and from their parents to achieve academic success. The internalized and externalized expectations are experienced by Asian American ...
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(2013-05-09)A large majority of research portrays the achievement gap as an outcome and a primary focus of what is wrong in American schools when instead it is a symptom of a larger issue. Defining the problem in education in terms ...
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(2015-07-31)Research demonstrates that behavioral self-regulation (BSR) serves as a concurrent, explanatory factor of academic achievement in various elementary grades, and that kindergarten BSR predicts growth in academic achievement ...
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(2010-07-14)The current study tested the effect of ego resilience on engagement and achievement as mediated by social relatedness, using three waves of data and controlling for the stability of each construct as well as within wave ...
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(2020-05-13)The purpose of this study was to examine mathematic academic achievement of 4th and 8th grade African American, Latinx, and Asian students by gender and content domains of TIMSS mathematics assessment, and to expand the ...
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(2011-10-21)The achievement gap between White youth and youth of color is a pervasive problem in the United States. Many cultural explanations have been provided within the academic literature to explain the differences in achievement ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation examines the construct of hope and its ability to be taught to pregnant and parenting adolescents as a strategy to improve academic achievement and dissuade repeat adolescent pregnancy. A systemic review ...
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(2011-10-21)Transition to middle school is a turbulent time of development in which friends have growing impact on adolescents’ academic adjustment. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the unique and joint contributions ...
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(2019-05-28)This meta-analysis examined how Head Start is impacting the academic school readiness skills of African American students from studies ranging from 1987 to 2017. Academic school readiness skills include early literacy, ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation describes the results of two studies that examined preservice and inservice teachers' knowledge of social and emotional learning (SEL) and its impact on academic achievement. Components of SEL, such as ...
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(2017-07-31)Parental involvement has become a popular approach to addressing the achievement gap between various racial/ethnic groups. Given the burgeoning presence of Hispanic children in public schools, the purpose of this study was ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)There has been a growing discussion in the fields of education and psychology about the relationship between social skill proficiency and academic excellence. However, the presence of extracurricular involvement as promoting ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Previous studies in the area of parental involvement in the education system were based on inconsistent parameters or definitions of the construct (Baker and Soden, 1997). The present study seeks to more clearly define ...
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(2017-05-30)Mentoring relationships can have important effects on adolescents’ psychosocial and academic outcomes; however, the transactions within these relationships that may account for this impact are not well understood. The ...