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Download full textRyan, Sarah – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Inasmuch as current U.S. population projections indicate that Latino students will comprise over half the growth in the college-age population during the coming decades, the puzzle of Latino educational attainment presents perhaps one of the most critical policy concerns relevant to any efforts targeted at increasing U.S. levels of educational…
Descriptors: College Choice, Enrollment, Evidence, Educational Attainment
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Direct linkFerguson, Kristin M.; Mindel, Charles H. – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
This study tested a model of the effects of different predictors on individuals' levels of fear of crime in Dallas neighborhoods. Given its dual focus on individual perceptions and community-level interactions, social capital theory was selected as the most appropriate framework to explore fear of crime within the neighborhood milieu. A structural…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Support Groups, Crime, Safety
Dufur, Mikaela J.; Parcel, Toby L.; McKune, Benjamin A. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2008
Research examining the influence of social relationships on child outcomes has seldom examined how individuals derive social capital from more than one context and the extent to which they may benefit from the capital derived from each. We address this deficit through a study of child behavior problems. We hypothesize that children derive social…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models, Child Behavior, Social Adjustment
Huang, Denise; Coordt, Allison; La Torre, Deborah; Leon, Seth; Miyoshi, Judy; Perez, Patricia; Peterson, Cynthia – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
The relationship between afterschool staff and students is very important for encouraging and promoting longevity in school. The primary goal of this study was to examine the connection between perceptions of staff-student relationships and the educational values, future aspirations, and engagement of LA's BEST students. To this end, we…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Student Surveys, Social Capital, Teacher Student Relationship
Dewhurst, Frank W.; Navarro, Juan G. Cegarra – Learning Organization, 2004
External communities of practice are groups formed by company clients and employees based on common interests, commitment, mutual trust and collaboration whose members regularly share knowledge and learning. This paper examines how external communities of practice contribute to the creation of relational capital through an empirical investigation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning, Shared Resources and Services, Small Businesses
Beaudoin, Christopher E.; Thorson, Esther – Human Communication Research, 2006
This study relied on telephone survey interviews of adults in two U.S. metropolitan areas to examine whether the relationship between mass media use and social capital varies according to ethnicity. A multigroup approach taken with structural equation modeling validates a four-factor model of social capital for Blacks and Whites and then, with the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, African Americans, Whites, Mass Media
