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Walls, Leon – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
As the nation's K-12 classrooms become increasingly more racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse, it is incumbent upon the science community to seize opportunities to attend to the rhetoric of reform, namely to enhance scientific literacy for all students. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework, this study examined 112 nature of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Critical Theory, Race
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Chang, Mitchell J.; Sharkness, Jessica; Hurtado, Sylvia; Newman, Christopher B. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This longitudinal study examined factors that contribute to the persistence of underrepresented racial minority (URM) undergraduates in STEM fields. The primary source of data came from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's 2004 "The Freshman Survey" (TFS) and 2008 "College Senior Survey" (CSS). The sample…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students