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Bittencourt, Tiago – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to examine how students inhabiting distinctive social spaces and experiencing considerably different material realities define, value and problematize the concept of international mindedness. Drawing on a larger multi-sited ethnographic study of two International Baccalaureate schools in Ecuador, the study found that…
Descriptors: Social Class, International Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries
May, Henry; Rodriguez, Awilda; Sirinides, Philip M.; Perna, Laura W.; Yee, April; Ransom, Tafaya – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
As a critical step in understanding the impacts of IB, the analyses presented in this report examined the selection mechanisms behind IB participation across Florida, the state with the second highest representation of IB programs in the nation. We use longitudinal student and school-level data from 1995 through 2009 from the Florida K-20…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Background
Willingham, Warren W.; Morris, Margaret – 1986
The college careers of students who had participated in the Advanced Placement Program (AP) in secondary school were studied, based on extensive information on 4,814 students who participated in the Personal Qualities Project, a longitudinal study in nine colleges and universities. The project included information on 1,115 AP and 3,699 non-AP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students