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Predicting Academic Success Using a Critical Approach: The Impact of Campus Climate, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem among Latinx High School Students
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Jaqueline V. Dighero; Ilene N. Cruz; Gabriela Chavira – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2024
Using LatCrit and QuantCrit, we examined the effect of school climate, ethnic identity, and self-esteem on GPA in a sample of 300 Latinx high school students. We found significant positive correlations between climate and GPA as well as self-esteem and GPA. Moreover, using structural equation modeling, we found self-esteem mediated the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Grade 9, Grade 10
African American Male Administrators and Their Perceptions of the Freshman Transition Experience for African American Males: A Collective Case Study
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Kenneth C. Fraga – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: Despite the difficulties students encounter during the freshman transition, the phenomenon remains an understudied topic in education. The purpose of this collective case study was to gain an understanding of the Grade 8 to Grade 9 transition experience for African American male students in one suburban school district. Furthermore, this…
Descriptors: African Americans, Administrators, African American Students, Males
Differential Item Functioning in a Teacher-Created Benchmark Mathematics Assessment
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Chandra Shekar Karnati – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the presence of gender and ELL Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in a teacher-created mathematics benchmark test in one public charter school district in Northeast Georgia. DIF occurs when an item behaves differently in different subgroups, rather than measuring a test taker's true ability. The geometry…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Delphi Technique, Test Items, Test Construction