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Booth, Margaret Zoller; Abercrombie, Sara; Frey, Christopher J. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
This research examines the relationship between ethnicity, ethnic identity, self-efficacy, and academic achievement within a multi-ethnic mid-sized city in the US Midwest. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, middle and high school adolescents (Fall, N = 482; Spring, N = 392) were surveyed and interviewed over the course of one year to investigate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnicity, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Riegel, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this research was to explore the construct of academic optimism at the principal level and examine possible explanatory variables for the factors that emerged from the principal academic optimism scale. Academic optimism contains efficacy, trust and academic emphasis (Hoy, Tarter & Woolfolk Hoy, 2006). It has been studied at the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Elementary Schools, Principals, Resilience (Psychology)