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Elementary Educators' Perceptions of Design, Engineering, and Technology: An Analysis by Ethnicity
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Mendoza Diaz, Noemi V.; Cox, Monica F.; Adams, Stephanie G. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2013
This mixed-methods pilot study extends researchers' understandings about elementary teachers' (K-6) perceptions of design, engineering and technology. In the first phase of the study, a reliable and valid survey was given to thirty-five participants in a teacher professional development academy sponsored by the Institute for P-12 Engineering…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Elementary School Teachers, Mixed Methods Research, Pilot Projects
The Serious Games of Racial Accounting in Schools
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Martinez, Martha Irene – Current Issues in Education, 2011
Educational disparities are frequently framed in racial comparisons that are based on data generated by sorting and counting racial subgroups. Our reliance on these data, and the sorting and counting mechanisms entailed therein, is fundamental to debates about racial inequalities. What is largely ignored in achievement gap discourse is how racial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Race, Data Collection, Ethnicity
Perceived Barriers to Employment Success: Are There Differences between European American and African American VR Consumers?
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Zanskas, Stephen A.; Lustig, Daniel C.; Ishitani, Terry T. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2011
Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were differences between European and African American vocational rehabilitation consumers' perceptions of the barriers they experience towards obtaining employment. A secondary purpose was to determine whether there were differences in these perceptions based upon gender…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Measures (Individuals), Employment, Educational Background
Effects of Game Technology on Elementary Student Learning in Mathematics
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Shin, Namsoo; Sutherland, LeeAnn M.; Norris, Cathleen A.; Soloway, Elliot – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This paper reports the effects of game technology on student learning in mathematics as investigated in two data sets collected from slightly different subjects. In the first, 41 second graders (7 or 8 years old) from two classes used either a technology-based game or a paper-based game for 5 weeks. For the next 13 weeks, both classes used a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Academic Achievement, Statistical Analysis, Grade 2
Mexican American and European American Ratings of Four Alcoholism Treatment Programs.
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Atkinson, Donald R.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1994
A survey of 72 Mexican American and 196 Anglo community-college students examined attitudes about alcohol use, addiction models, and the relative effectiveness of four types of alcoholism treatment programs. Mexican American students reported less alcohol use and rated all programs as more effective than did Anglos. Among Mexican Americans,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alcoholism, Anglo Americans, College Students
As Others See Us. A Comparison of Japanese and American Fulbrighters.
Uyeki, Eugene – 1993
This study examined the experiences and present attitudes of Japanese and American Fulbrighters who went to the United States (U.S.) and Japan during the period 1951-90. The study sought to understand how these graduate students and scholars incorporated education and related experiences in a different society and culture into their own lives. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cultural Influences, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries