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Chambers, Brittany D.; Erausquin, Jennifer Toller – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Adolescence is a critical phase of development and experimentation with delinquent behaviors. There is a growing body of literature exploring individual and structural impacts of discrimination on health outcomes and delinquent behaviors. However, there is limited research assessing how school diversity and discrimination impact…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Peer Acceptance, Predictor Variables
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Zabek, Faith; Meyers, Joel – School Psychology Forum, 2016
School climate has increasingly been recognized as an essential component of school improvement owing to the established associations between a positive school climate and academic outcomes for students. Our study examines associations among a brief measure of school climate assessing elementary student perceptions and the College and Career Ready…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Correlation
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Gregory, Anne; Clawson, Kathleen; Davis, Alycia; Gerewitz, Jennifer – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2016
Restorative approaches to school discipline are increasingly being implemented throughout the United States in an attempt to reduce reliance on suspension and eradicate the racial discipline gap. Yet, little is known about the experience of students in classrooms utilizing restorative practices (RP). This study draws on student surveys (N = 412)…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Discipline, Referral, Teacher Student Relationship
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English, David; Umbach, Paul D. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Using the 2000/01 Baccalaureate & Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:00/01), this paper employs multilevel modeling to test a conceptual model of graduate school choice that draws significantly from human capital theory while incorporating the salient concepts of cultural and social capital. The model posits that the graduate school choice…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Choice, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Human Capital
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Gehrke, Sean – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
In this study the differences in ecumenical worldview development are examined by race for 3,300 college students from 135 institutions. Results indicate that all students exhibited significant growth through college in ecumenical worldview, and students of color (Black, Asian, and Latino students) exhibited significantly higher levels of…
Descriptors: World Views, College Students, Individual Differences, Racial Differences
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Skiba, Russell J.; Chung, Choong-Geun; Trachok, Megan; Baker, Timberly L.; Sheya, Adam; Hughes, Robin L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
In the context of a national conversation about exclusionary discipline, we conducted a multilevel examination of the relative contributions of infraction, student, and school characteristics to rates of and racial disparities in out-of-school suspension and expulsion. Type of infraction; race, gender, and to a certain extent socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Discipline, Expulsion, Suspension, Disproportionate Representation
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Wang, Qiu; Diemer, Matthew A.; Maier, Kimberly S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
This study integrated Bayesian hierarchical modeling and receiver operating characteristic analysis (BROCA) to evaluate how interest strength (IS) and interest differentiation (ID) predicted low–socioeconomic status (SES) youth's interest-major congruence (IMC). Using large-scale Kuder Career Search online-assessment data, this study fit three…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Socioeconomic Status, Student Interests, Gender Differences
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Laursen, Sandra L.; Weston, Timothy J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
The education of doctoral chemists contributes to the chemical research enterprise and thus to innovation as an engine of the economy. This quantitative analysis describes trends in the production and diversity of chemistry Ph.D. degrees in the top-50 U.S. Ph.D.-granting departments in the past two decades. Time series data for individual…
Descriptors: Productivity, Chemistry, Institutional Research, Doctoral Programs
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Gottfried, Michael; Estrada, Fernando; Sublett, Cameron – High School Journal, 2015
Sexual minority students such as those identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, as well as those identifying with emerging self-labels (e.g., queer) face a host of risk factors in high school that can potentially compromise educational excellence, particularly in rigorous academic disciplines. The current study advances the area of diversity…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Minority Group Students
Lacoe, Johanna – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2013
Inequality in educational outcomes is a frequent topic of policy debate. This paper investigates one potential source of educational inequality--school safety. With panel survey data of middle school students, this paper estimates racial gaps in student feelings of safety in the classroom, in the hallways, and outside the school building, and how…
Descriptors: School Safety, Equal Education, Middle School Students, Racial Differences