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Direct linkHenderson, Jack L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Nationally, 30% of high school students do not graduate. Among this percentage, 50% are African-American. This study focused on at-promise African-American male classroom engagement where the researcher employed a mixed-methods methodology. Findings reveal that in order to engage and keep at-promise African-American males in high school, educators…
Descriptors: Males, Mixed Methods Research, African American Students, Teaching Methods
Benally, Darryl H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study examined the motivating factors and barriers of Native American male students acquiring postsecondary education. This study sought to understand the similarities and differences between motivating factors and barriers as they corresponded to their decisions to attend or not attend college. Further, key issues regarding the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Barriers, American Indian Students, Males
Download full textEasey, Michael – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
This paper explores the decline in boys' participation in post-compulsory rigorous mathematics using the perspectives of eight experienced teachers at an independent, boys' College located in Brisbane, Queensland. This study coincides with concerns regarding the decline in suitably qualified tertiary graduates with requisite mathematical skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Males, Focus Groups
Allen, Belinda K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This phenomenological case study explored the perceptions and experiences of mentors who work for a community-based mentoring program that was created to provide at-risk minority students with male role models. Most studies from the past 20 years have assessed mainly the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of mentoring among at-risk minority…
Descriptors: Mentors, Community Programs, Phenomenology, Case Studies
Peer reviewedMcKee, Ann C.; Stein, Thor D.; Nowinski, Christopher J.; Stern, Robert A.; Daneshvar, Daniel H.; Alvarez, Victor E.; Lee, Hyo-Soon; Hall, Garth; Wojtowicz, Sydney M.; Baugh, Christine M.; Riley, David O.; Kubilus, Caroline A.; Cormier, Kerry A.; Jacobs, Matthew A.; Martin, Brett R.; Abraham, Carmela R.; Ikezu, Tsuneya; Reichard, Robert Ross; Wolozin, Benjamin L.; Budson, Andrew E.; Goldstein, Lee E.; Kowall, Neil W.; Cantu, Robert C. – Brain, 2013
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive tauopathy that occurs as a consequence of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. We analysed post-mortem brains obtained from a cohort of 85 subjects with histories of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury and found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 68 subjects: all males, ranging…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Head Injuries, Chronic Illness, Brain
Risser, Scott D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
To investigate the relationship between relational aggression and school performance, this study examined the relative and combined associations among relational aggression, overt aggression, and victimization and children's academic performance. Additionally this study examined the relative associations among relational and overt aggression and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Academic Achievement, Relationship
Kimonis, Eva R.; Cross, Brittany; Howard, Aisha; Donoghue, Kathleen – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits (i.e., lack of empathy/guilt, uncaring attitudes) are believed to be a developmental antecedent to adult psychopathy and identify antisocial youth at risk for severe and persistent aggression. The psychosocial histories of antisocial and aggressive individuals with psychopathic traits are characterized by abusive or…
Descriptors: Children, Anxiety, Empathy, Delinquency
Lee, Jihyun – Written Communication, 2013
Based on eighth-grade writing assessment data from the 1998 (N = 20,586) and 2007 (N = 139,900) National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), this study examines the relationships among students' writing attitudes, learning-related behaviors, and gender in relation to writing performance. Overall, the effects of attitudes were slightly…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Writing Tests, Data Analysis, Writing Evaluation
Hejazi, Elaheh; Lavasani, Masoud Gholamali; Amani, Habib; Was, Christopher A. – Journal of Research in Education, 2012
The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between academic identity status, goal orientations and academic achievement. 301 first year high school students completed the Academic Identity Measure and Goal Orientation Questionnaire. The average of 10 exam scores in the final semester was used as an index of academic…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Questionnaires
Manovski, Miroslav Pavle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Boys who sing in school are often marginalized, taunted, sometimes called "gay." What if "singer" is someone's whole identity, and that person also happens to be gay? This autoethnography (Ellis, 2004) is a story of the education and development of such a singer and how, within this context, a voice teacher with an empowering…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Males, Homosexuality
Folan, Peter F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research contributes to a body of literature that looks for effective responses to the gendered performance gap, the research into the effects of single-sex education, and the social construction of masculinities. This qualitative inquiry focuses on a bounded group of male students who graduated from New England single-sex high schools and…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Gender Issues, Identification (Psychology), Achievement Gap
Moore, Antionette L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how the computer is utilized in the daily lives of seven African American male youth in the southeastern region of the United States. Critical pedagogy was selected as the theoretical framework using Paulo Freire ideas of problem-posing education to promote awareness towards using the computer…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, African Americans, Males
Edwards, Anntwanique DeVonne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African-American males are overwhelmingly represented in the nation's dropout rates. Dropping out of school has serious social and economic consequences for our society. The dropout rate is overwhelmingly represented by African-American male students, but limited attention is given to student voice. This study examines African-American male…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Student Attitudes, Dropouts
Ayro, Ivan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Latino/a population is one of the fastest growing ethnic groups nationwide. It is estimated that the Latino/a population increased by 43% since 2000. Although this may be the case, data shows that Latino males continue to be underrepresented within the educational system at the post-secondary institutional level. Case studies of five Latino…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Ethnicity, Self Efficacy
Foote Sykes, Darold E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research has shown that the adolescent African American male, in comparison to his peers of other races, is challenged by a diversity of destructive factors that significantly affect his future. This study examined the disparity in academic achievement that exists between African American male students and other student populations in the United…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, African American Students, Males, Racial Differences
