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Book The Acculturation Social Support and Academic Achievement of Ninth Grade Mexican American High School Students

Download or read book The Acculturation Social Support and Academic Achievement of Ninth Grade Mexican American High School Students written by Eric J. López and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acculturation Acculturative Stress and Coping Responses of Mexican American University Students

Download or read book Acculturation Acculturative Stress and Coping Responses of Mexican American University Students written by Luis Antonio Vazquez and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Academic Achievement of First Generation Mexican American Males in a Community College

Download or read book Academic Achievement of First Generation Mexican American Males in a Community College written by Carlos C. Peña and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of successful attainment and achievement of 10 Mexican American males in a rural Southwest community college. This study strives to offer insights concerning the questions: (a) what behavioral patterns of current family, peers, and conditions in school have influenced the educational decisions of these Mexican American males? and (b) what social conditions motivate these Mexican American males to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity? This qualitative research was also aimed at establishing and understanding how a selected number of Mexican American males have achieved academic success. The researcher chose 10 men with either an associate of arts or an associate of science degrees for an in-depth interview and used a semi-structured interview guide in an effort to prompt oral discourse. The interviewer posed questions concerning academic conditions, family impact, college environment, and financial issues. The responses to the questions led to similar themes involved in these students' course completion and graduation. The researcher used a theoretical framework using Bandura's Social Learning Theory (1977) in which he suggests that not only environmental factors, but motivational factors along with self-regulatory mechanisms affect an individual's behavior. This research illustrated the conditions that facilitated reaching the participant's educational goal and mission, which was to complete a two-year degree at the community college. The inquiry examined the behavioral patterns that have been an influence on the educational decisions of these Mexican American males, and what social conditions have motivated them to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity.

Book The Academic Achievement of Mexican American Students

Download or read book The Academic Achievement of Mexican American Students written by Marc Swarttz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Correlates of Academic Achievement Among Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants

Download or read book Correlates of Academic Achievement Among Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants written by Nayeli Yesenia Chavez Dueñas and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latino population currently represents the largest minority group in the U.S. The 2002 U.S. Census Bureau reported that about 37.4 million Latinos presently living in the United Sates. Despite the increasing size of the Latino population, their level of academic attainment continues to be very low compared to that of the U.S. population and to that of other ethnic minority groups. This study examined factors that have been associated with academic achievement among Latinos such as immigration status, levels of acculturation, academic aspirations and motivations with a sample of Mexican-descent students. The results indicate that academic motivations, acculturative stress, and bilingualism are associated with academic achievement among the Mexican descent population as a whole. Nevertheless, several within group differences were found. Furthermore, there were significant gender differences found with respect to academic achievement, academic aspirations and English proficiency.

Book Exploring Resilience and Academic Achievement

Download or read book Exploring Resilience and Academic Achievement written by Diana L. Wildermuth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demography of the United States is changing rapidly creating challenges in the classrooms and ultimately changing the educational system in the United States due to this increase in diversity. With this change there is a need for educators and educational researchers to know more about the most rapidly growing ethnic group: Latinos. The purpose of the present study was to investigate why some Latino students struggle to achieve in school while other Latino students excel in their educational pursuit. This study differs from other studies since it compares academic performance differences between Mexican (n=56) and Mexican American students (n=30) in a small suburban school district in an agricultural area in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The present study investigated barriers to academic achievement such as discrimination, acculturation, language acquisition and socioeconomic status, and looked at variables related to academic success. The study focused on two psychological constructs as possible predictors of academic achievement for this group of students: resilience and acculturation. In addition, a variety of variables were used in the study as demographic predictor variables. These included: birthplace (whether the student was born in the United States or Mexico), the student's level of acculturation, the length of time in the United States, the student's level of family socio-economic status, the student's level of resilience, gender, home language, and educational placements (ESL, Special Education, technical education enrollment). The outcome variables included a variety of measures of academic achievement including grade point average and SAT scores. All of the predictor variables were analyzed against all of the outcome variables using Pearson correlations and multiple regression. The findings of this study have addressed multiple issues surrounding resilience, acculturation and academic achievement within the new demography of the United States. While there were statistically significant findings, they are not necessarily meaningful due to the small effect size. Nonetheless, it is imperative that researchers continue to explore what factors may contribute to the success of some Latinos while others do not succeed. For example, one somewhat unexpected finding was the strength of the relationship between acculturation and academic achievement, since a student's cultural competence was a strong predictor of academic success. In addition to these findings and a subsequent discussion, this study highlights the need for more culturally sensitive resilience measures or acculturation measures and ways to support Latino students in order to bridge the academic achievement gap that exists. This study did bring attention to what may be societal struggles that impede the success of Latinos in the United States education system.

Book Academic Performance Acculturation and Ethnic Identity Traits of First and Second Generation Mexican American High School Students in a Rural Iowa Town

Download or read book Academic Performance Acculturation and Ethnic Identity Traits of First and Second Generation Mexican American High School Students in a Rural Iowa Town written by George Leland Iber and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnic Identity Acculturation and Class Identity as Predictors of Academic Achievement Among Mexican American Adolescents

Download or read book Ethnic Identity Acculturation and Class Identity as Predictors of Academic Achievement Among Mexican American Adolescents written by Steven Richard Sandoval and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factors Affecting the Achievement of Mexican Americans

Download or read book Factors Affecting the Achievement of Mexican Americans written by Norma G. Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: