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Book Factors of Hmong American Student Success

Download or read book Factors of Hmong American Student Success written by Jennifer J. Minea and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research question addressed in this project was, what do Hmong American stakeholders working in education describe as factors that may contribute to Hmong American student success? Research encompasses a qualitative ethnography where the author brings together teaching experience, current research on Hmong achievement and one-on-one interviews with Hmong Americans working within the field of education at various capacities. The author explores the following areas as potential factors that can contribute to a student's success: parent involvement and expectations, Limited English Proficiency (LEP) status, school culture, gender role expectations, socioeconomics, biculturalism, and current achievement trends.

Book Factors Contributing to Hmong University Students Academic Success and Failure

Download or read book Factors Contributing to Hmong University Students Academic Success and Failure written by Danai Chowwiwat and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally and culturally, the Hmong valued formal education highly as an open door to economic stability and higher social status, but historically, they have never had the opportunity to truly live out their educational values. Today, the Hmong are living in the greatest country on earth, the United States of America, where they have found the opportunities to live out their dreams and hopes. Adjusting from preliterate culture to modernization and technological and industrial culture is a big challenge the Hmong are facing in their adopted country. As parents are adapting to new cultures in America, they felt they also needed to preserve their traditional cultures. They are living in two contrasted worlds. As result, parents are slowly assimilated into mainstream society, and children are growing up in between two worlds. Children are inheriting Hmong cultural values by reinforcement of traditional practices at home and learn about American values and cultures in school. In fact, schools have functioned as major agents of assimilation for Hmong children. Many Hmong adults having difficulty in assimilating to American mainstream culture because they are lacking English skills and have only minimal formal educational background. They have no hope to be successful educationally and economically. However, they appreciate the educational opportunities their children receive in America and want them to become educated, because education, especially higher education, is the only means to ensure their future economic security. In order to reach their dreams, Hmong parents and children have to pay a heavy price for their journey to educational and economic successes. I hope that by hearing their struggles and experiences will help us get an insight of the whole story.

Book Blueprint for College Success

Download or read book Blueprint for College Success written by Pao Lor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factors Affecting Hmong Graduate Students Pursuing Mental Health Degrees

Download or read book Factors Affecting Hmong Graduate Students Pursuing Mental Health Degrees written by Yeezong Vang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research study explored the factors affecting Hmong students pursuing a master's or doctoral level mental health-related degree. Participants were recruited through both purposeful and snowball sampling techniques. Eight Hmong graduate students participated in hour-long interviews and the data was analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research (Hill et al., 2005) methodology. Five connections were also discovered through analyzing the domains, categories, and subcategories, including (a) participants wanted to honor parents; (b) a variety of cultural factors were influential to how Hmong students experienced education; (c) seeking a culturally appropriate career was vital; (d) racial discrimination impacted self-esteem and self-efficacy for being successful in a graduate program; and (e) cultural gender norms played a role in educational experience. An amalgamated vignette of the participant responses was used to illustrate the career development issues for this population. The Social Cognitive Career Theory (Lent, 2013) framework was used in the vignette. In addition, based on the experiences of Hmong students enrolled in a graduate mental health program, tentative recommendations for graduate programs include more clearly integrating multiculturalism into the program, providing support groups, and increasing awareness of Hmong culture to better understand the needs of Hmong students.

Book Parental Support Factors of Gifted and Talented Hmong Students Academic Success

Download or read book Parental Support Factors of Gifted and Talented Hmong Students Academic Success written by La Yang and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research question for this dissertation study was: What are the parental support factors that gifted and talented Hmong students and parents identify as contributors to gifted Hmong students' academic success? To answer this question, the qualitative research in-depth interview method was used to interview four gifted and talented Hmong high school students who attended gifted programs with an A average GPA and four of their parents. The inductive data analysis method was used to analyze the data gathered. From the data analysis, five recurring themes were identified by both the students and their parents as parental involvement factors that had contributed to academic success.

Book Impacts of Participation in Hmong as World Language Classes on Outcomes for Hmong American High School Students

Download or read book Impacts of Participation in Hmong as World Language Classes on Outcomes for Hmong American High School Students written by William Vang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the consequences for urban Hmong American high school students of participating in two years sequences of high school level Hmong as World Language courses. The Hmong population in the United States is a product of war, exile and resettlement at the end of the Vietnam War. Since their arrival, both the Hmong people and American social and political institutions have been trying to learn how to deal with each other more effectively and respectfully. One of the key American institutions engaging with the Hmong diaspora has been the public schools. This study explores one program in one public high school in north central California, initiated by Hmong educators themselves. The Hmong as World language program seeks to provide relevant academic education for Hmong American students by teaching Hmong as a "foreign language" for purposes of high school graduation and college admission requirements. Some of the most important issues facing young Hmong Americans include not having access to quality and equitable educational opportunity and losing their ethnic and cultural identity and language as they go through school. The results are often low academic performance in school or dropping out altogether. These pressures also push many young Hmong Americans away from their families and their traditions and into negative live choices which further disrupt the Hmong community (Cha, 2010; O'Reilly, 1998). The Hmong migrations to the United States are recent. Therefore, studies of Hmong educational attainment and cultural endurance in the United States are fairly new. However educational researchers and especially new Hmong scholars are beginning to identify factors that contribute to the problems faced by this group of students and to their success. Vang's (1998) study showed a correlation between cultural retention and students' academic achievement. Hutchinson (1997) and Rumbaut (1989) reported that connectedness to Hmong culture positively affected educational performance of Hmong American youth. Moreover, Ngo and Lee (2007) report many findings that Hmong and other Southeast Asian students who adopt a strategy of accommodation without assimilation are the most successful (See also, McNall, et al., 1994 and Lee, 2005). This study is ground in Yosso0́9s (2005) theory of community cultural wealth. Yosso identifies six forms of community capital which together constitute a pool of community cultural wealth that minority students, such as the Hmong American students in this study can draw upon. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative analyses. These included statistical analysis of the relationship between participation in Hmong as World Language (HWL) instruction and other measures of high school success and in depth analysis of interviews and focus group dialogues with teachers of HWL and recent graduates who had taken HWL. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses found that taking HWL for two years had many positive outcomes for students and no identifiable negative consequences. Positive academic outcomes included improvements in high school GPA and increased skill and confidence performing academic work in all subjects. An additional educational outcome was students' confidence and optimism about future educational and career plans. Positive outcomes for the students outside of school included strengthening their relationship with family, community and culture. Students born in the United States who took two years of HWL talked of coming back home to their Hmong identity and families. Students born in Thailand, recent arrivals from the closure of the last Vietnam era refugee camps, insisted that the HWL classes helped them learn how to navigate the system of American high school requirements. This study demonstrates the importance of incorporating the strengths of the Hmong American community into the education of their children and confirms the power of heritage language to bind a community together and to develop high level thinking in bilingual, bicultural students. The study concludes with recommendations for expanding the availability of Hmong language studies to other schools and grade levels with identifiable Hmong student populations and for further research on the educational journey of Hmong students in the United States and globally.

Book Successful First generation Hmong College Students Descriptions of Their Education Experiences in Minnesota

Download or read book Successful First generation Hmong College Students Descriptions of Their Education Experiences in Minnesota written by Onenee G. Saloka and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of successful first-generation Hmong students who attended and graduated from high school in Minnesota. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with fifteen successful first-generation Hmong students who completed public high school in Minnesota. Emanating from the participants' discussions of their high school experiences, four major themes were identified: self-driven as a motivator, family as a motivating factor, peers as a motivating factor, and a positive connection with caring teachers. The central question the study asks is as follows: How did first-generation Hmong students who succeeded in their high schools in Minnesota experience it? For the purposes of this study, success encompasses graduating from high school. The essence of their school experience is the integration of personal responsibility, supportive school environment, and supportive home environment. All of the aforementioned when combined translated to academic success. To provide a caring, effective school experience that promotes self-driven individuals and a positive school environment where students can strive for success, it is essential for school leaders to understand the experiences of individuals who have already graduated.

Book Barriers that Impact Hmong Students in Post secondary Education

Download or read book Barriers that Impact Hmong Students in Post secondary Education written by Francois Vang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hmong families generally understand that education is the key to their survival and success in the United States. The literature review in this study suggests that cultural barriers and adjusting to the U.S. are strong indicators of why Hmong students do not succeed academically. This research examines the personal history and risk factors that affect Hmong students in post-secondary education from the students’ perspectives. Ten interviews were conducted with Hmong college students on what they perceive to be the high risk factors that impact Hmong students in post-secondary education. A basic content analysis was performed to code and analyze the data, and emerging themes were recorded.

Book Factors that Contributed to College Success for the Hmong

Download or read book Factors that Contributed to College Success for the Hmong written by Yang Mee Hang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian American Students in Higher Education

Download or read book Asian American Students in Higher Education written by Samuel D. Museus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Students in Higher Education offers the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of existing theory and research related to Asian American students’ experiences in postsecondary education. Providing practical and insightful recommendations, this sourcebook covers a range of topics including critical historical and demographic contexts, the complexity of Asian American student identities, and factors that facilitate and hinder Asian American students’ success in college. The time has come for institutions of higher education to develop more holistic and authentic understandings of this significant and rapidly growing population, and this volume will help educators acquire deeper and more intricate knowledge of Asian American college students’ experiences. This resource is vital for college educators interested in better serving Asian American students in their institutions.