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Dykzeul, Theodore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Current 11th grade U.S. History textbooks are Eurocentric and tell a biased portrayal of the country's history. This study analyzed the four most frequently used history textbooks in the most 25 populated school districts across the State of California using a mixed-method design, to show the degree to which they are Eurocentric. The four…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Grade 11
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Daryl Axelrod; Jennifer Kahn – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This paper extends research that looks at the intersection of multimodal composing and maker education. We present findings from a fourth iteration of a multidisciplinary classroom design study in which high school youth made digital comics based on literary novels in an 11th grade language arts classroom in a predominantly Hispanic, low-SES,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Language Arts, Cartoons
Jose L. Bedolla – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how the application of the community cultural wealth model can help raise the capacity of first-generation Latino at-promise youth towards finding greater educational success in a secondary school setting. Participants included first generation Latino at-promise students and their parents…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, Student Empowerment
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Espinoza, Sarah M.; Borowsky, Iris W.; Eisenberg, Marla E.; Martin, Christie L.; McMorris, Barbara J. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Hispanic/Latina students face difficulties engaging in physical activity, but schools can help by integrating activity into accrue the school day and offering sport and activity-based extracurriculars. In this study, we examined physical activity (PA) and school-related factors among adolescent Hispanic/Latina students. Participants (N = 5,539)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Barriers, Physical Activity Level, Athletics
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Herrera, Nancy; Gloria, Alberta M.; Castellanos, Jeanett – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
Using the psychosociocultural approach, the mediating role of perceptions of high school responsiveness on perceived academic abilities, mentorship, and school environment with academic persistence decisions, respectively, was examined. For a sample of 104 Latinx high school students, results revealed a meaningful reduction in the relationships…
Descriptors: High School Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Persistence, Decision Making
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Gonzalez, Lidia; Lucas, Nicole; Battle, Juan – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Using data from the National Center of Educational Statistics' (NCES) 2009 High School Longitudinal Study, this article studies the relationship between mathematics identity and mathematics success for LatinX students by relying on critical race theory and intersectionality as theoretical frameworks. The quantitative analysis relies on…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Mathematics Achievement
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Maribel Santiago; Tadashi Dozono – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Drawing from research with 11th-grade history students, the authors illustrate how students' racial/ethnic and language experiences influence their analysis of Mexican American discrimination. Latinx students' experiences with white privilege helped them understand why 1940s Mexican Americans claimed whiteness to access better schools.…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, History Instruction, Mexican Americans
Angela Christy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this quantitative ex-post facto study was that African American, Latino, and Native American students have lower reading fluency than Caucasian counterparts. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent incorporating more literature written by African American, Latino, and Native American authors had on the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Adolescent Literature, College Entrance Examinations, Reading Tests
James Lewis Sellers – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore how district funding for 4 years of PSAT administrations for all students in Grades 8-11 impacted Hispanic students at a North Texas school district. Using college admissions data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), the researcher examined overall district-wide college admissions percentages for…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, High Schools, College Entrance Examinations, Testing
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Seltzer, Kate – Written Communication, 2022
This article centers on Faith, a Latinx bilingual student who, because of her failure to pass a standardized exam in English language arts, had to repeat 11th-grade English. Despite this stigma of being a "repeater," during the year-long ethnographic study I conducted in her classroom, Faith proved to be an insightful and critical reader…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, English Language Learners, High School Students, Grade 11
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Ballysingh, Tracy Arámbula; Rangel, Virginia Snodgrass; Gonell, Eliaquin A.; Sáenz, Victor Benito – Professional School Counseling, 2021
This study extends prior work on the college-going efforts of Latino boys and adolescents (Latinos) by examining the extent to which meeting with a school counselor is related to their college-going aspirations and whether they apply to and ultimately matriculate to college. The study utilizes social capital and social reproduction theories to…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Hispanic American Students, Males, Adolescents
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George A. Díaz; Stephen Silverman – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The attitudes physical education students have about the subject influences their level of engagement in and out of class as well as their overall physical activity, which impacts their health and well-being. This study examined the attitudes of Latino high school students toward physical education, specifically to understand how their attitudes…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Physical Education, Student Attitudes
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Brazill, Shihua Chen – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study utilized quantitative research methods using the Montana Office of Public Instruction's Growth and Enhancement of Montana Students (GEMS) data set. This quantitative research is important because it provides insight on the following relationships (1) Is there a statistically significant difference among students from different races on…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students
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Gottfried, Michael; Kirksey, J. Jacob; Fletcher, Tina L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Teachers of color increase school success for students of color. Yet, little attention has been paid to whether school attendance behaviors also increase from same race and ethnicity matches. To address this, our study used administrative data provided by a California high school district for the school years 2014 to 2018. We explored student…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics
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Carey, Roderick L. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
As researchers and school stakeholders determine ways to best support Black and Latino adolescent boys from low-income communities in actualizing their postsecondary future ambitions, more attention is needed on the types of futures these boys imagine and how family members influence this process. Guided by "future orientations" and…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Low Income Groups, Hispanic American Students
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