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Mentoring Relationship Quality Profiles and Their Association with Urban, Low-Income Youth's Academic Outcomes
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Liao, C. Lynn; Sánchez, Bernadette – Youth & Society, 2019
This study aimed to (a) identify mentoring quality profiles based on characteristics of informal mentoring relationships, (b) examine how mentor and youth demographic characteristics were related to the profiles, and (c) investigate whether the profiles were related to youth's academic outcomes. Participants were 411 ninth-grade urban, low-income…
Descriptors: Mentors, Correlation, Urban Youth, Low Income
"Everyone's Voices Are to Be Heard": A Comparison of Struggling and Proficient Readers' Perspectives in One Urban High School
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Learned, Julie E.; Morgan, Mary Jo; Lui, Angela M. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Static reading labels are problematic not only because youths demonstrate varying reading skills and identities across secondary classrooms but also because being labeled as "struggling" can undermine literacy learning. Little research has investigated how "struggling" and "proficient" readers' interactions with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Grade 9
The Struggle to Pass Algebra: Online vs. Face-to-Face Credit Recovery for At-Risk Urban Students
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Heppen, Jessica B.; Sorensen, Nicholas; Allensworth, Elaine; Walters, Kirk; Rickles, Jordan; Taylor, Suzanne Stachel; Michelman, Valerie – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Students who fail algebra are significantly less likely to graduate on time, and algebra failure rates are consistently high in urban districts. Identifying effective credit recovery strategies is critical for getting students back on track. Online courses are now widely used for credit recovery, yet there is no rigorous evidence about the…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Urban Youth, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
The Struggle to Pass Algebra: Online vs. Face-to-Face Credit Recovery for At-Risk Urban Students
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Heppen, Jessica B.; Sorensen, Nicholas; Allensworth, Elaine; Walters, Kirk; Rickles, Jordan; Taylor, Suzanne Stachel; Michelman, Valerie – Grantee Submission, 2017
Students who fail algebra are significantly less likely to graduate on time, and algebra failure rates are consistently high in urban districts. Identifying effective credit recovery strategies is critical for getting students back on track. Online courses are now widely used for credit recovery, yet there is no rigorous evidence about the…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Urban Youth, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Adolescent Future Expectations of Work, Education, Family, and Community: Development of a New Measure
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McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; McWhirter, Benedict T. – Youth & Society, 2008
The development and validation of a measure of adolescent future expectations associated with work, education, family, health, and church/community participation is presented. The 25-item measure was administered to a sample of 389 7th- to 12th-grade urban poor and working-class Chilean students. Results of an exploratory principal axis factor…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis