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Pathways to Opportunity: Insights into Workforce Entry from a Rural Research Network
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Elise Swanson – Grantee Submission, 2024
The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) seeks to increase opportunity for rural students through the power of actionable data and evidence. NCRERN partners with networks of rural school districts to generate and evaluate strategies for improving student outcomes. For more background on NCRERN's work, see the Introduction…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, School Districts, Career Readiness
Pathways to Opportunity: Insights into College Access from a Rural Research Network
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Elise Swanson – Grantee Submission, 2024
The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) seeks to increase opportunity for rural students through the power of actionable data and evidence. NCRERN partners with networks of rural school districts to generate and evaluate strategies for improving student outcomes. For more information about NCRERN's work, see the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, School Districts, Career Readiness
Unveiling the Hidden Assets That First-Generation Students Bring to College
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Minicozzi, Lisa; Roda, Allison – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2020
The purpose of this research was to discover what specific attitudes and behaviors first year students believed were necessary to transition to college by employing a qualitative lens. We chose to explore how students describe building their identities as college students, responding to the cultural shifts between high school and college, and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Adjustment, Minority Group Students, Public Colleges
Can Student Engagement Serve as a Motivational Resource for Academic Coping, Persistence, and Learning during Late Elementary and Early Middle School?
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Skinner, Ellen A.; Pitzer, Jennifer R.; Steele, Joel S. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
How children and youth deal with academic challenges and setbacks can make a material difference to their learning and school success. Hence, it is important to investigate the factors that allow students to cope constructively. A process model focused on students' motivational resources was used to frame a study examining whether engagement in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, Grade 3, Grade 4
Understanding the Acculturation Experience of Chinese Adolescent Students: Sociocultural Adaptation Strategies and a Positive Bicultural and Bilingual Identity
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Tong, Virginia M. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2014
The acculturation of Chinese immigrant high school students was examined as it relates to students' level of interaction with teachers and peers and participation in American school activities. Findings from a regression analysis revealed five variables (sociocultural adaptation strategies) that facilitate students' adjustment process:…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, High School Students, School Activities
Coping as Part of Motivational Resilience in School: A Multidimensional Measure of Families, Allocations, and Profiles of Academic Coping
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Skinner, Ellen; Pitzer, Jennifer; Steele, Joel – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
A study was designed to examine a multidimensional measure of children's coping in the academic domain as part of a larger model of motivational resilience. Using items tapping multiple ways of dealing with academic problems, including five adaptive ways (strategizing, help-seeking, comfort-seeking, self-encouragement, and commitment) and six…
Descriptors: Coping, Resilience (Psychology), Student Motivation, Student Adjustment