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Ritu Sampige; Daijiazi Tang; Leslie Frankel; Allison Master – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
It is critically important to understand the environmental contexts and demographic factors that put families at greater risk of COVID-related parenting stress. The current study examined a new scale measuring situational stress caused by concern about family safety and stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how this stress differed…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Parent Attitudes, Family Environment, COVID-19
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Watts, Gavin W.; Garfield, Theresa A.; Davis, Mariya T. – College Teaching, 2023
The experiences of first-generation college students (FGCS) can guide the development of effective practices for supporting and retaining these students. Open-ended interviews with 10 FGCS produced themes related to challenges and strategies for success. Applied thematic analysis identified barriers in school, home, and work settings, including a…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Educational Strategies, Success, Barriers
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Benítez-Barrera, Carlos; Reiss, Lina; Majid, Marjan; Chau, Trisha; Wilson, Johanna; Rico, Erika Figueroa; Bunta, Ferenc; Raphael, Robert M.; de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Best practices recommend promoting the use of the home language and allowing caregivers to choose the language(s) that they want to use with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). We examined whether Spanish-speaking caregivers of children who are DHH receive professional recommendations on oral bilingualism that follow best…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Bilingualism, Oral Language
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Robinson, Brandon Andrew – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
Minority stress is a cause of health challenges for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth experiencing homelessness. However, in over-focusing on family rejection, the research on LGBTQ youth homelessness often misses how minority stress itself can shape the youth's perceived pathways into and experiences of homelessness. A…
Descriptors: Homeless People, LGBTQ People, Stress Variables, Minority Groups
Cathy June Follmer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Military-connected students experience behavioral, emotional, and academic concerns during their parents' deployments to other states or countries for training or defense of the United States of America. These military deployment cycles affect students with disabilities who struggle to learn at the same rate as their peers. The problem addressed…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Military Service, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Cataldo, Raquel; Alanís, Iliana – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Research supports the importance of developing early literacy skills through culturally relevant activities and school/home partnerships as essential ingredients in high quality early learning environments (Bentley & Souto-Manning, 2019; Gay, 2000). Educators, however, frequently dismiss the significance of honoring a child's first language,…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Cultural Influences, Emergent Literacy, Culturally Relevant Education
Stacie Summers – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this convergent parallel mixed method research design was to investigate family literacy activities reported by parents of Head Start children. In addition, the study explored the use of Family Literacy Book Bags by involving parents in shared reading and home-based literacy activities. Parents of Head Start children at a center in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Family Literacy, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
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Garcia, Nichole M.; Delgado Bernal, Dolores – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Almost two decades after Delgado Bernal's theorization of pedagogies of the home, this article examines pedagogies of the home of four Chicana/o college-educated families to understand the role of parent engagement not only in the college choice processes but also in college completion and graduate school enrollment. Using Chicana feminisms to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Hispanic American Students, College Choice, Feminism
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Errisuriz, Vanessa L.; Villatoro, Alice P.; McDaniel, Marisol D. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
The transition to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic is feared to have widened the achievement gap previously experienced by students from low socioeconomic and minority backgrounds. We utilized data from the "COVID-19 Texas College Student Experiences Survey" to assess the impact of the pandemic on Latinx students' (n = 231)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Hispanic American Students, Student Experience
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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
The year 2020 will forever be known as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic which has affected the entire population in one way or another. What began in January 2020 still has the world population firmly in its grip a year later. The students' responses, in their own words, to changes in living, daily `routines, and health fears can be seen in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Undergraduate Students
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Preuss, Michael D.; Sosa, Eric M.; Rodin, Jason C.; Dorsett, Christine R.; Ramos, Jorje D.; Burleson, Chenoa R. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educate nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic/Latinx students who attend college. Yet little is known about the student populations they serve. Findings from two NSF-funded surveys completed with students at 14 HSIs in Texas and New Mexico in 2018 and four HSIs in TX in 2019 are presented. The combined sample was…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Characteristics
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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced many changes in the lives of our students and families. In this article, the responses of students in criminal justice classes at a Hispanic serving institution in south Texas were collected and synthesized. The 252 responses were divided into seven frequently observed and repeated themes: jobs and job related,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Student Attitudes
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Prochnow, Tyler; Umstattd Meyer, M. Renée; Johnson, Cassandra; Delgado, Haley; Gómez, Luis; Sharkey, Joseph – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: Physical activity (PA) is linked to many health benefits. However, many children and adults do not meet PA recommendations. Specifically, Mexican-heritage (MH) families are less physically active and at greater risk for obesity and related co-morbidities than the general population. Culturally-tailored programs are needed to support MH…
Descriptors: Program Development, Physical Activities, Mexican Americans, Fathers
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Heredia, Roberto; Cieslicka, Anna – Multicultural Education Review, 2020
In this paper, we investigate the effect that parents' language use (English, Spanish-English or Spanish) had on self-perceived proficiency, frequency of use, language anxiety, code-switching and cultural orientation of 206 Spanish-English bilinguals and multilinguals who were students in Texas where there is a strong presence of Spanish, the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Parent Child Relationship, English, Spanish
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Shen, Yishan; Seo, Eunjin; Walt, Dorothy Clare; Kim, Su Yeong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study focused on early adolescents' stress of language brokering and examined the moderating role of family cumulative risk in the relation of language brokering to adjustment problems. Data came from self-reports of 604 low-income Mexican American adolescent language brokers (54% female; X[bar] [subscript age]= 12.4; SD = 0.97; 75% born in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Mexican Americans, Early Adolescents, Low Income Groups
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