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Oluwateniola Kupolati; Mojisola Shodipe – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This study examines attitudes to language use and maintenance among Yorùbá-English bilinguals in the United States. Using the direct approach in language attitude research, it specifically interrogates attitudes toward using the heritage language (HL) in public domains and maintenance among subsequent generations. It also jointly examines the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Maintenance, African Languages
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Francilia K. Brito-Silva; Wanyi Wang; Carolyn E. Moore; Kathleen E. Davis – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To investigate what factors are associated with food insecurity (FI) among freshman students and identify potential solutions. Participants: 73 freshman students. Methods: Cross-sectional, Internet survey-based study. Fisher's Exact tests examined factors associated with food security (FS); Cohen's Kappa assessed the agreement between…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Influences, College Freshmen
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Crystal Lynn Gerrard; Rey – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2024
This article provides a counterstory to damaging, dominant narratives concerning migrant experiences and border crossings. Through counter-storytelling, I share Rey's lived experiences as a transfronterizx (transborder) student who crossed the United States--Mexico border daily to attend school and eventually, participate in school music. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Migrant Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Banks, Patricia A. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2023
While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, African American Students, Public Schools, Racism
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Mario Reyna – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
This article discusses the nationwide shortage of sports officials, best practices and solutions, and how current physical educators, coaches and SHAPE America members in general can help address the shortage and educate youths on the value of sportsmanship.
Descriptors: Athletics, Professional Personnel, Barriers, Aggression
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Skinner, Nadine Ann; Bromley, Patricia – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
Formal schooling in the U.S. has a long and violent history towards Indigenous peoples, today morphing into exclusion and erasure. Using a novel longitudinal dataset of U.S. textbooks (n = 193) from California and Texas, published from 1850 to 2019, we seek to shine light on the issue through a comprehensive analysis of depictions of Indigenous…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, History Instruction, United States History
Daugherty, Lindsay; Mendoza-Graf, Alexandra; Gehlhaus, Diana; Miller, Trey; Gerber, Russell – Grantee Submission, 2021
Until recently, many colleges provided academic support to students by requiring students to complete one or more developmental education courses in a subject area before they could enroll in college-level coursework. Now colleges have been experimenting with new approaches that accelerate students into college courses, including corequisite…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Two Year College Students, Required Courses, College English
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Román, Diego; Pastor, Alberto; Basaraba, Deni – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study examined the presence of internal linguistic discrimination--i.e., the negative reaction of Spanish speakers towards the varieties of Spanish spoken by heritage speakers--among bilingual teachers in a school district in Texas. To this end, we conducted a study that analyzed the responses of 84 bilingual teachers to audio utterances…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Language Variation
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Wachsmuth, Lucas P.; Runyon, Christopher R.; Drake, John M.; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Undergraduate life science majors are reputed to have negative emotions toward mathematics, yet little empirical evidence supports this. We sought to compare emotions of majors in the life sciences versus other natural sciences and math. We adapted the Attitudes toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory to create an Attitudes toward the Subject of…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, Student Attitudes
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Fang, Haolei; Gagne, Jeffrey Robert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Employing a multi-method approach, we investigated observed and parent-rated child behavioral inhibition (BI) and maternal reports of their own negative affectivity (NA) as predictors of young children's internalizing problems. Participants were 201 children who were siblings between 2.5 and 5.5 years of age (mean = 3.86, standard deviation =…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Inhibition, Child Behavior, Mothers
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Klisch, Yvonne; Bowling, Kristi G.; Miller, Leslie M.; Ramos, Miguel A. – Journal of Drug Education, 2013
Two online science education games, in which players learn about the risks of prescription drug abuse in the context of investigating crimes, were evaluated to determine shifts of prescription drug abuse attitudes attributable to game exposure. High school students from grades 11 and 12 (n = 179) were assigned to one of the games and participated…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Science Education, Drug Abuse, Adolescent Attitudes
Riley McKee, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Floating describes the act of staff moving from one unit to another based on the needs of the patients in a hospital. Many staff who float to different units express negative feelings, including anxiety and lack in self-efficacy. However, floating is both an economical and efficient method to use staff across the hospital, especially with current…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Health Personnel, Anxiety, Self Efficacy
Belcher, Kenneth L., II – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The cost of the American healthcare system has escalated to the point that the United States spends more per patient than any other country. Based on the cost controls and increase in efficiency seen in other industries, many agree that information technology solutions should be adopted by the American healthcare industry. However, healthcare…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Barriers, Health Services, Information Technology
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Hempel, Lynn M.; Dowling, Julie A.; Boardman, Jason D.; Ellison, Christopher G. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
This study examines local contextual conditions that influence opposition to bilingual education among non-Hispanic Whites, net of individual-level characteristics. Data from the Texas Poll (N = 615) are used in conjunction with U.S. Census data to test five competing hypotheses using binomial and multinomial logistic regression models. Our…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Minority Groups, Bilingual Education, Whites
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Martinez, Melissa Ann – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2012
Utilizing the notion of community cultural wealth, this study focuses on the various forms of capital that Mexican American students from the South Texas Border draw upon within their community to navigate the college choice process. Findings indicate that neighbors, church members, and in one case, a physician, served as sources of social…
Descriptors: Ethnic Stereotypes, Mexican Americans, College Choice, Hispanic American Students
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