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Jackson-Allen, Jennifer; Christenberry, Nola J. – 1994
The purpose of the study was to identify and compare the learning style preferences of low-achieving and high-achieving young African-American males. Measures of perceptual preferences for 22 learning modalities were obtained from a sample of 50 ninth- and tenth-grade students. Half of the students were randomly selected from a pool identified as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, At Risk Persons, Blacks
Boyd, Rossana R.; Tashakkori, Abbas – 1994
Recent census figures indicate that, compared to all races and ethnic groups, Hispanic students had the lowest rate of graduation from high school. This article explores possible predictors of dropout among Hispanic youth by comparing the Hispanic youth who dropped out of school between the 8th and 10th grade with those who continued. Data for the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Dropout Attitudes