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Rupa Sinha-Dutta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore freshmen community college students' lived experiences as 10th-grade students in the 2020-2021 school year during online math learning. Positive experiences in math learning increase math success. Negative experiences in math learning decrease math success, leading to avoidance of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 10, Community College Students, Online Courses
Michael Alan Medina – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The demographics of the U.S. are changing. By 2050, projections suggest that non-Hispanic Whites will no longer make up the majority of the population, and students of color should outnumber White students in schools by 2025. It is thus timely and necessary to examine youth's ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development--the meaning individuals…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Self Concept, Racial Identification, Friendship
Shimp, Timothy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This descriptive case study is a qualitative investigation into the perceptions of tenth grade students who experienced a ninth-grade transitional model high school academy within a large PreK-12 suburban school district. Specifically, this study provided the opportunity to examine the success of one Ninth Grade Academy, identify areas of concern…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Models, Student Attitudes
Elizabeth T. Eagan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Purpose - This investigation determined how students with Learning Disabilities (LD) navigate the difficult transition from grade 8 to grade 9 compared to their non-disabled peers. This longitudinal study assessed group and grade differences on three observable, measurable factors found to be important for school success in grades 7 through 10.…
Descriptors: Success, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Student Adjustment
Speer, Emily M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the academic adjustment of gifted and non-gifted ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade students placed in accelerated mathematics courses. Using Van Eman's research, the investigation of the social and emotional effects of mathematics acceleration through academic adjustment included the following positive indicators…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Academically Gifted, Grade 9, Grade 10
Liu, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Educational aspiration is one of the most important factors influencing an individual's educational attainment. Although students' aspirations are changeable and the stability of their aspirations is important for their goal reaching, previous studies are rather limited in their ability to capture aspiration changes due to their incomplete…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Enrollment, Educational Attainment, Data Analysis