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McClain, Melissa R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Rural, economically disadvantaged students in Southern Appalachia experienced numerous situations that could negatively affect them socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically. Educators who routinely worked with rural, economically disadvantaged students should understand the difficulties these students experienced, as well as employ…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Boysen-Taylor, Rebekka – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study combined critical youth participatory research and ethnographic methods to investigate rural youth relationships to race and racism, which are currently undertheorized. The research question guiding this inquiry was: How do rural youth describe the salience of race and racism in the United States (U.S.) for themselves…
Descriptors: High School Students, Youth, Majority Attitudes, Population Groups
Liu, Jingwei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Through multiple educational reforms, China has pursued developing well-rounded learners with solid content knowledge, higher-order thinking skills, and the ability to transfer knowledge to real-world problem spaces. The imbalance of learning resources between urban and rural China, however, has caused disadvantages for learners in rural China to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Youth, Public Schools
Kellie J. L. Seals – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Interest is a unique internal motivator of learning that can be sustained and developed by outside influences. A challenge in rural areas is instilling interest in young adults to pursue careers local industries demand in order to mitigate rural out-migration. The purpose of this mixed methods intervention study was to determine if and explain how…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Experiential Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Vocational Interests
Oliver, Cynthia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the number of rural, first-generation college students continue to rise, there was a gap in the literature regarding post-secondary enrollment and the self-efficacy of these students who participated in asynchronous credit recovery in high school to complete a high school diploma. In this qualitative, narrative study, I examined how completion…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Social Emotional Learning
Zoe A. Cassady – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined the self-efficacy and identity beliefs about literacy of 10 rural adolescent Title I Reading students. Sociocultural theory influenced by knowledge of self, culture, identity, and self-efficacy served as the theoretical framework for the study. The research employed a qualitative case study design using a photo-elicitation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Instruction, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Mariko Yoshisato Cavey – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Aspirations predict students' trajectories, and knowledge of how youth develop and achieve goals is crucial to supporting success. However, rural students may encounter constraining conditions that can curtail their aspirations, and students of color often face institutional barriers that impact their postsecondary pathways. Guided by theories…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mexicans, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students
Kinsinger, Katherine Stahl – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The literature presents conflicting views of the rural experience, with one perspective chronicling the deficits associated with growing up rural while the other reveals advantages to small-town community and schooling influences. Adding to the complexities of the rural narrative are the recent demographic and social changes in rural…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Academic Persistence, Family Influence, Student Experience
Madison Marilyn Dell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Empirical evidence unambiguously asserts that a college education provides robust benefits to both individuals and societies. However, disparities in college enrollment and completion persist and limit opportunities for marginalized students to enjoy the advantages a college education affords, impeding progress toward equitable outcomes for all.…
Descriptors: College Students, College Bound Students, Disadvantaged, Power Structure
Holbrook, Sandy – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The need for developmental education is ever present in higher education as more students annually enter college underprepared for entry level college coursework. Underpreparedness is a pervasive concern in higher education. Community colleges in particular are the primary means of shepherding developmental education. Academic underpreparedness is…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Rural Youth, Rural Schools
Boydstun, Kelli Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how the GEAR-Up college readiness program influenced the postsecondary decisions of Hispanic students who participated in the GEAR-Up program for the recommended six-year period in a rural school district in Texas. It was not known how long-term participation in the GEAR-Up program at a rural school…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Youth, Hispanic American Students, Program Effectiveness
Neely, Drustella – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of zero tolerance discipline in schools in the Mississippi Delta created considerable obstacles for African American students to excel, achieve, and graduate. This study used a qualitative phenomenological method to examine and assess how the application of the 1994 zero-tolerance disciplinary policies in Mississippi Delta public schools…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline
Beasley, Sarah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine college pathways or college access and success of rural, first-generation students. Most research on college pathways for low- and moderate-income students focuses on those students as a whole or on urban low-socioeconomic status (SES) students. (Caution is in order when generalizing the experiences of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Youth, Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration
Peterson, Nels Milan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this mixed method study was to determine the positional leadership of North Dakota 4-H and FFA leadership alumni. This study determined the influence of youth development programs on statewide leadership alumni (those who served from 1970 to 2000) and community leadership roles as adults. Former North Dakota 4-H Ambassador Alumni…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Statistical Analysis, Skill Development, Leadership
Lambert, Dana Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Education is an important variable in forming student aspirations in that it serves to help students become more knowledgeable about the world, more sensitive and understanding of their relationship to it, and more eager to contribute to the community. The purpose of this visual ethnography study was to explore how students in one rural ninth…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Small Businesses, Ethnography, Academic Aspiration
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