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Lumina Foundation, 2021
Differences by race and ethnicity exist in student borrowing trends. Statistics about debt loads, repayment trends, default rates, and forgiveness opportunities routinely appear in research papers, policy briefs, talking points, and news reports. But real progress over time depends on setting up the right conversation and narrative. So far, too…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Ethnicity, Debt (Financial), African American Students
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Chan, Jason – New Directions for Student Services, 2017
Higher education research increasingly acknowledges the multiple identities and communities within the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) student population. This chapter explores the complex and multifaceted aspects of APIDA students and offers key considerations for student affairs practitioners working with today's APIDA student…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Pacific Islanders, Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services
Nanji, Michelle Mojgan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Muslim population in the United States has faced numerous challenges in the aftermath of September 11th, including increased negative portrayal of Muslims in the media. While there is increased understanding that the social environment in the US has become more Islamophobic, there is little research in applied psychology fields to understand…
Descriptors: Muslims, Asian Americans, Career Development, Career Choice
Grinnell, Frederick; Dalley, Simon; Reisch, Joan – Online Submission, 2022
In this paper, we report ethnicity trends in student participation and experience in high school science and engineering fair (SEFs). SEF participation showed significant ethnic diversity. For survey students, the approximate distribution was Asian-32%; Black-11%; Hispanic-20%; White-33%; Other-3%. Comparing the SEF level at which students…
Descriptors: Science Fairs, High School Students, Student Participation, Ethnicity
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Quebles, Irina; Solomon, Olga; Smith, Kathryn A.; Rao, Sowmya R.; Lu, Frances; Allen, Colleen; Anaya, Grace; Yin, Larry – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
We examined racial and ethnic differences in the prevalence of behavioral problems measured by the Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL), sleep disturbances measured by the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ), and medication use among children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). We analyzed data from the Autism Treatment Network (ATN) dataset…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Incidence, Behavior Problems
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Curran, F. Chris; Kitchin, James – Science Education, 2019
Recent work examining science test performance in the earliest grades of school has demonstrated that science test score gaps by race/ethnicity are apparent as early as kindergarten and that, in a number of cases, the racial/ethnic test score gaps in science are significantly larger than the corresponding gaps in reading or mathematics. This study…
Descriptors: Race, Ethnicity, Scores, Science Instruction
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Suárez, Mario I.; Dabney, Alan R.; Waxman, Hersh C.; Scott, Timothy P.; Bentz, Adrienne O. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The present study explores demographics, pre-university characteristics and multi-year (2003-2013) tracking of a census of 53,077 students who initially declared a STEM major upon entering a research university in the United States Southwest and seeks to predict graduation with a STEM and non-STEM degree. Guided by QuantCrit theory, we use…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Majors (Students), College Students
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Ngo, Bic; Chandara, Diana – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Community-based youth theater programs afford youth opportunities to explore and "author" new identities by "performing writing." Yet, we know much less about the ways in which immigrant youth are exploring struggles and changes within their families and ethnic community. We particularly lack research about…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Immigrants, Hmong People, Self Concept
Cerna, Rebeca; Stern, Alexis; Austin, Greg; Betz, Jenny; Zhang, Gary; Hashmi, Shazia – WestEd, 2021
To better understand the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation, this report presents data drawn from the California Healthy Kids Survey (2017-2019) regarding high school students' social and emotional well-being, school experiences, engagement, and their perceptions of the supports they received at school. With…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, High School Students, Well Being, Student Experience
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Park, Julie J.; Kim, Young K.; Salazar, Cinthya; Hayes, Shannon – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Previous studies have documented student-faculty interaction in STEM, but fewer studies have specifically studied negative forms of interaction such as discrimination from faculty. Using a sample of 562 STEM undergraduates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, we use hierarchical generalized linear modeling to investigate various…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, STEM Education, Race, Ethnicity
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Chen, Xiaochen; Graham, Sandra – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
Asian American students often report lower self-esteem than their peers from other racial groups even though they are doing better academically. The current study attempted to explore this paradox from an attributional perspective. Academic achievement, self-esteem and attributions for academic failures (i.e., low ability and low effort) were…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, African American Students, White Students, Hispanic American Students
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Maffini, Cara S.; Kim-Ju, Greg M. – Youth & Society, 2018
This study examined ethnicity and ethnic identity (EI) as moderators in the relationship between self-efficacy (SE) and fighting and bullying. We sampled 315 Asian American and Latino early adolescents residing in an urban community. Results demonstrated that Latinos and male participants were more likely to engage in fighting and bullying than…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnicity, Bullying, Violence
Kim, Yoolee Choe – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Asian Americans are a significant and growing population in U.S. higher education, yet their positionality within the U.S. racial landscape has often been unclear. Acknowledged as neither Black nor White, Asian Americans have occupied an often marginalized yet nonetheless racialized position, which has disguised much of their lived experience as…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, College Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
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Perez, Sarah – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
In Fall 2019 I taught the course "Race and Gender: The Politics of Intersection" and spent the semester to discussing how intersectionality functioned within the Asian Pacific American (APA) communities in the United States and in the larger global context. In the course, we discussed various aspects of intersectionality including how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Political Science, Race, Gender Differences
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Kim, Sung won; Cho, Hyunsun; Song, Minji – Educational Review, 2019
A few popular explanations attempt to argue for a weaker relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), parental involvement (PI), and achievement among Asian Americans compared to their white counterparts: Asian American students' Confucian culture, strong motivation for upward mobility as immigrants, unique forms of parental involvement…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Cultural Influences
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