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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American Peers"”.
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Social Engagement Gaps Between Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) F-1 Visa International Students and American Students in US Universities
… their social engagement experiences with their American peers, and how the absence of such engagement practices frames the international students’ sense of mattering and marginality and overall college experience. The study focused only on F-1 visa international students’ perceptions and …
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An Ecological Examination of Ego and Ethnic Identity Formation Within Second Generation Korean-Americans
… of first and second generation Korean-American ego and ethnic identity formation was explored through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Seventeen self-identified Korean-American young adults, aged twenty-one to twenty-nine, were asked to describe their identity development within …
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Perceptions of African-American students in accredited marriage and family therapy programs: suggestions for improving recruitment and retention
… profession is comprised mostly of European-American clinicians. Although all academic programs accredited by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) are required to demonstrate effort in recruiting African-American students, these efforts do not appear to be …
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Student Satisfaction Perceived Employability Skills, and Student Engagement: Structural Equation Modeling Analyses
… senior Asian international students and their American peers in STEM programs. The National Study of Student Engagement (NSSE) data (2011) was used in this study. Structural equation modeling analyses and invariance tests were employed to estimate different models of student engagement, student …
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Cross-race student-teacher relationships and the transition to kindergarten
… kindergarten students (N = 70; 27 European American, 14 African American, 25 Latino, 4 Asian American) were assigned to a teacher who was depicted as having either warm cross-race (experimental condition) or warm same-race (control condition) relationships. The consequential effects on …
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Connecting Past, Present and Future: How African American Teacher Candidates' School Experiences Inform Their Motivations to Teach, Educational Philosophies, and Identities As Future Teachers
… through deepening our understanding of African American preservice teachers' past and present educational experiences, particularly around race. Thus, guided by critical race theory, critical race methodology, and critical incident narrative inquiry, this qualitative study examined the …
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Development and feasibility testing of a theory-based intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Central Appalachian adolescents
… consume three to four times more SSBs than their American peers. Central Appalachia is a rural, geographically isolated region where attempts to reduce SSBs are challenged by limited resources, skepticism toward health programs/providers, and pervasive cultural norms around SSBs. This dissertation …
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Third-Culture Students: An Exploratory Study of Transition In the First Year of College
… of this research, third-culture students are American children who lived overseas as a result of their parents' professions for two or more years immediately prior to returning to the United States to attend a university. Useem (1993) defines "third-culture" as the new style of life that is …
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Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling: Examining the Academic and Professional Identity Development of Asian American Women Faculty
<p>While Asian American faculty account for almost half of all full-time professors of color in the U.S., Asian American women account for only 3.84 percent of all full-time professors. Researchers speculate that Asian American women are often motivated to choose majors and careers considered …
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Risk or resilience? Exploring the factors that influence the psychosocial functioning of Black immigrant-descended youth
… has important implications for African American adolescents’ psychological and social functioning. However, Black immigrant-descended youth displayed greater psychological vulnerability to perceived discrimination than their African American peers (Seaton, Caldwell, Sellers, & Jackson, …
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The Persistence of African-American Males in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
… to explore, identify, and examine how African-American males were able to persist in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The findings were used to gain insight to how some African-American males persevere in engineering disciplines and others do not. In addition, the study was designed …
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A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students' Construction of Fraction Schemes: Extending the Written Test with Follow-Up Clinical Interviews
… in international assessments when compared with American students (Fan and Zhu, 2004). Consequently, over the last several years, researchers have investigated subject content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of Chinese in-service teachers and pre-service teachers via fraction division …