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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"ethnic minority students"”.
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Student Perspectives and Experiences of Interculturalism: A Study of Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Students in an Irish Second Level School
… - level school in relation to the inclusion of ethnic minority students in the school . In the last six years the school has experienced a significant increase in the enrolment of students from the Travelling community and international students from 19 different countries. The primary …
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Teacher Self-Efficacy and Mathematics Achievement Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Students: Evidence from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009
… suggests that for every 1000 U.S. high school students only about a dozen from Racial and Ethnic Minority (REM) groups will obtain a STEM degree and pursue a STEM occupation. These numbers underscore the wealth of untapped talent in our high schools and the pressing need to broaden …
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How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? Exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices.
Students who identify as being from an ethnic minority are under-represented within school geography in England at Key Stage 4 (ages 14 – 16) and Key Stage 5 (ages 16 – 18). At these stages geography is an optional subject and how students view geographical knowledge may influence their GCSE and A …
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Access for Whom? Examining Poor and Ethnic-minority Student Access at the Public Flagships
… and diminishing organizational support, poor and ethnic-minority students are finding it increasingly difficult to attend large public research universities. To investigate the potential relationship that exists between market-oriented practices in higher education and access for poor and …
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The Impact of Ethnic Identity on Student Achievement in China: A Meta Analysis
… concerns about low educational achievement of ethnic minority students in China. Previous studies have explored this area, especially in regard to the relationship between economic backwardness and achievement. However, a new field of study examines ethnic identity being considered as a cause …
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Ethnic Minority Parents' Involvement in Education: Exploring and Understanding Their Experiences
… volume of literature that directly addresses ethnic minority parents' involvement in their children's education and they call upon researchers to fill this gap in the literature. This study is one such positive step with its focus on exploring how ethnic minority parents of secondary school …
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Novel metacognitive problem-solving task for 8- to 11-year-old students
… broader questions with 182, 8- to 11-year-old students, pertaining to cognitive levels in low socioeconomic status, ethnic-minority students, domain-generality/specificity of metacognition and the association between metacognition and executive-functions. The results indicate that low …
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LIMITATIONS IN DIVERSIFYING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS: SEEKING PREDICTORS FOR PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT SUCCESS
… any significant differences between racial and ethnic minority and non-minority groups. Additionally, this study attempted to address gaps in discovering and understanding which program, and cohort variables may have been related to program graduation and ultimate NPTE(R) pass rates. Previous …
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Subjective Culture, Perceived Social Support, and Adaptive Coping: A Multi-Ethnic Study of the Transition to College
This multi-ethnic study supports the role of subjective culture and perceived social support as important social psychological mechanisms in successful coping during the stressful college transition. Longitudinal survey data obtained from 449 students (133 Whites, 124 Asian Americans, 121 African …
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The Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Ethnic Minority Adolescents’ Awareness, Perception, and Utilization of Mental Health Services
… and perception of mental health and services on students of ethnic minority populations. It also explored the impact of the use School based health centers on further utilization of mental health services beyond the School based health center. The purpose of the study was to gain insight on the …
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The Perceived Causes For the Shortage of Minority Teachers
… the perceived causes for the shortage of ethnic minorities in the teaching profession. Undergraduate ethnic minority students at Southwest Missouri State University who were not education majors were surveyed to determine their reasons for not choosing teaching as a profession and their …
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A Study on the Level of Ethnic Representation of High School (9-12) Teachers to the Ethnic Representation of Students Enrolled in Each Comprehensive High School in the Commonwealth of Virginia
The ethnic composition of the United States is diversifying (NCES, 2014), which is altering the types of ethnicities seen in America’s school system. Beginning in the late 1980s and continuing into the two decades following, educators of ethnic minorities (e.g., Black, Hispanic, Asian) began …
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Policy and practice in multicultural and anti-racist education : A case study of a multi-ethnic comprehensive school
… the Education team at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick into the development and implementation of Local Education Authority (L. E. A. ) policies on Multicutural and Anti-Racist Education. It consists of a detailed ethnographic case study of a multi-ethnic, …
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Why do medical students fail? a study of 1st year medical students and the educational context
A third of medical students at Birmingham Medical School fail one or more first year exams. Alarm has been raised about the apparent over-representation of ethnic minority students amongst those who fail. In this case study I ask: 1. Is there a connection between students’ ethnicity and performance …
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Black African Students’ Experiences of Social Work Practice Learning in England: A Critical Race Inquiry
The experiences of black African students (BAS) in the context of social work placements in the UK have received limited attention within academic and practice discourse. This is despite the reported evidence of growth in numbers of students of black African origin enrolling onto social work …
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Student names as predictors of prejudice in school teachers: Do students names associated with Islam influence teacher willingness to help students in the classroom?
… can generate a performance decrease in minority students (Chatraw et al., 2008). Prejudice, or negative attitudes towards an outgroup (Dovidio et al., 2004), can lead to social distance between ingroup and outgroup members. Social distance is the degree of closeness or separation that …
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The Rise of Alternative Teaching Certification in Relation to Students Who Are Impoverished, Ethnic Minorities and Change in Teacher Salary in United States Public Schools
… statistical correlation with the proportions of students who were impoverished in each state. On the other hand, the numbers of individuals earning alternative teaching certification had a stronger statistical correlation with the proportions of ethnic minority students in each state. Moreover, …
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The Rise of Alternative Teaching Certification in Relation to Students Who Are Impoverished, Ethnic Minorities and Change in Teacher Salary in United States Public Schools
… statistical correlation with the proportions of students who were impoverished in each state. On the other hand, the numbers of individuals earning alternative teaching certification had a stronger statistical correlation with the proportions of ethnic minority students in each state. Moreover, …
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Systemic Racism: Perceptions, Stress, and Coping among African American College Students
… represents a serious and persistent problem for ethnic minority students. Although there has been a plethora of research examining retention rates, most have focused on difficulty paying for college and financial strain. Importantly, past studies suggest that minority stress in the form of …
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