An Examination Of The Relationship Among Iraqi High School Students' Science Achievement And Perceptions Of The Value Of Education, Parent Support, And Peer Support In The United States

<p>The objective of this dissertation was to quantitatively study Iraqi students (N=90) who arrived in the U.S.A. in the last 20 years. A non-experimental, descriptive research design was used for this study, which took place in one of three high schools in a large Midwestern suburban school district, during the 2013-2014 academic year. Three factors, including the students' perception of the value of education, the parental support, and the peer support, were examined using the Facilitating Conditions Questionnaire. The three subscales were part of a larger self-administered questionnaire used by McInerney (1997). In addition to the FCQ survey, a student demographic questionnaire was also used in the survey. Quantitative data from the FCQ survey reported that the students' perception of the value of education and their perception of peer support had a significant relationship with science academic achievement, which was measured for two semesters. Moreover, their peer support was the only predictor for science achievement.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Al-Mandwee, Samir F.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Marc A. Rosa

• Academic Achievement
• Adolescents
• Arabic language
• Immigrants
• Middle Eastern
• Science
• Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
• Science and Mathematics Education
• Secondary Education and Teaching

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1110

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-2109