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Exploring The Relationship Between Stereotype Threat, Racial Centrality, Grit, And Academic Achievement And Retention In African American Male First Generation College Students, Brittany Camille Lee
Exploring The Relationship Between Stereotype Threat, Racial Centrality, Grit, And Academic Achievement And Retention In African American Male First Generation College Students, Brittany Camille Lee
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The educational and achievement gap for African American males has been widely researched and discussed prior to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Many of these male college students have suffered at the hands of stereotype threat: a self-evaluative risk, influenced by widely held prejudices of the dominant majority cultural group that have deleterious effects. Although stereotype threat, along with other variables relevant to achievement, have been widely researched, few studies have examined positive factors that have the potential to buffer the relationship that exists between stereotype threat and academic achievement. This study explored the relationship between dimensions of …
Exploration Of Student Online Learning Behavior And Academic Achievement, Ying Fang
Exploration Of Student Online Learning Behavior And Academic Achievement, Ying Fang
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Students’ online persistence has typically been studied at the macro-level (e.g., completion of an online course, number of academic terms completed, etc.), and was investigated as a dependent variable with predicting variables such as motivation, engagement, economical support, etc. This study examines students’ persistence in an online adaptive learning environment called ALEKS, and the association between students’ academic achievement and persistence. With archived data that included students’ online math learning log and standardized tests scores, we first explored students’ learning behavior patterns with regard to how persistent they were while learning with ALEKS. Three variables indicating three levels of persistence …