Author: Brittany WatkinsPublisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Family Climate, Cultural Identity and Academic Beliefs as Predictors of Academic Success in African American College Students
Author: Brittany WatkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students
Author: Terrell L. StrayhornPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000980146
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Presenting new empirical evidence and employing fresh theoretical perspectives, this book sheds new light on the challenges that Black Students face from the time they apply to college through their lives on campus.The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity.Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for reducing isolation and race-related stress, and as a source of meaning making; students’ college selection and decision process and the expectations it fosters; first-generation Black women’s motivations for attending college; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the role of cultural centers; as well as identity development; and mentoring. The book includes a new research study of African American male undergraduates who identify as gay or bisexual; discusses the impact of student-to-student interactions in intellectual development and leadership building; describes the successful strategies used by historically Black institutions with at-risk men; considers the role of parents in Black male students’ lives, and the applicability of the “millennial” label to the new cohort of African American students.The book offers new insights and concrete recommendations for policies and practices to provide the social and academic support for African American students to persist and fully benefit from their collegiate experience. It will be of value to student affairs personnel and faculty; constitutes a textbook for courses on student populations and their development; and provides a springboard for future research.
The Influences of Assets on the Academic Achievement of African American College Students
Author: Chantel Laran Sawyer LumpkinPublisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Potential Predictors of Academic Achievement for African-American Students at California State University, Fresno
Author: Henry Ifeanyi-Chukwu OputaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Standing Outside on the Inside
Author: Olga M. WelchPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791433416
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Patterns of Academic Success for First Generation, African American College Students
Author: Lolita King-SaulsberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Promotive Influences of Cultural Socialization and Racial Identity on the Academic Achievement of Black Youth
Author: Tenah Kuah Acquaye HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Due to the largely deficit-based literature, more is known about why African American youth fail compared to why they succeed. In contrast, this dissertation is framed around the role of cultural socialization and racial identity in promoting positive academic outcomes for African American youth. In the first paper, I hypothesized that associations between 11th grade parental cultural socialization messages and adolescent academic outcomes (educational aspirations and expectations, educational utility beliefs, and grades) were primarily mediated by the adolescents own racial centrality and private regard. Results indicated that private regard, in particular, acted as a mediator in the association between parental cultural socialization messages and positive academic outcomes. Moreover, the significant association between parental cultural socialization and private regard was only found for adolescents attending schools providing high levels of cultural socialization. In the second paper, I examined associations between parental cultural socialization received by African American youth in 11th grade and three components of their racial identity (centrality, private regard, and public regard) in early adulthood. Findings revealed that parents were more likely to report engaging in cultural socialization messages than youth reported them doing so, and both youth and parent reports of parental cultural socialization practices were found to be more prevalent in families with higher socioeconomic advantage compared to other families. Parents own racial centrality, public regard and racial pride significantly predicted whether parents provide cultural socialization messages to their child. Additionally, parent-reported cultural socialization predicted youths' reports, but only youth reports (and not parental reports) prospectively predicted their early adulthood racial identity components. My third paper examined whether associations of African American students' centrality and private regard during the first year of college with their perceived academic self-efficacy and their likelihood of transferring to a different college were moderated by perceptions of their college's racial climate. Contrary to prior research, I did not find evidence that the association between student racial identity and academic adjustment varied by perceptions of college racial climate. Rather, I found that private regard was associated with a lower likelihood of transferring to a new college, regardless of the college racial climate.
School Matters
Author: Lisa R. JacksonPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Family Life and School Achievement
Author: Reginald ClarkPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226107701
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.
Author: Kenyatta L. Jones