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INFLUENCES ON HISPANIC-AMERICAN ACADEMIC FACTORS: A SELF-DETERMINED AND SYSTEMS ORIENTED ISSUE
(2015-05-08)
Recent findings reveal that Hispanic-American high school students graduate at a rate 30% lower than Caucasian students. This study examined the influence of Hispanic cultural values, acculturation and familial factors on ...
Interest and Intention in STEM fields: Applying Latent Growth Modeling
(2018-05-11)
Guided by the proposed paths among interest, intention, and choice variables in Social Cognitive Career Theory (Lent, Brown, Hackett, 1994), the current study utilized latent growth modeling to investigate changes in ...
Standing in the Gap: Research that Informs Strategies for Motivating and Retaining Rural High School Students
(2013)
Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author's rural research on secondary students' school-related ...
AUTONOMY SUPPORT, COMPETENCE SUPPORT, AND RELATIONAL SUPPORT CAN FOSTER SELF-EFFICACY FOR SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN URBAN SCHOOLS
(2014)
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between school conditions (namely: autonomy support, competence support, and relational support) and student self-efficacy for self-regulated learning ...