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The Relationship of a Culturally Relevant and Responsive Learning Environment to Achievement Motivation for Native Hawaiian Secondary Students
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Lino, Timothy K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As data depict, Native Hawaiian public school students consistently rank among the lowest of all ethnic groups by nearly every measure of academic engagement and success (Kana'iaupuni & Ishibashi, 2003). As is common with many children of indigenous ancestry, teaching methodologies, pedagogical strategies, and structures of mainstream or…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Secondary School Students, Hawaiians, Academic Achievement
Parent Involvement and Views of School Success: The Role of Parents' Latino and White American Cultural Orientations
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Ryan, Carey S.; Casas, Juan F.; Kelly-Vance, Lisa; Ryalls, Brigette O.; Nero, Collette – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
We examined ethnicity and cultural orientation as predictors of parents' views of and involvement in children's education, using data gathered from the Latino (n = 74) and non-Latino (17 White and 13 ethnic minority) parents of children in an elementary school's dual-language program. Parents completed a questionnaire that assessed Latino and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Role, Educational Practices, Interpersonal Relationship
A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement.
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Thomas, Wayne P.; Collier, Virginia P. – 2002
This longitudinal study examined the education of language minority students in five school districts nationwide. Qualitative data included interviews, school visits, surveys, and source documents. Quantitative data included information from registration centers, language minority student databases, student information systems databases, testing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Context Effect, Cultural Differences
Compartiendo Culturas/Sharing Cultures: A Title VII Two-Way Bilingual Program at Herod Elementary School 1995-96. Research Report on Educational Grants.
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report describes a program that was designed to end the isolation typically experienced by language minority students in traditional bilingual education and to provide language majority students the opportunity to acquire proficiency in a second Language. The program served 4 classes of approximately 22 students each (85 students) in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, English
A Study of Linguistic, Perceptual, and Pedagogical Change in a Short-Term Intensive Language Program.
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Woodman, Karen – 2001
This study investigates linguistic, perceptual, and pedagogical change (LPPC) in a short-term, study abroad English immersion program. It proposes the LPPC Interactive Model of second language acquisition based on Gardner's 1985 socioeducational model and Woods' 1996 beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge (BAK) structure. The framework is applied in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
Challenges in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Elementary Settings with Math Instruction Using Learning Technologies
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Ganesh, Tirupalavanam G.; Middleton, James A. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2006
This research effort reports the findings of an empirical study focusing on the ways in which technological tools are implemented specifically in mathematics education in a Title I school. The purpose was to identify the perspectives and actions of the school's mathematics specialist and the multi-graded (grades 2-3) classroom teacher as they…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary School Mathematics, Educational Technology, Multigraded Classes