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Chun, Heejung; Marin, Merranda Romero; Schwartz, Jonathan P.; Pham, Andy; Castro-Olivo, Sara M. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Previous studies of college entrance and graduation have identified strong ethnic identity, cultural congruity, and low acculturative stress as protective factors for academic persistence among Latina/o college students. However, lacking in the literature is a more differentiated and complete understanding of the complex relationships between…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Success, Cultural Influences, Social Influences
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Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Pesman, Haki – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The authors explored how gender and socioeconomic status (SES) predicted physics achievement as mediated by metacognition and physics self-efficacy. Data were collected from 338 high school students. The model designed for exploring how gender and SES-related differences in physics achievement were explained through metacognition and physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status