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Aghekyan, Rosa – Science Education International, 2019
This article describes the development and validation of an instrument called science identities, expectations of success in science, values of science, and environmental attitudes (SIEVEA). The instrument is a convenient online survey that can be used to measure students' SIEVEA. First, 1764 high school students from 11 school districts in New…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Self Concept, School Districts
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Political Issues, Story Telling, Dialogs (Language)
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Coatsworth, J. Douglas; Palen, Lori-Ann; Sharp, Erin Hiley; Ferrer-Wreder, Laura – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
This study examined the relations among activity participation, expressive identity, and wellness in a sample of 115 high school students. Results indicated that most adolescents identify several activities as self-defining. Within-person variation in identity scores across self-selected activities was substantially greater than between-person…
Descriptors: Wellness, High School Students, Adolescents, Self Concept
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Tobin, Kenneth; Elmesky, Rowhea; Carambo, Cristobal; McKnight, Ya-Meer; Beers, Jennifer – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2004
In cultural historical activity theory, the entities that make a system are not conceived as independent but as aspects of mediated relations. Consequently, an individual, a tool, or a community cannot be theorized in an independent manner but must be understood in terms of the historically changing, mediated relations in which they are integral…
Descriptors: Praxis, Urban Schools, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers