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Dana Adler – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Parents, students, administrators and teachers all make a choice to be a part of a charter school. Since 1991 when the first charter school in the United States opened, charter schools have grown. As of 2018 over 3.3 million students across the United States attend charter schools and the projection for growth continues. In spite of making up the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Hawaiians, Charter Schools, Females
Souza, Cheri Y. H. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Within the United States, the model minority myth has contributed to empirically unsubstantiated misconceptions about Asian American college students. Although there is considerable research on college student adjustment and its role in persistence, literature focusing on the Asian American experience is lacking. Furthermore, the experience of…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Disproportionate Representation, White Students, Asian American Students
DeLaRosby, Hal R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The findings of this hermeneutical phenomenological study revealed an understanding of the sense of belonging fostered Asian American -- Pacific Islander (AAPI) students from Hawai'i persisting at a predominantly White institution (PWIs). Discoveries investigated culled from individual interviews conducted with 10 AAPI students from Hawai?i…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Pacific Americans, College Students, Academic Persistence
Winslow, Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental descriptive study was to explore whether there has been a significant decrease in attendance rates or a significant decrease in achievement as evidenced by assessment scores for students in the K-12 public school system after the COVID-19 compulsory distance learning period for the Asian…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Scores, COVID-19, Pandemics
Vila, Leighton Kenji – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study utilizes multigroup path analysis to explore the factors that contribute to Filipino student success at the University of Hawaii (UH). Filipinos are the largest non-white and Asian ethnic group in the State of Hawaii, yet Filipinos have been historically underrepresented at UH's four-year campuses, and overrepresented at the community…
Descriptors: Filipino Americans, College Students, Success, Culturally Relevant Education
Soong, Shelley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Three studies were conducted for this dissertation around the broader topic of improving undergraduate health research training programs for Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples (NHOPP), and increasing the likelihood of NHOPP pursuing health science research careers. The first study systematically examined existing published literature on…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Disproportionate Representation