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Roderick L. Carey – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Black and Latinx adolescent boys from economically stratified communities face pervasive societal inequities and, therefore, deserve more responsive school supports to determine and actualize postsecondary pathways. For insights into how such students conceptualize their futures and their school's role in facilitating this process, this…
Descriptors: Males, Disadvantaged Youth, Post High School Guidance, Urban Education
Alvarado, Steven Elías – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study examines the association between college-bound friends and college enrollment using restricted transcript data from the High School Longitudinal Study. Propensity score matching and school fixed effects models suggest that having close college-bound friends is positively associated with enrolling in college. However, Black and Latino…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Peer Influence, College Attendance, High School Students
Academic Attitudes and Achievement in Students of Urban Public Single-Sex and Mixed-Sex High Schools
Else-Quest, Nicole M.; Peterca, Oana – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Publicly funded single-sex schooling (SSS) has proliferated in recent years and is touted as a remedy to gaps in academic attitudes and achievement, particularly for low-income students of color. Research on SSS is rife with limitations, stemming from selective admissions processes, selection effects related to socioeconomic status, a lack of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Academic Achievement
Kim, Paul; Kim, Flora Hisook; Karimi, Arafeh – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
There has been a steady growth of the K-12 student population taking courses online. This study examined reasons for students to choose a public online charter school program and their perceptions of online discussion. A survey was sent to 1,500 students newly enrolled in a statewide public online charter school program. From those who responded,…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses
Learner Performance in Multimedia Learning Arrangements: An Analysis across Instructional Approaches
Eysink, Tessa H. S.; de Jong, Ton; Berthold, Kirsten; Kolloffel, Bas; Opfermann, Maria; Wouters, Pieter – American Educational Research Journal, 2009
In this study, the authors compared four multimedia learning arrangements differing in instructional approach on effectiveness and efficiency for learning: (a) hypermedia learning, (b) observational learning, (c) self-explanation-based learning, and (d) inquiry learning. The approaches all advocate learners' active attitude toward the learning…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Observational Learning, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2009
Although a rich tradition of mainly U.S. and U.K. research focuses on the nature and effects of tracking students within schools, little research has investigated the importance of tracking students in the same or in separate schools. The authors used data from a unique, representative survey in Flanders (Belgium) to examine how students' study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Track System (Education), Homogeneous Grouping
Nasir, Na'ilah Suad; McLaughlin, Milbrey W.; Jones, Amina – American Educational Research Journal, 2009
In this article, the authors explore variation in the meanings of racial identity for African American students in a predominantly African American urban high school. They view racial identity as both related to membership in a racial group and as fluid and reconstructed in the local school setting. They draw on both survey data and observational…
Descriptors: African American Students, Race, Racial Identification, Racial Factors
Xu, Jianzhong – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This aim of this study was to test empirical models of variables posited to predict homework interest at the secondary school level. Student- and class-level predictors of homework interest were analyzed in a survey of 1,046 8th graders from 63 classes and of 849 11th graders from 48 classes. Most of the variance in homework interest occurred at…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Homework, Grade 8, Grade 11
Luyten, Hans; Peschar, Jules; Coe, Robert – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article reports the findings of an analysis into the effect of one year's schooling for 15-year-olds in England on reading performance, reading engagement, and reading activities. The analyses were done on PISA 2000 data by applying a regression discontinuity approach within a multilevel framework. The effect of schooling is estimated as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits, Reading Motivation
Wineburg, Sam; Mosborg, Susan; Porat, Dan; Duncan, Ariel – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
How is historical knowledge transmitted across generations? What is the role of schooling in that transmission? The authors address these questions by reporting on a thirty-month longitudinal study into how home, school, and larger society served as contexts for the development of historical consciousness among adolescents. Fifteen families drawn…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, War, Memory, Foreign Countries
Applebee, Arthur N.; Langer, Judith A.; Nystrand, Martin; Gamoran, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
This study examines the relationships between student literacy performance and discussion-based approaches to the development of understanding in 64 middle and high school English classrooms. A series of hierarchical linear models indicated that discussion-based approaches were significantly related to spring performance, controlling for fall…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Literacy, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods