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Transmitting Success: Comprehensive Peer Mentoring for At-Risk Students in Developmental Math
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Morales, Erik E.; Ambrose-Roman, Sarah; Perez-Maldonado, Rosa – Innovative Higher Education, 2016
This study presents and assesses a developmental math focused peer mentoring program at a public urban university. Over three semesters 45 mentees participated in the program. Results include substantive increases in developmental pass rates as well as increases in self-efficacy and social integration. Other noteworthy findings include the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Teaching, Public Colleges, Urban Schools
Exceptional Female Students of Color: Academic Resilience and Gender in Higher Education
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Morales, Erik E. – Innovative Higher Education, 2008
In researching the exceptional academic performance of 31 female and 19 male low socioeconomic college students of color, three distinctly female approaches to exceptional achievement arose from the data. These included the inordinate degree of familial resistance faced by the females and their approaches to that resistance, the value and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education
A Contextual Understanding of the Process of Educational Resilience: High Achieving Dominican American Students and the "Resilience Cycle."
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Morales, Erik E. – Innovative Higher Education, 2000
Explores the concept of the five-step "resilience cycle" in the lives of two of five Dominican American students attending New York University. All five students were high achieving but with a low socioeconomic background. Considers the role of adaptive, complementary, and situational protective factors in producing academic resilience…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dominicans, Family Characteristics, High Achievement