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Latino Educational Outcomes and the Campus Climate
Sylvia Hurtado,Luis Ponjuan +1 more
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This paper explored Latino students' perceptions of the campus climate, their sense of belonging in college, their analytical skills and abilities, and their development of a pluralistic orientation necessary to function in a diverse workplace.Abstract:
The authors present a longitudinal study aimed at understanding the factors that affect educational outcomes for Latinos. They explore Latino students’ perceptions of the campus climate, their sense of belonging in college, their analytical skills and abilities, and their development of a pluralistic orientation necessary to function in a diverse workplace. They conclude with a discussion of implications for improving the climate of public, 4-year institutions.read more
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What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between institutional mean scores of NSSE clusters of effective educational practices and institutional graduation rates (N=680 4-year colleges and universities).
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Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate for Latina/o Undergraduates
TL;DR: Yosso, Smith, Miguel Ceja, and Daniel Solorzano as mentioned in this paper explored and understood incidents of racial microaggressions as experienced by Latina/o students at three selective universities.
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Examining Sense of Belonging Among First-Year Undergraduates From Different Racial/Ethnic Groups
Dawn R. Johnson,Matthew Soldner,Jeannie Brown Leonard,Patty Alvarez,Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon,Susan D. Longerbeam +6 more
TL;DR: This paper found that African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian Pacific American students reported a less strong sense of belonging than White/Caucasian students, and the social dimensions of the transition to college and residence hall climate and perceptions of the campus racial climate had strong significant relationships to students' sense of feeling of belonging.
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Extending notions of campus climate and diversity to students' transition to college
TL;DR: In this article, structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to examine the direct and indirect effects of interactions with diverse peers and their sense of belonging in the second year at public universities.
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Leaving Engineering: A Multi‐Year Single Institution Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified a set of factors describing the experiences of students' in a college of engineering that are strong influences on decisions to leave and study how those factors are related to both predictor variables (e.g., high school preparation) and future behaviors.
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The practice of social research
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the construction of Inquiry, the science of inquiry, and the role of data in the design of research.
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A Threat in the Air How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
TL;DR: Research shows that this threat dramatically depresses the standardized test performance of women and African Americans who are in the academic vanguard of their groups, that it causes disidentification with school, and that practices that reduce this threat can reduce these negative effects.
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Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes
TL;DR: Gurin et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between students' experiences with diverse peers in the college or university setting and their educational outcomes and presented a framework for understanding how diversity introduces the relational discontinuities critical to identity construction and its subsequent role in fostering cognitive growth.