Where Are the Academically Successful Puerto Rican Students? Five Success Factors of High Achieving Puerto Rican High School Students. JSRI Working Paper No. 61

Autor/inn/en	Antrop-Gonzalez, Rene; Velez, William; Garrett, Tomas
Institution	Michigan State University, Julian Samora Research Institute
Titel	Where Are the Academically Successful Puerto Rican Students? Five Success Factors of High Achieving Puerto Rican High School Students. JSRI Working Paper No. 61
Quelle	(2003), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Educational Research; Academic Achievement; Motivation; Puerto Ricans; High School Students; Performance Factors; High Achievement; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Student Motivation; Learning Motivation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Schulleistung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Puerto Rican; Puerto-Ricaner; High schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Leistungsindikator; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation
Abstract	High achieving Puerto Rican high school students are largely missing not only from urban high schools, but also from the educational research. The purpose of this article, then, is to describe the five success factors that ten low-income urban high school students from this ethnic group attributed to their high academic achievement. These success factors are (1) the acquisition of social capital and academic motivation through religiosity and participation in school and community-based extracurricular activities; (2) student affirmation of Puerto Rican identity; (3) the influence of mothers; (4) the potential for caring teachers to influence high academic achievement; and (5) membership in multicultural/multilingual peer networks. Additionally, these success factors and their implications for Latina/o education are discussed. The participants in this study did not credit most of their success to school-based factors, but instead, they attributed a large part of this success to the home and community-based factors that are examined in this paper. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10