Development and Initial Validation of a Measure of Academic Behaviors Associated With College and Career Readiness

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Lombardi ◽  
Mary Seburn ◽  
David Conley
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Behaviors ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
College And Career

In this cross-validation study, the authors examined the psychometric properties of a measure of academic behaviors associated with college and career readiness intended for high school students. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a randomly selected portion of the sample ( n = 413) and resulted in four reliable factors: Goal-driven Behaviors, Persistence, Study Skills, and Self-Monitoring. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with the remaining sample ( n = 610). Goodness-of-fit indices indicated acceptable model fit. Follow-up analyses revealed significant differences in factor scores among 9th grade students according to gender and race but no significant differences between students in grades 10 through 12, showing the measure functions similarly across students for the most part and particularly for students approaching graduation. Implications for use as a value-added assessment in secondary environments are discussed.

scholarly journals ¡Adelante! A Community Asset Mapping Approach to Increase College and Career Readiness for Rural Latinx High School Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X1880027
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Arriero ◽  
Dana Griffin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
Asset Mapping ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Mapping Approach

Community asset mapping is an approach that school counselors can use to locate resources to meet the needs of families, schools, and communities. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how school counselors might use community asset mapping to address the needs of their population(s), illustrated with an example of implementation in a rural high school. The authors address implications for school counselor practice.

Adding It Up: How the Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative Impacted Developmental Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine G. Mokher ◽  
Daniel M. Leeds ◽  
Julie C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Developmental Education ◽  
College Readiness ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Florida College

The Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative (FCCRI) was a statewide policy requiring college readiness testing and participation in college readiness courses for high school students. We used regression discontinuity to compare outcomes for students scoring just above and below test score cutoffs for assignment to FCCRI. We also examined impacts for students from a wider range of academic performance by using a before-after regression analysis to compare outcomes for targeted students before and after their schools implemented the FCCRI. The FCCRI increased the likelihood of enrolling in nondevelopmental courses for some targeted students, although results differ by academic performance. However, smaller differences in the likelihood of passing nondevelopmental courses suggest that some students were not prepared for these courses.

Flipping Our Urban Charter ELA Classes

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-159
Author(s):  
Samantha Shaffner ◽  
Anne M. Hyland
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Barriers ◽  
Academic Challenges ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Academic Failures

The Flipped Mastery Model (Bergmann & Sams, 2012) makes English language arts (ELA) content accessible to students, no matter the learning environment (individual vs. community). At our urban charter high school, students are often times faced with the academic challenges connected to living in high poverty homes. Having more than one dispenser of information has proven to be an effective solution to the educational barriers that occur as a result of a student having poor attendance that may eventually lead to academic failures. Skills students acquire from having consistent and transparent access to ELA content often leads to an increased amount of academic successes, directly through the practice and use of Google Applications for Education, and more specifically, Google Classroom. Supporting ELA content area learning through the features of Google Classroom allows students to become an important member of virtual learning communities that can be academically supportive and, likewise, can provide opportunities for students to master related College and Career Readiness Standards specific to ELA.

scholarly journals Improving College And Career Readiness Through Challenge-Based Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Shuptrine
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Challenge Based Learning

High school students in an Advanced Video class addressed the challenge of increasing community awareness. Students followed a challenge-based learning model developing guiding questions and activities to determine solutions for implementation. Literature supported the use of project-based learning that fostered partnerships outside of the classroom to develop 21st century skills. Students utilized multiple technologies to collaborate, plan, and produce advertising in a variety of mediums. During Phase 2, each team created videos documenting their entire process. Videos were presented to a group of random students and faculty members for critical review. Data were collected through pre and post surveys, observations, and student interviews. Data showed students found the process difficult but beneficial to developing 21st century skills.

College and Career Ready and Critically Conscious: Asset-Building With Latinx Immigrant Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 106907272098798
Author(s):  
Ellen Hawley McWhirter ◽  
Christina Cendejas ◽  
Maureen Fleming ◽  
Samantha Martínez ◽  
Nathan Mather ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
College And Career Ready

A growing body of evidence supports critical consciousness as a developmental asset for young people, including its benefits for educational and vocational outcomes. National dynamics and policies in the U.S., such as restricting immigration and asylum, have raised the salience of critical consciousness as a protective factor for the career development of Latinx immigrant youth. In this manuscript, we first review the nature and benefits of critical consciousness for Latinx immigrant youth. We then highlight how college and career readiness (CCR) and the components of critical consciousness (CC) can be simultaneously fostered among Latinx immigrant high school students, drawing upon our own work in the context of an afterschool program. We introduce a framework to illustrate this integration, and describe a series of intervention activities and processes designed to simultaneously build CC and CCR. Finally, we provide recommendations and describe caveats and challenges to developing classroom-based career education curricula that integrate CCR and CC.

“Color Does Not Equal Consciousness”: Educators of Color Learning to Enact a Sociopolitical Consciousness

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iesha Jackson ◽  
Michelle Knight-Manuel
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
Male Students ◽  
College And Career Readiness ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
College And Career ◽  
Sociopolitical Consciousness ◽  
Latino Male ◽  
Educators Of Color ◽  
Black And Latino

This study is based on an initiative for increasing college and career readiness for Black and Latino male high school students in New York City. From data that include 58 total hours of participant observations from 24 educators of color, written documentation from culturally relevant education–professional development (CRE-PD) activities, and transcripts of six group interviews, we examine these educators’ work to further their own sociopolitical consciousness in relation to increasing Black and Latino male students’ college and career readiness. We explore how secondary educators of color utilize pedagogical tools and practices in attempting to support their Black and Latino male students’ navigation of particular inequities related to college knowledge and access. Our findings highlight educators’ experiential knowledge as a pedagogical tool, approaches to preparing students for postsecondary opportunities, and missed opportunities to enact a sociopolitical consciousness. Recommendations for inservice educator PD and future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Test for Mobile phone dependence: psychometric properties and confirmatory factor analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Vezzoli ◽  
Aurora Colombo ◽  
Alessandra Marano ◽  
Giorgia Zoccatelli ◽  
Cristina Zogmaister
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Lack Of Control

AbstractThe Test of Mobile Phone Dependence (TMD) is a questionnaire designed for appraising the main dimensions of problematic smartphone use in adolescence. This study evaluates the factor structure and psychometric properties of the TMD on a sample of 813 Italian middle and high school students. The original three-factor model (Abstinence, Lack of Control, and Tolerance) of the TMD was tested through a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The results of the goodness of fit indices indicated a satisfactory solution. The overall TMD score showed a good level of internal consistency and good construct validity with the duration of use, age of possession of the first mobile phone, perceived self-efficacy, gender, and participants’ age. The relationship between TMD and Nomophobia was also explored. Overall, the results indicate that the TMD is a valid and reliable assessment tool in Italian culture. However, reliability issues emerged on the subfactor Lack of Control. This indicates that the scores on this subfactor should be treated with caution.

scholarly journals Development of a Cigarette Smoking Obscenity Scale (CSOS) in adolescents: an exploratory sequential mixed method design

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Khadijeh Keshavarzian ◽  
Haidar Nadrian ◽  
Asghar Mohammadpoorasl
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students

Background: Considering the increasing prevalence rate of smoking among Iranian adolescents,and recent evidence on the relationship between obscenity of smoking and tendency of adolescents towards the behavior, there is a need for an appropriate measurement tool to measure the level of obscenity on cigarette smoking among adolescents. This study was conducted to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire for measuring the obscenity of cigarette smoking in adolescents. Methods: This study was conducted in Tabriz, Iran, using an exploratory sequential mixed methods design. To explain the concept of obscenity and develop the questionnaire’s items, 18 students attended semi-structured individual interviews and 13 others took part in focus group discussions (FGDs) in three groups of 4-5. Extracting and summarizing the codes derived from the interviews, an item pool was developed, from which the initial draft of the scale was provided.Next, the psychometric properties of the scale were assessed using face, content, construct, and predictive validity, as well as internal consistency, and reliability in a sample of 1013 high school students. Results: The 22-item Cigarette Smoking Obscenity Scale (CSOS) was developed based on thecodes derived from qualitative data. Explanatory factor analysis revealed five-factor structure(Negative Attitude; Negative Consequence; Negative Valuation; Inappropriate Relationship; Agateway to addiction). In confirmatory factor analysis, the χ2/df ratio was 3.911 for the CSOS five-factor structure. Suitable values were obtained for the goodness of fit indices (GFI = 0.88,AGFI = 0.85, NFI = 0.87, IFI = 0.90, CFI = 0.90, RFI = 0.85, and RMSEA = 0.072). The Cronbach’s alpha and intraclass correlation (ICC) coefficients for the constructs ranged between 0.77 to 0.90 and 0.80 to 0.91, respectively. Conclusion: The validity and reliability of the CSOS was appropriate; therefore, it can be used infuture studies as a suitable tool for measuring the obscenity of cigarette smoking in adolescents.

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