Interracial Best Friendships: Relationship with 10th Graders’ Academic Achievement Level

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0701100
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Newgent ◽  
Sang Min Lee ◽  
Ashley F. Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Achievement Level ◽  
Latino Americans ◽  
Best Friendships ◽  
Els 2002

The authors examined the relationships between interracial best friendships and 10th-grade students’ academic achievement. The analysis consisted of data from 13, 134 participants in the ELS:2002 database. The results indicated that interracial best friendships for minority students (African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians) generally have a positive relationship with students’ academic achievement. Discussion and implications of the results are presented.

scholarly journals EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-380
Author(s):  
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri ◽  
Wei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Achievement Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Relationship

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is essential attribution among school learners of today. In this respect, determination and normalization of the measures to investigate and recognize dimensions levels help educators have a successful intervention and increase students' academic achievement level. This research aimed to explore the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the academic achievement of Arabic basic school students in China. Further, it also sought to determine the level of students' emotional intelligence and motivation to learn. The research aims are addressed through a tool that explores emotional intelligence and motivation. A 60-item for initial emotional intelligence scale was utilized and analyzed to test their psychometric properties by pilot testing. A final total of 303 students with ages ranged between 12-16 years old participated in the research. The research findings suggested the final formulation of items of the emotional intelligence scale that can measure the levels of emotional intelligence of students along with a significantly positive relationship to academic achievement. There were statistically significant differences in the respondents' level of emotional intelligence according to the gender variable. In comparison, there were no statistically significant differences in the respondents' level of emotional intelligence according to the grade variable. Recommendations of the research were presented. Keywords: emotional intelligence, academic achievement, factor analysis, development and relationship

Minority Employment in U.S. Federal Agencies: Continuity and Change

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomon A. Guajardo
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Racial Integration ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Service Agencies

The study investigates whether the proportion of U.S. federal civil service agencies with representative workforces has increased between 1982 and 1990. The study reveals several important findings: 1) the proportion of federal agencies with representative workforces remained constant between 1982 and 1990, 2) a significant number of agencies continue to have racially unrepresentative workforces with respect to the total U.S. minority population and individual minority groups, and 3) during the years 1982 and 1990, American-Indians experienced the most racial integration in U.S. federal agencies in comparison to African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. The study also indicates that Hispanics continue to be drastically under-represented in a large percentage of U.S. federal agencies.

scholarly journals Sources: The Great American Mosaic: An Exploration of Diversity in Primary Documents

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Chris G. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Latino Americans ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Identity Based

Gary Y. Okihiro's edited collection of primary documents, The Great American Mosaic, is a conventionally formatted ABC-CLIO sourcebook of historical materials divided between four volumes, one of each focusing on the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans. A set that also included a volume focused on the experience of Muslim Americans might have increased the impression of timeliness to the work as a whole, but such an identity-based assignment would not have gelled with Okihiro's geographically based organization, the logic of which he explains tautly in a general introduction to the set.

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