DISCOVER in High School: Identifying Gifted Hispanic and Native American Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketty M. Sarouphim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Native American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Predominantly Hispanic ◽  
Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

Based on Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, the DISCOVER assessment was designed to identify gifted minority students for placement into programs for the gifted. In previous studies, the reliability and validity of the assessment in elementary grades were examined and yielded mostly positive results. In this study, similar analyses were carried out to investigate some validity aspects of DISCOVER with secondary students. The sample consisted of 303 predominantly Hispanic and Native American ninth graders. The results provided evidence for an alignment of the assessment with the theory of multiple intelligences. Also, no overall gender or ethnic differences were found in the numbers of students identified. In addition, the results suggested that the use of the DISCOVER assessment might help in reducing the problem of minority students' under-representation in programs for the gifted, as 29.3% of the high school students who participated in this study were identified as gifted.

Development and Validation of a Short Form of the College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale

2020 ◽  
pp. 106907272096824
Author(s):  
Erin E. Hardin ◽  
Melinda M. Gibbons ◽  
Katherine D. Cook ◽  
Kody Sexton ◽  
Leigh Bagwell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
College Going

Social Cognitive Career Theory is a useful framework for understanding educational attainment and reducing educational inequities. A key construct for middle and high school students is college-going self-efficacy. The College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale (CGSES) has been used to measure secondary students’ confidence in their abilities to attend and persist in post-secondary education, but with 30-items, it may be too lengthy for use with other measures in SCCT-grounded research in school settings. Using two independent samples of rural Appalachian high school students, we develop and validate the College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CGSES-SF). This 14-item measure retains the full breadth of content from the original CGSES, demonstrates measurement equivalence across gender and prospective college generation status, and demonstrates good reliability and validity in these samples. Suggestions for future use of the CGSES-SF are provided.

Tunisian High School Students and Digital Media Literacy: A Quantitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110259
Author(s):  
Tarak Dridi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Digital Media Literacy ◽  
The Impact

Digital media literacy has become an intrinsic component in shaping high school students’ knowledge acquisition and critical thoughts. Over the last two decades, internet and computers have been the implemented tools to reach such goals and promote the students’ learning. This article looks for the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Tunisian secondary school students by detecting their technical skills as well as their critical understanding. This quantitative study relies on a self-reporting approach and targets 150 Tunisian secondary students. It proves the necessary consideration of technological and social variables in helping sort out major digital handicaps related to secondary students and displays the interconnectedness between the different dimensions of digital media literacy. It also displays that Tunisian high school students cannot be referred to as digital-media literate people. The study contributes to the field of digital media literacy as it offers a solid empirical background to build on and indicates the necessity of integrating digital media literacy into the school-based initiatives.

scholarly journals Book Review: American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Madeline Veitch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Native American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Selective Approach ◽  
Upper Level

In his preface to American Indian Culture, Editor Bruce E. Johansen outlines a highly selective approach to documenting historical and contemporary expressions of Native American cultures. Aimed at upper level-high school students and college undergraduates, this work is framed not as an encyclopedic resource but as “an introduction to a large and rich field of study” focused on “the interface of tradition and change” across cultural expressions such as art, literature, music, and dance (xiii).

scholarly journals CARASTERÍSTICAS DE LOS INTERESES VOCACIONALES EN ALUMNOS DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA EVALUADOS A TRAVÉS DEL EXPLORA

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
José Manuel Martínez Vicente ◽  
Isabel María Ángeles Segura
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Current View ◽  
Vocational Counseling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Marked Preference ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
A Current

Abstract:The evaluation of vocational and professional interests is considered one of the important aspects in education secondary students for their future decision making. Thus, the objective of this study is to have a current view of how they are configured vocational and professional interests in secondary students in Spain. This Questionnaire for Vocational and Professional EXPLORE (Martinez-Vicente & Santamaría, 2013) to a sample of 3123 high school students and high school applied. The results obtained indicate that there are sex differences in the elections. While women marked preference for Social - Welfare - Artistic and Creative fields in the two men chosen fields are the Technical and Business -Owner - Persuasiavo. In the analysis of the indices of consistency and differentiation women are more consistent than men and differentiation is also higher for them.Keywords: Behavior vocational, vocational choice, vocational and professional interests, Vocational Counseling, Skills, Personality, Self-efficacy.Resumen:La evaluación de los intereses vocacionales y profesionales se considera uno de los aspectos importante en alumnos de educación Secundaria de cara a su futura toma de decisiones. Así pues, el objetivo del presente estudio es tener una visión actual de cómo están configurados los intereses vocacionales y profesionales en alumnos de educación secundaria en España. Para ello se aplicó el Cuestionario para la Orientación Vocacional y Profesional EXPLORA (Martínez-Vicente y Santamaría, 2013) a una muestra de 3123 alumnos de secundaria y Bachillerato. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que existen diferencias de sexo en las elecciones. Mientras que las mujeres marcan preferencia por los campos Social-Asistencial y Artistico-Creativo, en los hombres los dos campos más elegidos son el Técnico-Manual y el Empresarial-Persuasivo. En los análisis de los índices de consistencia y diferenciación las mujeres son más consistentes que los hombres y la diferenciación también es mayor a favor de ellas.Palabras claves: Conducta vocacional, Elección vocacional, Intereses vocacionales y profesionales, Asesoramiento vocacional, Habilidades, Personalidad, Autoeficacia.

Equity in high school computer science: Beyond access

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110630
Author(s):  
Paul Bruno ◽  
Colleen M Lewis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Native American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Data ◽  
And Gender ◽  
K 12

Little is known about the extent to which expansions of K-12 computer science (CS) have been equitable for students of different racial backgrounds and gender identities. Using longitudinal course-level data from all high schools in California between the 2003–2004 and 2018–2019 school years we find that 79% of high school students in California, including majorities of all racial groups, are enrolled in schools that offer CS, up from 45% in 2003. However, while male and female students are equally likely to attend schools that offer CS courses, CS courses represent a much smaller share of course enrollments for female students than for male students. Non-Asian students enroll in relatively few CS courses, and this is particularly true for Black, Hispanic, and Native American students. Race gaps in CS participation are to a substantial degree explicable in terms of access gaps, but gender gaps in CS participation are not. Different groups of students have access to CS teachers with similar observable qualifications, but CS teachers remain predominantly white and male. Consequently, white and male CS students are much more likely than other students to have same-race or same-gender instructors. Our findings and the implications we draw for practice will be of interest to administrators and policymakers who, over and above needing to ensure equitable access to CS courses for students, need to attend carefully to equity-related course participation and staffing considerations.

Examining the effect of sports participation motive on aggression

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-619
Author(s):  
Sermet Toktas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Motivation To Participate

This study aims to investigate the relationship between aggression and sports participation motives of Sports High School students in Adıyaman, Kahramanmaraş, and Malatya provinces in Turkey. 575 Sports High School students, including 385 males and 190 females, participated in our research. Surveys used to measure variables included a 30-item sports participation motivation scale a 30-item “aggression inventory”. Reliability and validity studies of the sport participation motive scale were done by Gill et al, and it was determined that Cronbach's alpha coefficients were between 0.30 and 0.78 for the sub-dimensions. The Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient of the aggression scale was calculated as .83. According to our findings, there was a moderately positive relationship between assertiveness, which is the sub-dimension of aggression, and competition, and friends, which is the sub-dimension of the motivation to participate in sports. A moderately significant negative correlation was found with the sub-dimensions of aggression and entertainment, which is the sub-dimension of the motivation to participate in sports. A moderately significant positive relationship was found with destructive aggression, which is the sub-dimensions of aggression, and success and status, and competition, which are the sub-dimensions of participation in sports.

Israeli Arab Minority Students’ Help Seeking for Bullying From School Counselors

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaacov B. Yablon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
School Students ◽  
Willingness To Seek Help ◽  
Arab Minority ◽  
National Representative Sample

Minority students are less likely to seek help to deal with bullying at school than their majority counterparts. Nonetheless, very little is known about the factors that influence their willingness to seek help, or the role of school counselors as potential help providers. Thus, in the present study we examined Israeli Arab minority high school students’ help seeking from school counselors for coping with verbal, physical, and social bullying. A national representative sample of 730 high school students participated in the study. Our findings revealed that the vast majority of students did not seek help at all. Students who sought help, in comparison with those who did not, reported more positive relationships with their school counselors, and noted that their counselors were more available for them. Students who experienced higher levels of victimization were more willing to seek help than those who experienced lower levels. Implications for help seeking and the role of counselors in schools are discussed.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of multiple intelligences based teaching strategy in enhancing the multiple intelligences and science process skills of junior High School students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atiek Winarti ◽  
Leny Yuanita ◽  
Moh. Nur
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science Process Skills

The study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching strategy based on Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory to improve multiple intelligences and science process skills of junior high school students in Indonesia. The study used quasi experimental design and the effectiveness of the teaching strategy was evaluated by pretest-posttest-control-group design. The samples consisted of two schools selected by Stratified Random Sampling. The experimental group (n=63) was taught using the MI strategy while the control group (n=61) was taught using the traditional strategy. This study was conducted in 12 weeks. Data were obtained from multiple intelligences test, science process skills test, and observation sheets. The hypotheses of student multiple intelligences and science process skills were tested using Wilcoxon’s Signed Rank Test and ANOVA test. The results indicated that students who were instructed by using MI strategy improved on four specific types of multiple intelligences namely visual spatial, intrapersonal, kinesthetic, and musical intelligences. However, the interpersonal logic remains unchanged, while the mathematical logic decreases after treatment. Also, these showed an improvement of the science process skills, specifically in the questioning ability.

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