Authors: Burge, Stephanie W.
1) Are family attitudes less likely to constrain young women's STEM intentions and attainment in the 1990s, as compared to…
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2) 2013 - Racial Segregation and the Black/White Achievement Gap, 1992 to 2009
Authors: Condron, Dennis, Tope, Daniel, Steidl, Christinia R., & Freeman, Kendralin J.
H1:As black/white school dissimilarity increase, the black/white achievement gap increases H2:As exposure of black students to white students increases, the…
3) 2013 - Comparing Composition Effects in Two Education Systems: The Case of the Belgian Communities
Authors: Danhier, Julien, & Martin, Emilie
What factors explain the achievement gap between Belgiums two major linguistic communities : French and Dutch ?
4) 2013 - Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Authors: Dynarski, Susan, Hyman, Joshua, & Whitmore Schanzenbach, Diane
Does having a small class size in K through 3rd have an impact on postsecondary outcomes?
5) 2013 - College Student Pathways to the STEM Disciplines
Authors: Engberg, Mark E., & Wolniak, Gregory C.
1) What individual and school-level factors influence students pathways to STEM fields during college? 2) What institutional factors affect students'…
6) 2013 - Supporting Future Scientists: Predicting Minority Student Participation in the STEM Opportunity Structure in Higher Education
Authors: Figueroa, Tanya, Hughes, Bryce, & Hurtado, Sylvia
Researches STEM persistence by identifying the educational experiences and institutional contexts that contribute to student access and involvement in the…
7) 2013 - The Role of Residential Segregation in Contemporary School Segregation
Authors: Frankenberg, Erica
What is the relationship between school and housing segregation at the metropolitan area level? Do trends in segregation differ by…
8) 2013 - STEM Club Participation and STEM Schooling Outcomes
Authors: Gottfried, Michael A., & Williams, Darryl N.
This study evaluates how math club participation influences math GPA and how science club participation influences science GPA. Additionally, this…
9) 2013 - Do Housing Choice Voucher Holders Live Near Good Schools?
Authors: Horn, Keren M., Ellen, Ingrid G., & Schwartz Amy E.
Do housing voucher holders live next to good schools?
11) 2013 - Examining the Tracks that Cause Derailment: Institutional Contexts and Engineering Degree Attainments
Authors: Hughes, Bryce E., Garibay, Juan C., Hurtado, Sylvia, & Eagan, Kevin
1) What factors contribute to completing an engineering degree within five years? 2) What factors contribute to students switching out…
13) 2013 - Science Identity Trajectories of Latecomers to Science in College
Authors: Jackson, Phoebe A., & Seiler, Gale
What trends in science identity trajectories are latecomers to science able to construct during their first year in a college…
14) 2013 - Academic Achievement Trajectories of Adolescents from Mexican and East Asian Immigrant Families in the United States
Authors: Jeong, Yu-Jin
What are the growth patterns of academic achievement of adolescent students from immigrant families?
15) 2013 - Predictors of Latina/o Community College Student Vocational Choice of STEM Fields: Testing of the STEM-Vocational Choice Model
Authors: Johnson, Joel D.
1) Are there statistically significant effects of exogenous factors associated with observed vocational interest on the dependent variable of vocational…
16) 2013 - Predictors of Latina/o community college student vocational choice of STEM fields: Testing of the STEM-vocational choice mode
Authors: Johnson, Joel D.
1) Are there statistically significant effects of exogenous factors associated with observed vocational interest on the dependent variable of vocational…
17) 2013 - Equalizing, But Not Greatly: High School Resources and Socioeconomic Inequalities in College Destinations
Authors: Klugman, Joshua
This study examines if school resources have different effects for low- and high-SES students' college destinations. This study also examines…
18) 2013 - Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection?
Authors: Lauen, Douglas Lee, & Gaddis, Michael S.
How does exposure to classroom poverty affect student test achievement?
20) 2013 - Predicting High School Students' Interest in Majoring in a STEM Field: Insight into High School Students' Postsecondary Plans
Authors: Lichtenberger, Eric, & George-Jackson, Casey
This study examined how various individual, family, and school level contextual factors impact the likelihood of planning to major in…
24) 2013 - Social Class and the STEM Career Pipeline: An Ethnographic Investigation of Opportunity Structures in High-Poverty Versus Affluent High School
Authors: Nikischer, Andrea B.
1) What are the mechanisms through which high school opportunity structures link to student choice of STEM major and college…
25) 2013 - Choosing an Undergraduate STEM Major: Family Socioeconomic Status, Individual, and Institutional Factors
Authors: Niu, Lian
The purpose of this study wasto examine college students’ enrollment decision in STEM majors with a focus on students’ family…
26) 2013 - High School Economic Composition and College Persistence
Authors: Niu, Sunny X., & Tienda, Marta
The authors examine variation in college persistence according to the economic composition of high schools, which serves as a proxy…
27) 2013 - Does Immigration Affect whether U.S. Natives Major in Science and Engineering?
Authors: Orrenius, Pia M., & Zavodny, Madeline
Does the amount of immigrants have an impact on the amount of U.S. natives that major in STEM?
28) 2013 - The Effects of Single-Sex Compared With Coeducational Schooling on Mathematics and Science Achievement: Data From Korea
Authors: Pahlke, Erin; Hyde, Janet Shibley; Mertz, Janet E.
Are there differential effects of single-sex schooling on girls’ compared with boys’ mathematics and science performance?
29) 2013 - High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment
Authors: Palardy, Gregory J.
1) To what degree do student attainment, academic and family background, and school factors vary in low, medium, and high…
30) 2013 - The Effect of High School Segregation on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills in the United States
Authors: Palardy, Gregory J., & Rumberger, Russell W.
1) What is the extent of racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic segregation among U.S. high schools? 2) To what degree are…
31) 2013 - How Well Does the SAT and GPA Predict the Retention of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Business Students
Authors: Rohr, Samuel L.
This study examined if a higher college preparatory GPA and a higher aggregate score on the SAT helped predict the…
33) 2013 - I Think it's Just Natural': The Spatiality of Racial Segregation at a US High School
Authors: Thomas, Mary E.
How does race and it's ambivalences occur through girls' everyday and banal spatial practices at school?
36) 2013 - Do School Districts Matter?
Authors: Whitehurst, Grover J., Chingos, Matthew M., & Gallaher, Michael R.
1) What is the influence of school districts on student achievement relative to the influence of schools, teachers, and individual…
37) 2013 - Gender and ethnic differences in precollege mathematics course work related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathways
Authors: You, Sukkyung
How do students of different ethnicity and gender groups differ in advanced mathematics course-taking and in STEM major choice? What…
38) 2012 - Longitudinal Analysis of the Relations Between Opportunities to Learn About Science and the Development of Interests Related to Science
Authors: Alexander, Joyce M., Johnson, Kathy E., & Kelley, Ken
The authors hypothesize that children's developing interest in science emerges over time through coregulation between children's interest and the informal…
39) 2012 - Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus: How Families Shape Children's Engagement and Identification With Science
Authors: Archer, Louise, DeWitt, Jennifer, Osborne, Jonathan, Dillon, Justin, Willis, Beatrice, & Wong, Billy
How and why is science a more ‘‘thinkable'' aspiration in some families and not others?
40) 2012 - The Cost-Effectiveness of Socioeconomic School Integration
Authors: Basile, Marco
1) What is the effect of SES integration on outcomes? 2) Is SES integration a cost effective strategy for diversity?…
41) 2012 - The Enduring Impact of Race: Understanding Disparities in Student Disciplinary Infractions and Achievement
Authors: Beck, Audrey N., & Muschkin, Clara G.
To what extent do persistent race gaps in educational outcomes stem from differences in the level of advantage that students…
42) 2012 - Intergroup Relations in Integrated Schools: A Glimpse Inside Interdistrict Magnet Schools
Authors: Bifulco, Robert
How does the extent and quality of intergroup contact experienced by students help to predict their perceptions of the academic…
43) 2012 - Middle-Income Peers as Educational Resources and the Constitutional Right to Equal Access
Authors: Black, Derek W.
Should middle income peers be conceived as educational resources in schools?
44) 2012 - What's Past is Prologue: How Precollege Exposure to Racial Diversity Shapes the Impact of College Interracial Interactions
Authors: Bowman, Nicholas A., & Denson, Nida
Examines the extent to which students’ precollege exposure to racial/ ethnic diversity moderates the relationships between college interracial interactions and…
45) 2012 - The Academic Success of East Asian American Youth: The Role of Shadow Education
Authors: Byun, Soo-yong, & Park, Hyunjoon
Hypothesis 1: East Asian American students will be more likely to take a commercial SAT test preparation course than any…
46) 2012 - School Choice and Educational Inequality in South Korea
Authors: Byun, Soo-yong, Kim, Kyung-Keun, & Park, Hyunjoon
1) Does the High School Equalization Policy (HSEP) relate to the separation of low and high SES students between schools?…
47) 2012 - Bourdieu's Notion of Cultural Capital and Its Implications for the Science Curriculum
Authors: Claussen, Stephanie, & Osborne, Jonathan
To examine the specific contributions that science education makes to a student's cultural capital: in particular, how that capital is…
48) 2012 - Classroom Composition and Racial Differences in Opportunities to Learn
Authors: Covay, Elizabeth
How much variation is there in topic coverage and use of instructional tasks among advanced mathematical courses with the same…
49) 2012 - Low-Income Engineering Students: Considering Financial Aid and Differential Tuition
Authors: George-Jackson, Casey E., Rincon, Blanca, & Martinez, Mariana G.
1) What are the rates of participation in Engineering undergraduate programs at two public, research universities by socio-economic status? 2)…