Crosnoe, Robert
Researchers: Robert Crosnoe
University Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Email: crosnoe@mail.la.utexas.edu
Research Question:
Identify different types of Hispanic students based on their academic achievement and school orientation
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Sociological Forum
Journal Entry: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 561-568
Year: 2005
Findings:
- The high achieving profiles were over represented in schools with low SES levels.
- The low achieving profiles were overrepresented in schools with a greater proportion of Hispanic students.
- In schools with more Hispanic teachers, Hispanics were more likely to fall in the high-achieving, strongly oriented profile than in the high achieving, moderately oriented profile.
- Hispanic students show more orientation to schools with more Hispanic peers and teachers, even if they do not demonstrate greater achievement.
- Study identifies the type of schools where Hispanic students are most successful- small, private schools with moderate SES level, some Hispanic teachers, and high academic press.
- The low-achieving, moderately oriented students really liked school but fell below average on academic achievement (at just under a C average, the lowest achievement level of all profiles) as well as the other two indicators of school orientation (educational engagement, extracurricular participation).
- The high-achieving, moderately oriented students had the highest level of academic achievement in the sample.
- Older Hispanics were less likely to be low-achieving and moderately oriented than they were to be low-achieving and weakly oriented, and, to a slightly lesser degree, they were more likely to be high-achieving and moderately oriented than they were to be high-achieving and strongly oriented.
- The consistency of the significant positive coefficients of Mexican- and Cuban- Americans status or membershipi n the low-achieving, moderately oriented profile (was driven by the Puerto Rican students, who served as the reference category.
- Cuban-American youth were much less likely to be in the low-achieving, moderately oriented profile than in the low-achieving, weakly oriented profile.
- Hispanics born in the United States were much more likely to have general, cross-cutting problems at school than those born in Latin America.