An Investigation of the Perceptions of Ninth Grade Latino Male Students on Factors that Impact ther School Success

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dc.contributor.advisorFabian, Ellenen_US
dc.contributor.authorBriscoe, Janiceen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEducation Policy, and Leadershipen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T06:20:13Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T06:20:13Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractThe high school dropout rate is a crisis for the nation, states and local school districts. While District X, a large urban/suburban district in the Mid-Atlantic region graduation rate increased, the Latino subgroup reflected a gap of 11 percentage points. Most of the students in this subgroup are males. This qualitative study investigated the perceptions of 29 Latino male ninth grade students in three District X high schools based on their Early Warning Indicator Report (EWIR) band-green (low risk) or red (high-risk) that support or challenge their successful school engagement and school completion. Further, the study examined the internal pushout, external pullout and supportive pull factors that contribute to or hinder Latino males’ school engagement to increase the number of Latino male high school graduates. Five forty-five minute focus group sessions were conducted. The students completed a nine question demographic survey and responded to a 12 question query to questions regarding their perceptions of the internal, external and supportive factors that support or hinder their school engagement. Using NVivo to analyze responses from the five focus groups, eight main themes were identified Overall, the findings pointed out that green (low risk) were more critical and reflective than their red (high risk) and mixed group peers in each of the eight themes including negative personal outlook.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2348GK4B
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21004
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational leadershipen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGraduation Ratesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLatino Malesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNinth Gradeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPull Factorsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPush Factorsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSupportive Pull Factorsen_US
dc.titleAn Investigation of the Perceptions of Ninth Grade Latino Male Students on Factors that Impact ther School Successen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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