The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of social factors affecting
the academic achievement of secondary African American urban (AAU) female students
in an urban school district. This study determined whether the AAU females in this study
perceived the social factors in the literature review to impact their academic
achievement, the relationship between those social factors and academic achievement,
and the differences in academic achievement by socioeconomic status.
One hundred fifty-eight (158) AAU female students from three high schools in
one urban district located in southeast Texas participated in this study. A self-generated
51-item questionnaire (Students' Perceptions of Social Factors Affecting Academic
Achievement in Urban Schools) was used to collect data for this study. There were three
major results in the study. First, there were not any significant factors impacting the
academic achievement of AAU females; secondly, AAU females did not perceive any
social factors as significantly affecting their academic achievement; and finally, there were not any statistical differences between socioeconomic status and academic
achievement. Specifically, the results did not reveal a difference between AAU 12th
grade female students on free and reduced lunch and those not on free and reduced lunch
in terms of academic performance.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7730 |
| Date | 2010 May 1900 |
| Creators | Shelby-King, Rhonda Evette |
| Contributors | Carter, Norvella |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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