Notwithstanding years of retention efforts, graduation rates of Latinas/os remain alarmingly
low. The purpose of this review is threefold. First, the authors go beyond traditional theory …

How students understand, feel about and respond to assessment might contribute
significantly to learning behaviour and academic achievement. This paper reviews studies …

Evidence for Bourdieu's social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding
educational inequality has been relatively mixed. Critics discount the usefulness of core …

Students conceive of assessment in at least four major ways (ie, assessment makes
students accountable; assessment is irrelevant because it is bad or unfair; assessment …

Amid the increased use of the notion of cultural capital as a theoretical or analytical tool in
educational research remain many different definitions, misconceptions, and appropriations …

Using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, we examined the probability of students
attending college by taking into account their 10th-and 12th-grade exposure to college …

This study focuses on how social class affects the college experiences and outcomes for
African American students in 4-year colleges and universities. Using a national, longitudinal …

This volume examines conceptual frameworks and models that flow from scholars'
definitions and operationalizations of social class: status attainment theory, human capital …

The racial, ethnic, linguistic, and economic diversity within urban areas necessitates the
creation of scholastic environments that are responsive to the varying academic and social …

This study examines the college transition of students who participated in a summer bridge
program. Three surveys collected longitudinal data on these students' aspirations and …