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STUDENT PERCEPTIONS AT MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLS
by
James Yi
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2012
Copyright 2012 James Yi
Object Description
| Title | Student perceptions at middle college high schools |
| Author | Yi, James |
| Author email | jamesyi76@gmail.com;jamesyi76@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-06-25 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-25 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-25 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-25 |
| Date published | 2012-07-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hentschke, Guilbert C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dwyer, David C. Thorossian, Katherine Fundukian |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study on student perspectives at middle college and early college high schools was to investigate how these institutions create greater access and persistence for at-risk students who attend postsecondary schools when studies report regression and skewed differences among ethnic and racial groups and socioeconomic classes at this level. There is clearly a problem in this country between majorities and minorities and among socioeconomic classes. This is not improving nor does it promise to improve in the near future. However, certain schools overcome this problem. This study focuses on the phenomenon of middle college and early college high schools and their design principles. ❧ Middle college and early college design principles require and encourage schools to utilize the theoretical framework on which this study is based: the theory of social capital through agents and resources. Support networks help to drive these schools toward academic success while adhering to each school’s visions and principles. The schools and students sampled for this study were from two middle college and early college high schools in similar low socioeconomic urban neighborhoods. The main purpose of this study was to collect phenomenological data about the subjective perspectives of a group of students from these schools and compare the data to those reported in the literature, including data reported by the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University, which guided development of questions for this study. This includes the theory in action, social capital theory, which was applied and compared to student insights to supplement future endeavors in the field of education. |
| Keyword | student perceptions; middle college high school |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Yi, James |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-YiJames-992.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | STUDENT PERCEPTIONS AT MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLS by James Yi ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2012 Copyright 2012 James Yi |
