Investigating The Connection Between Low Ses, Criminal Behavior And Low Self-Efficacy And Achivement Of African American Students
Bernadette Harris
EDF 6480
Research Study
Assignment 1
Investigating Connections between Low Self-Efficacy, Low Academic Performance and Future Behavioral Problems of Low SES Students
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM:
Students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are entering schools with very low self-efficacy which is leading to poor academic achievement. Many of these students later develop behavioral problems of increasing severity, leading to dismal prognoses for their future. As a result, they become frustrated and develop external behavioral problems, often increasing in severity and leading to criminal activity.
Researchers have conducted many studies on the constraints of poverty on high achievement (Burney & Beilke, 2008) beginning in elementary schools and continuing throughout high school and beyond. As early as first grade, low reading achievement has been linked to visible outward behavioral problems as soon as two years later (Morgan, Farkas, Tufis &......
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Approximate Pages: 14 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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