Asian American Students At Risk: A Literature Review. Research. Report No. 8

摘要

High academic achievement is closely linked in the publics mind with Asian American students, but many Asian American ethnic subgroups and individuals remain at risk. The main purpose of this literature review is to assess the state-of-the-art in research on Asian American students in the public school system who are at risk of academic failure. The risk factors examined are the language backgrounds and abilities, history of schooling, timing and reasons for coming to the United States, emotional trauma and vulnerability, ethnic group affiliation and identity, motivation, and sense of self-efficacy. Interventions are examined that are designed exclusively for Asian American students or include Asian American participants. The author finds that there is a lack of comprehensive and reliable data on the academic achievement of Asian American students and confusion around the designation of ethnic subgroups, and that research on intervention programs seldom gives a clear picture of what works, with which ethnic group, and at which age level.