Latino college students' school identification and academic acheivement : racial socialization in identity

This research to examine the effects of race socialization and ethnic identity on\ud academic achievement performance in ethnic minority identified adolescents. Ethnic\ud identification, whether strong or weak, could play a role in academic achievement. Strong\ud ethnic identified students who often face both negative academic stereotypes and peer\ud pressure, will adopt anti-academic behaviors and place less emphasis on academic\ud achievement, dis-identifying from school, and possibly dropping-out. Thus, this research\ud sought to examine other possible alternative factors which can account for students???\ud ability to complete high school other than social-economic status