Korean-American adolescents' academic success Article

Korean-American adolescents academic success - Article Exampleentional heathen values and beliefs have been preserved by the originating migrants, their children have completely adapted and adjusted to Western culture.It is provoke to delve into finding out the factors which contribute to the academic performance of migrants children, specifically Korean Americans. Adolescents from todays generation have grown with relatively antithetical thinking and preferences compared to generations that their grandparents and parents were accustomed to. Likewise, academic performance, attitudes and behaviors of previous generations were influenced by traditional and conventional norms. The methods of teaching as well as the instructional materials available during those times tin limited or more constrained opportunities for access of a broader knowledge base. The impact of advances in applied science in the past decades has drastically altered the values, views and preferences of adolescent s including their study habits and academic performances.The objectives of this research are threefold (1) to preface the academic achievement of Korean-American adolescents in schools in the US (2) to identify which factors contribute to academic success of Korean-American adolescents and (3) to repair the effect of family and culture in the academic achievement of Korean-American adolescents in US schools.Ethnic Identity as a Predictor of Problem Behaviors among Korean American Adolescents, a Journal article by Eunai K. Shrake, Siyon Rhee Adolescence, Vol. 39, 2004 presents the central problems that Korean American adolescents experience.Chung, Jungsook Park. 1998. A Study of Self-Esteem in Selected Korean-American Youth in the Fort Worth-Dallas Area. Ph.D. Thesis, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary aims to discover certain significant predictors of self-esteem among Korean-American adolescents and to determine the difference in self-esteem scores across the variables of gender, length of residence in the