Rachel E Durham

Biographic Data

ID306020
NAMERachel E Durham
GIVEN NAMESRachel E
FAMILY NAMEDurham
SIGNATUREDURHAM R E
AFFILIATIONSNotre Dame of Maryland University
ORCID0000-0003-0904-5785
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Encouraging STEM Careers among Minoritized High School Students

    Open AccessRachel E Durham, Michael L Falk et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Performance in math, particularly algebra, is a major barrier to student success and participation in STEM among under-represented minoritized students, particularly Black U.S. high school students. This research applies social cognitive career theory (SCCT) to measure the impacts of an afterschool algebra for engineering program on math self-efficacy and interest in STEM among high school students in a large urban district. To study the program’…

  • K-12 science achievement

    Juliann Dupuis, Rachel E DurhamARTICLEEnvironmental Education Research2023References: 1

    Green School Programs are an internationally recognized effort that transforms schools into environmentally friendly entities and engage school communities in environmentally impactful efforts. Such efforts may increase student awareness about their connection to the environment and have the potential to increase achievement through opportunities for hands-on science learning. This study utilizes publicly available data on public schools and stud…

  • Indicators to Assist in Addressing Equity through Policy Adoption

    Open AccessFaith Connolly, Tracey L Durant et al.ARTICLETeachers College Record The Voice…2020

    Background/Context The introduction of a racial equity policy provided an opportunity for one school district to examine its systems. The policy addressed structural inequity, as well as cultural literacy issues, internal personal biases, and other power dynamic differences in a historically impacted city. Researchers from a local research-practice policy partnered with the district Director of Equity to support the implementation of a racial equ…

  • Corriger les indices de scolarisation par la standardisation des structures par âge

    Open AccessBilal Barakat, Bilal F Barakat et al.ARTICLEPopulation2014References: 2

    La fréquentation scolaire dépend de l’âge. La composition par âge de la population, par un pur effet de structure, influe sur la valeur des indices agrégés de présence dans le système scolaire tels que les ratios de scolarisation. Ce phénomène n’est généralement pas reconnu et a fortiori pris en compte dans les statistiques scolaires. Au mieux, la question de la structure par âge est simplement considérée comme une source d’erreur de mesure quand…

  • Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers

    Open AccessBilal Barakat, Rachel E Durham et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2013References: 47

    Understanding the relationship of education to fertility requires the disentangling of the potentially confounding effect of social status, which is highly correlated with education

  • Kindergarten oral language skill

    Open AccessRachel E Durham, George Farkas et al.ARTICLEResearch in Social Stratification…2007Cited by: 23References: 10

  • Nonmetropolitan Status and Kindergarteners' Early Literacy Skills

    Open AccessRachel E Durham, P Johnelle SmithARTICLERural Sociology2006Cited by: 6References: 37

    This study seeks to discover whether beginning kindergarteners vary in early literacy readiness according to their county's metro/non-metropolitan status, county-level economic and social characteristics, individual demographic characteristics, family social capital resources, and preschool childcare. Using student-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort and county-level data from various secondary sources, we e…