What Do We Know about "Race Unknown"?

Autor/inn/en	Ford, Karly; Rosinger, Kelly; Zhu, Qiong
Titel	What Do We Know about "Race Unknown"?
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 49 (2020) 5, S.376-381 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ford, Karly)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
DOI	10.3102/0013189X20923342
Schlagwörter	Racial Identification; Institutional Characteristics; Higher Education; Enrollment Trends; Race; Problems; Data Collection; Student Surveys; Self Disclosure (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Rasse; Abstammung; Problemsituation; Data capture; Datensammlung; Schülerbefragung
Abstract	One ethnoracial reporting category perplexes higher education researchers: "race and ethnicity unknown." Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), we constructed a 28-year panel of 4,401 institutions. We find that the for-profit sector ranges from 5% to 18% "race unknown" students. In addition, almost 10% of students attending the most selective institutions were reported as "race unknown" in 2009 before dropping off precipitously. The size of the "race unknown" category can be attributed to some combination of student responses and data collection practices. We suggest researchers refrain from dropping "race unknown" from their studies as doing so may bias findings for the other ethnoracial categories, especially when comparing rates of student enrollment across institutional types. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01