"Success" in the Borderlands: Measuring Success for Underrepresented and Misrepresented College Students

Autor/inn/en	Langhout, Regina Day; Rosales, Christine E.; Gordon, David L., Jr.
Titel	"Success" in the Borderlands: Measuring Success for Underrepresented and Misrepresented College Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 16 (2023) 5, S.646-659 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Langhout, Regina Day)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-8926
DOI	10.1037/dhe0000444
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Disproportionate Representation; College Students; Hispanic American Students; First Generation College Students; Test Construction; Measures (Individuals); Test Validity; Psychometrics; Minority Serving Institutions; Self Determination; Interpersonal Relationship; Citizenship; Grade Point Average; College Entrance Examinations; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Collegestudent; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Testaufbau; Messdaten; Testvalidität; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Selbstbestimmung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Staatsbürgerschaft; Aufnahmeprüfung
Abstract	Current measures of student success fall short in capturing the nuanced and multiplicitous ways that underrepresented and misrepresented students (e.g., Latinx, first-generation college students) who are navigating the intersection of multiple contexts important to their identities (e.g., home communities and university), define and understand success. For students, success includes individual and collective desires for well-being, or the desire to acquire an education to improve one's life and to pursue social justice in their home communities. In this study, we used Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of the Borderlands (1999) as a conceptual framework to develop a Borderlands scale as a new measure of student success. For the psychometric validation of the scale, we surveyed 250 college students who were enrolled in a Hispanic Serving Research Institution. On a random half sample of the data, we performed an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine a good fitting model. On the other half of the sample, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess evidence of validity. For the purposes of assessing convergent and discriminant validity, we provide correlations between the Borderlands scale and three thriving quotient subscales: academic determination, social connection, and diverse citizenship (Schreiner, 2010a), as well as high school grade point average (GPA) and composite Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. We end the article with implications for the college student success literature, and for universities, especially Hispanic Serving Institutions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01