Hui Song

Per. 6
Track Hours 33-40
Source S:
APA Citation:
Schneider, B., & Lee, Y. (1990). A Model for Academic Success: The School and Home
Environment of East Asian Students. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 21(4),
358-377. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3195710
Validation: This Source extends on my previous research on why Asian kids do better
academically.
Origin of Source: I found this source on Google Scholar.
Intended Audience: Teachers, parents, Asian American students
Arguments: The study found that the Academic success of East Asian students is related to the
socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, and interactive relationships among children,
teachers, parents, and peers. Overall, some major aspects are that Asian students are typically
expected to do well. Their parents, teachers, and peers all have high academic expectations for
Asian students. Culturally, Asian societies highly value education, and Asian parents often
spend time after school time developing their childs academic skills. Furthermore, Asian
cultures value students who are quiet, industrious, and disciplined, which teachers often
associate with well-behaved students. However, they are more prone to less developed social
skills and have difficulty rising to the very top paying jobs as a result.
Source T
APA Citation:
Zajacova, A., Lynch, S. M., & Espenshade, T. J. (2005). Self-efficacy, stress, and academic
success in college. Research in higher education, 46(6), 677-706.
Validation: This source analyzes the effects of self-efficacy in to stress for academic
performance.
Origin of Source: I found this source on Google Scholar.
Intended Audience: Students, teachers, and parents
Arguments: Part of the study found that full time students perform far better than part-time
students both in enrollment and grades. This can be attributed to the fact that part-time students
are more prone to attrition and the fact that grades are positively linked with persistence.
However, academic success because of persistence is more difficult to predict with older
students. Self-Efficacy was found to have a large impact on the grades of freshmen college
students as well as high school students.
Source U
APA Citation:
Steinberg, L., Elmen, J., & Mounts, N. (1989). Authoritative Parenting, Psychosocial Maturity, and
Academic Success among Adolescents. Child Development, 60(6), 1424-1436. doi:1.
Retrieved
from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1130932 doi:1

Validation: This source extends on my previous research on parenting and introduces the
aspect of psychosocial maturity.
Origin of Source: I found this source on Google Scholar.
Intended Audience: Parents and other educational researchers

Arguments: The study reaffirmed that authoritative parenting was beneficial to a students
academic success. In particular the effects of authoritativeness leads to a healthier sense of
autonomy and a good psychological attitude towards work. Adolescents who feel that their
parents treat them firmly, warmly, and democratically are more likely to develop positive mindset towards achievement. The study also found that although self-esteem didnt seem to have a
direct link to improved performance, changing a students attitude is certainly a more promising
approach.
Reflection:
Source S was surprisingly beneficial to my research, giving me more reasons and
aspects of why Asian students excel in school. I agree with the fact that Asian students are
expected to do far better than their peers and that it can certainly have a positive impact on a
students studies. On the other hand though, it also begs the question of whether it works the
other way around as well. Could the negative educational stereotypes of other races/ethnicities
affect how they perform? And if it does, then it will be a difficult problem to solve, as if a new
stereotype is passed around that every race/ethnicity is smart, then no one is considered above
average. As a result, Asian Americans may lose that benefit. However, this hypothetical situation
is highly unlikely as culture does also play a major role, but it is food for thought on possible
ways to better teach all types of people. The paper also mentions that because Asian cultures
value quiet and studious students, their teachers value them more as good students, which also
coincides with my junior nonfiction reading, Quiet. As for the problems with Asian students, I
agree with the vast majority of the findings. The focus on studying certainly does pose problems
with social development and I can see how that poses problems in my own life. However, I also
believe that being in the presence of a studious environment can greatly help in improving social
skills, but I also realize that such an environment can be difficult to find give how wide ranging
the US schools can be. Given the moderately long page length and data presented, this paper
took me about 2.5 hours to read.
Source T focused on an aspect I had learned about in psychology class last year, which
is self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is the belief in oneself to be able to accomplish a certain task, and it
was an aspect I had almost forgotten to look into. Looking at the results of the paper, I am
honestly not entirely surprised that self-efficacy helps students to earn better grades and attend
more classes. I was, however, intrigued to find that part-time students do worse than full-time
students at younger ages, but varies more as the older a student gets. I was also glad to learn
that persistence can be vitally important to the success. This research paper was about 50%
longer than Source S and had more difficult language, thus it took about 3.5 hours to read.
Source U was mostly reinforcement to my earlier research about parenting, except this
paper goes a little more into detail about the authoritative parenting. I wasnt really surprised
with the fact that authoritative parenting helps to give the student better autonomy and a positive
psychological outlook on work, but its good information regardless. However, I was surprised at
the lack of evidence that self-esteem improves academic performance, but I can understand
how attitude can have a greater impact on that. This source was had fewer pages than the
previous two, but it also has double columns of text, so it took me about two hours to read.