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Item 1-2-3! Catch-up for HPV: A Theoretically Informed Psychosocial Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake Among Young Adults(2020-08-07) Harper, Kristina; Short, Mary; Bistricky, Steven; Kusters, IsabelleThe Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States causing a range of sequelae from genital warts to cancer. In the past 10 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed three vaccines that target the most common and severe strains of HPV. Current guidelines recommend the HPV vaccine be given prophylactically during adolescence; however, vaccination rates remain suboptimal. Thus, there are increased efforts to increase vaccination among the catch-up group, or individuals between 18 and 26 years of age, due to increased autonomy in healthcare decisions. Previous research has utilized the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to understand factors that impact HPV vaccination uptake. The TPB posits that attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control contribute to one’s intent and subsequent engagement in a behavior. Recently, an affective component, anticipatory regret, was added to the model to increase utility. Despite research suggesting the TPB variables are directly related to vaccine uptake, interventions have primarily focused on education only with minimal success. Thus, the current study aimed to enhance an education-based intervention to directly target the TPB variables for increased HPV vaccination among the catch-up group. The study was a randomized control design that compared a TPB-informed psychosocial intervention with both an education-only intervention and a no intervention control group. Results indicated that TPB variables explained 45.6% of the variance in intent to vaccinate, while increased knowledge about HPV/HPV vaccine contributed only 3.5%. Factors unique to the psychosocial intervention (attitudes, subjective norms, and anticipatory regret) were significant predictors of intent to vaccinate. The intervention model also effectively differentiated between those who did and did not endorse vaccination uptake at 6 months, explaining between 42% and 67% of the variance in vaccination status. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated that the TPB-informed intervention was more effective than an education-only intervention in increasing both intent and vaccination uptake among the catch-up group. The current study provides support for dissemination of TPB-informed interventions across college campuses to increase uptake and reduce HPV-related sequelae among the catch-up group.Item A Comparison of Noncontingent and Synchronous Reinforcement on Task Engagement(2022-04-29) Hardesty, Elizabeth M; Lerman, Dorothea C; Lechago, Sarah A.; Fritz, Jennifer NSynchronous schedules of reinforcement are those in which the onset and offset of a reinforcer are synchronized with the onset and offset of a target behavior. The current study replicated and extended Diaz de Villegas et al. (2020) through the evaluation of a synchronous schedule of reinforcement with a noncontingent schedule of reinforcement by evaluating the on-task behavior (completing math facts) of school-age children. A concurrent-chains preference assessment was then used to determine the preferred schedule of reinforcement. In addition, task preference assessments were conducted prior to and after the reinforcer assessment to determine potential mechanisms of noncontingent reinforcement. Results indicated that while synchronous schedules of reinforcement are more effective at increasing on-task behavior, noncontingent schedules of reinforcement may be more preferred. Additionally, the use of synchronous and noncontingent schedules of reinforcement are insufficient at manipulating the preference of a task item.Item A Job Analysis of Financial Coaches & Case Managers: Enhancing Selection, Performance Management, & Identifying Training Opportunities(2018-05-15) Sampogna, Olaguibel; Milam, Alex; Sublett, LisaThis project studies two positions at a social services agency in the southern region of the U.S. The purpose of the project was to identify the most critical tasks performed by case managers and financial coaches in order to enhance selection procedures and performance evaluations and identify training opportunities. Four subject matter experts were interviewed, and the information gathered was used to create a survey that was administered to the remainder of the subject matter experts. The project depicts the most critical tasks, groups them by categories, and compares their respective degrees of difficulty. The findings suggest that even though both positions do not consider their responsibilities to be very difficult, there is an expressed need for additional training. Selection for these two positions should be based on relevant knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics, rather than past performance of the job.Item A Snapshot; Job Attitudes Within the HR Profession(2019-12-16) Dodd, Angela; Sublett, Lisa; McIntyre, ScottThe purpose of this project was to analyze job attitudes, specifically in the Human Resources (HR) department, using two samples. Sample 1 is comprised of HR employees in an organization located in Houston, Texas. This organization wanted to establish a baseline regarding how HR employees felt about working there. Sample 2 included a broader sample of HR professionals from various organizations, recruited through LinkedIn, who were asked to complete a survey that focused on the areas of interest. Participants in both samples reported their levels of turnover intention, job satisfaction, departmental commitment, distributive justice, perceived coworker support, and perceived supervisor support. Ultimately, results found significant relationships between all variables and turnover intention. Job satisfaction was strongly, negatively predictive of turnover intention, and departmental affective commitment was moderately, negatively predictive of turnover intention. This paper will discuss these areas of focus in depth from a theoretical viewpoint before outlining the results of the surveys from both groups.Item An Analysis of Employee Work Environment: Improving Methods for Engagement, Affective Commitment, and Return-to-Office Strategies(2022-12-07) Egbe, Amaka; Sublett, Lisa; Milam, AlexEmployee engagement and organizational affective commitment are increasingly popular topics, especially with the rise of remote workplaces and hybrid work models. This project focuses on the engagement and commitment levels of employees at a mid-sized software organization. While this organization (hereafter referred to as "The Company") is a global entity, this project focused on its United States branch. After the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, travel for events and on-site client engagements were heavily disrupted, as did their in-person work schedule. Employee engagement and affective organizational commitment were observed utilizing a 33-item survey that included existing measures such as Utrecht's Work Engagement Scale (2004) and the Allen & Meyer (1990) Organizational Commitment Survey. The results gathered from the survey helped to create an informed guide for an interview which provided clarity on employee engagement and commitment in relation to one’s work environment. The results gathered from the survey suggest that frequency of remote work positively correlates with employee engagement, but not with affective commitment. Changes to the frequency of remote work negatively correlate with higher levels of engagement and organizational commitment. There were no significant differences in engagement or commitment with race, but tenure, gender, and age were found to have a significant positive relationship with commitment. There is an additional need for change management initiatives to ease employees into any work format and scheduling shifts. Additionally, when transitioning work schedules or planning return-to-office initiatives, change management processes may be required to ensure that engagement levels do not decrease.Item An Exploration of the Relationship Between Social-Emotional Learning and Office Discipline Referral Frequency(2021-08-04) Finder, Yarden Ran; Schanding, Jr. , G. Thomas; Walther, Christine; Morgan , ValerieHigh rates of student misbehavior within the American public school system are a chronic problem for many public schools. Public schools sometimes address the rising problem of student misbehavior in ineffective, unproductive, and often harmful ways; they punish and exclude students from the academic setting, thus fostering resentment in students who misbehave, wasting school resources, contributing to the “school-to-prison pipeline,” increasing disproportionality, and setting students up for negative long-term outcomes. Furthermore, schools may fail to assess for, identify, and address the skill deficits that lead students to misbehave. The implementation of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) as a component of positive behavior supports, as well as the integration of universal screening for students to determine the risk of future school misbehavior, could help schools address discipline problems more proactively, effectively, and efficiently. The current study sought to examine whether SEL is a predictor of office discipline referral (ODR) frequency by using archival data of teacher ratings of elementary, middle, and high school students’ social-emotional learning skills. The results obtained from the data analyses indicated that SEL competencies predicted ODR frequency in the elementary school, middle school, and high school samples. Taken together with the existing and emerging literature base, these findings suggest that SEL interventions might contribute to decreases in ODR frequency. These findings are encouraging to school psychologists seeking to understand, prevent, and decrease the frequency of ODRs and their negative consequences.Item Associations Among Teacher Identification of Symptomology in the Classroom and Children's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptomology: Potential Influences of Caregiver Childhood Maltreatment(2019-05-07) Patterson, Paige R; Walther, Christine A.P.; Elkins, Sara RChild abuse is a substantial public health problem in the United States, with approximately one in three children experiencing abuse before the age of 18. Studies examining the cycle of violence suggest that when caregivers are abused, their children’s first 12 years of life may bear increased risk for similar abuse. Teachers are well-equipped to notice symptoms of child abuse and to intervene during this critical developmental period. Thus, teacher identification of traumatic symptomology associated with abuse may serve an important preventive purpose and may mitigate risk for children who experience forms of abuse early in life. The present study examined caregiver childhood abuse as a moderator of the association among teacher identification of student PTSD symptomology and actual PTSD symptomology for children at risk for abuse. The current study utilized a sample of children (n = 872) from the consortium for Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect. Teachers were more likely to identify externalizing behaviors compared to caregivers. One interaction was statistically significant, indicating that caregiver childhood abuse moderated the association between teacher identification of child internalizing behaviors and PTSD symptomology severity at age 12. Further simple slope analyses indicated that teachers were more likely to identify child PTSD symptomology if the student’s caregiver experienced childhood maltreatment. Additionally, findings suggested that caregiver childhood maltreatment is not associated with teacher identification of child internalizing and externalizing behaviors and PTSD clinical significance. Further research and teacher training may be needed to better identify child symptomology in the classroom.Item Breastfeeding in the social context: The influence of stereotypes and benevolent sexism(2019-12-04) Zajack-Garcia, Kaitlyn L.; Johnston, Amanda M.; Walther, ChristineDespite providing numerous benefits for both mothers and babies, breastfeeding remains a non-normative means of infant feeding among mothers in the United States. Past research suggests that many women face social obstacles to breastfeeding, such as being too uncomfortable to breastfeed in public, which may hinder the duration of breastfeeding. In a pair of studies, the role of sexism, perception of gendered characteristics, and attitudes toward mothers who breastfeed in private and public were examined. In Study 1, 89 women viewed photos of a woman breastfeeding in a private location, public location while using a cover, or public location without a cover. The participants were then asked to indicate the level of communal and agentic characteristics the target possessed, as well as their attitudes toward her. While no differences in positive attitudes were found between the conditions, participants in the private condition perceived the woman as possessing a higher level of communal characteristics relative to the other groups. Moreover, participants in the public-not covered condition perceived the target at possessing more agentic characteristics than the other groups. In Study 2, 96 mothers were grouped based on their self-reported frequency of engagement in breastfeeding behaviors by location (private, public-covered, public-not covered, and no breastfeeding), and rated their own levels of communal and agentic characteristics. Woman who did not breastfeed at all were found to associate themselves with lower levels of communal characteristics compared to women who breastfed in all locations (private and public). Additionally, women were found to have the most positive attitudes toward the type of location in which they themselves engaged in breastfeeding. Armed with this knowledge, advocates and professionals alike will be more equipped to address these issues, which will ultimately lead to them being more successful in providing support to women for the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding their infants.Item Changes in culture and values among Saudi students' families in the United States, and their impact on the centrality of financial management and purchasing decisions within the family(2019-05-17) Alqasem, Osama; McMullen, Michael; Lucas, Amy; Gladden, Samuel; Short, RickSaudi Arabia and the United States of America have a strong relationship both politically and economically. This is exemplified by the number of Saudi students sent on scholarship to study in the US. Roughly, there are 70 thousands Saudi students enrolled in such scholarships, many of which are accompanied by their wives and kids. Students and their families undergo many changes abroad that are reflected on their overall behaviour. This study aims to investigate changes in culture and values among Saudi students' families in the United States, and their impact on the centrality of financial management and purchasing decisions within the family. A correlational research design was deployed analyzing a three-part questionnaire of 174 snowball-sampled participants. The first part of the questionnaire gathered socio- demographic information, whereas the second and third parts seek the effect of acculturation to American culture on the participants lives and the changes in the financial management roles within the family. The regression analysis results showed that H1a studying in the United States has changed the values of Saudi couples (B = 1.369, p<0.001), H1b Assimilation of American culture has changed the traditional gender roles within Saudi families had (B = 1.158, p<0.001), H2a Adoption of American culture by Saudi students has influenced their financial management practices had (B = 0.112, p<0.001), and H2b Financial management is now a joint obligation between Saudi couples in the United States had (B = -0.156, <0.001). The model assumed a 5% level of significance and 95% confidence interval.Item Charles H. "Chuck" Laubach Collection(2017-12-05) Gratzfeld, Lindsay; Hodges, Adam; Dugre, Neal; Meyers, LaurenThis project details the organization, preservation and digitization of the Charles H. “Chuck” Laubach collection, which includes a process narrative, a detailed finding aid, and a sample selection of digitized sources that were uploaded to the University of Houston-Clear Lake institutional repository. As an employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for 25 years and a Boeing employee for 19 years, Laubach’s contributions to the space program ranged from work with Atlas booster rockets to the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Program. The goal of this project was to contribute a portion to a workable NASA archive that will be beneficial to the historical community, especially for those interested in logistics engineering. This collection explores the importance of logistical engineering in tandem with international contributors to the International Space Station.Item Chrome, Neon, and Cyborgs: The Cyberpunk Genre in the 1980’s United States(2021-12-08) Smith, David J; Hales, Barbara; Hodges, Adam J; Gladden, Samuel L; Sanford, GlennThis project was done to prove the viability of fiction as a crucial source of historical artifacts by focusing on the genre of cyberpunk, a genre localized in the 1980s United States, to show how the cultural anxieties Americans had about the shifting trends in media, military, and economic matters birthed that genre. Research for this topic utilized three different fiction mediums from cyberpunk (film, novel, and tabletop roleplaying game) and combined each selected source from these mediums with primary documents drawn from 1980s news outlets, government addresses and press conferences, economic data from places such as the Federal Reserve, and interviews and memoirs from historical actors. This was all kept in context given by secondary source monographs and articles that cover the various topics of the 1980s that caused the anxieties that birthed cyberpunk as a unique and historically localized genre. The conclusion of this work divorced cyberpunk from post-1980s stories that claim that genre. In addition, the conclusion held that fiction has a critical place as historical artifact needed to gain as complete a record of humanity as possible, and that cyberpunk is crucial to understanding 1980s America in particular.Item Comparison of Texas and Finnish Education Systems(2020-05-29) Ray, Sara; Curtis , Maria; Lucas, AmyThe Finnish education system is widely considered to be one of the best in the world (Chung, 2019). Educators from many countries have examined Finland’s system to determine what makes it so successful (Nieme et al., 2012). As Finland continues to maintain a high standard, Texas has steadily fallen in rank in the United States and requires much improvement (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2016). After attending courses at the University of Helsinki in Finland to learn more about the Finnish education system, my experience suggested many areas in which Texas could improve to achieve a more successful education system for its students and teachers. To test this hypothesis, I conducted surveys of Texas and Finnish teachers. I compared the results to the latest data of student satisfaction surveys taken by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED). After obtaining results from sixty-nine teachers, I concluded that there is a significant difference between the two locations when comparing teacher education levels and the implementation of standardized testing. As shown in my analysis, Finnish teachers obtain higher education levels. This is considered to be one of the main reasons for Finland’s successful education system (Juusola & Räihä, 2018). Another factor shown from the data is the importance of the absence of standardized testing of Finnish students. The Finnish students benefit from the decision to end high-stakes standardized tests. This policy was implemented in the 1970s after Finland went through significant education reform. In this thesis, I assert that this data indicates that two significant educational changes should be undertaken in Texas. The Texas Education Agency should require higher quality education for Texas teachers and eliminate the administration of high-stakes standardized tests.Item Creating belonging for minority university students through multicultural organizations(2019-05-14) Beard, Chelsea Lauren; Kovic, Christine; Dawit, WolduThis study explores how minority students who participate in multi-cultural student organizations find belonging on their university campuses. Using focus groups from students across the University of Houston system and institutional demographic information, the results from this study demonstrate that students believe that their involvement with a multicultural student organization helped them to find belonging at the university and that belonging extends to other parts of a student’s identity besides race or ethnicity. It also found that difficulties for many of these students lie within their university's administration and representation in faculty, as well as the vocalization from their institutions to youth and new students about the opportunities on campus and diverse groups available to help them transition from high school to college. The research concludes that while the University of Houston has a minority-majority populations in terms of race and ethnicity, if would benefit from evaluating ways to create belonging in an intersectional manner, connecting all parts of a student to campus.Item Cultural Competence for Health Care Providers: Undocumented Immigrant Latino/a Patients(2022-08-05) Zare, Sheila; Lucas, Amy; Walther, ChristineThe United States’ relationship with immigrants is complicated. Economically the country utilizes the labor and services many immigrants provide at an unethically reduced cost. Historically labor has been imported from other countries, with a heavy focus on Latin America in recent years, and foreign policy has been implemented to augment this approach. However, politically immigrants are often used as scapegoats for unemployment and crime, including human trafficking. Unfortunately, many Latino/a undocumented immigrants are forced into situations where their standard of living directly impacts their health. In the United States, healthcare is inaccessible to undocumented immigrants regardless of the cause of their ailments. Most of the United States has failed to address access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants, and the health care system has become so privatized that compassionate care and acute health services, which have access delegated by local governments, are the only option for undocumented immigrants. The purpose of this project is not to prove that policy can be implemented to improve access to healthcare, nor is it to prove that the undocumented population is a burden to the system. Instead, it will focus on educating individual providers about how to better assess undocumented patients by understanding their culture and concerns. This project will present a handout informing providers of cultural considerations that help build rapport with Latino/a immigrant patients. It also includes an overview of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition Text Revision (DSM-V-TR, APA, 2022) components that focus on cultural assessment.Item Cultural Differences in Heart Rate Variability and Stress Response(2022-08-04) Rodriguez, Hannah Renee; Moreno, Georgina; Rios, DesdamonaIt is well established that cultural values influence stress, however, very little research has investigated the psychophysiological underpinnings of these processes. The current study investigated whether differences due to individualist and collectivist culture traits (i.e., independence, interdependence) exist in psychophysiological processing (i.e., heart rate variability) and during the stress response. Aim 1 investigated whether there was a difference in resting heart rate and resting heart rate variability measurements between individualist and collectivist orientations. It was hypothesized that collectivists would display a decrease in heart rate variability measurements compared to their individualistic counterparts. Aim 2 investigated if there was a difference in the heart rate variability measurements between individualists and collectivists during an acute stressor, the Trier Social Stress Test. It was hypothesized that, when presented with an acute stressor, collectivists would display a decrease in heart rate variability. A sample of 28 healthy adults were included in these analyses. Participants completed the Self-Construal Scale (SCS) and were categorized into collectivist (N=11) or individualist (N=14) groups based on their scores. Beats-per-minute recordings were taken during a ten-minute baseline period prior to completion of the stressor and taken throughout the duration of the stressor. A significant difference was found between collectivist and individualist orientations at rest (i.e., during baseline measurements) for average heart rate and average R-R interval, with collectivists having higher heart rates but smaller R-R intervals as compared to individualists. A significant difference was also found between collectivist and individualist orientations for average heart rate and average R-R intervals during the acute stressor, however, there was no interaction between collectivistic/individualistic orientation and stress. These results suggest that cultural constructs of individualism and collectivism may affect heart rate and R-R intervals during resting and stressed conditions. This work highlights the importance of better understanding the effect of culture on psychophysiological processes within an individual.Item Dearest Rhia(2022-05-06) Francey, Sophie Mariah; Brims, Michael C; Klyueva, AnnaDearest Rhia is an autoethnographic documentary film that explores whether humans have psychic abilities. It places the researcher (myself) as the subject of this autoethnographic documentary, defined as a type of self-narrative that situates the self in a social framework (Narayan, 2006). The multidisciplinary character of this investigation focuses on the topic of spiritual awakening of psychic abilities. Researchers use the autoethnographic study approach to examine subjectiveness and personal experiences, seeing the self as “another” while highlighting concerns (Strang, 2019). The uniqueness of this project is expressed through the choice of topic (spiritual awakening of psychic abilities) and method of distribution (TikTok miniseries). The social media application TikTok has brought virality to many topics, including spirituality. With the increased awareness of spirituality and bringing like-minded individuals together, many TikTok influencers believe the theory that all humans have psychic abilities. These spiritual influencers will share this theory with their followers via TikTok videos. As the researcher, I was interested in learning if I, myself, had psychic abilities because I had been told in previous psychic readings that I have these abilities, or was I influenced by the TikTok algorithm to believe I have psychic abilities? The purpose of Dearest Rhia is to explore and self-reflect if I, Sophie Mariah Francey, have psychic abilities, or am I only being highly influenced by media (and the media’s influencers) promoting the theory that humans have psychic abilities? This autoethnographic documentary uses storytelling, graphics, research, training courses, experimentation, and expert interviews to accomplish its task.Item Destruction of "Unworthy Lives": Eugenics and Medical Discourse in Weimar and Third Reich CinemaBujnoch, Patricia; Hales, Barbara; Howard, AngelaThis project tracks the eugenic discourse of the 1920s through the Nazi era, and analyzes the eugenic links within mainstream Weimar and Nazi films. This thesis argues that M (1931), La Habanera (1937), and Ich Klage An (I Accuse) (1941) depict the “invisible danger” of race and disease, thereby reflecting the eugenic concepts of the Weimar and Nazi periods. Through an analysis of the eugenic links within each film presented here, I demonstrate how exclusionary ideologies led to the destruction of “unworthy lives.” This thesis begins with a discussion of the historical context of eugenics, illuminating the historiography of eugenics, how it progressed, and how it connects to late Weimar and Nazi films. An exploration of Lang’s M provides an example of nature over nurture and how an identification of the “dangerous other” shapes a feeling of powerlessness in Weimar, Germany. An analysis of La Habanera as a cautionary tales reveals a disease narrative that connects to laws protecting the “purity” of German blood. An examination of Ich Klage An illuminates a film that paves the way for the T-4 program, and later, mass murder under the guise of war. This thesis builds on the extensive secondary literature which documents the exclusionary measures and unprecedented scale of mass murder under the authority of the Nazis (The Final Solution). The power of film in Germany’s Weimar and Nazi eras surpassed a melodramatic escape. This thesis highlights this underemphasized aspect in the historiography of the Hitler and the Nazi regime: eugenic discourse and the power of film as propaganda to further Nazi goals.Item Development and Evaluation of a Decision-Making Tool for Evaluating and Selecting Prompting Strategies(2020-05-27) Cowan, Landon Scott; Lerman, Dorothea C; Fritz, Jennifer N; Lechago, Sarah AAn extensive literature has demonstrated the successful application of various response prompts and prompt-fading strategies for teaching students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. However, few practical resources exist to guide special-education teachers and clinicians in the evaluation and selection of a prompting strategy for a given student and a targeted skill. Across two experiments, we used a multiple baseline across participants design to develop and evaluate a decision-making tool to train 11 special-education teachers and 5 graduate students to evaluate and select appropriate prompting strategies for a variety of students and skills. The graduate students also implemented their selected prompting strategy in brief teaching sessions. Results indicated that the self-instructional manual was effective for improving their evaluation, selection, and implementation of appropriate prompting strategies. Social validity data collected from all participants suggested that they found the manual helpful. Results contribute to the literature on the development of decision-making tools to guide teachers and clinicians in the selection of interventions to use with their students.Item Dialecticism, Collectivism, and Stereotype Change(2022-12-01) Fick, Virginia Lawrence; Johnston, Amanda; Moreno, GeorginaThis study explores the relationship between cultural variables, individualism, collectivism, and dialecticism, with the tendency to modify initial beliefs (i.e., stereotypes) after being presented with contradictory information. Using the Singelis et al. (1995) Individualism and Collectivism Scale and the Spencer-Rodgers et al. (2015) Dialectical Self Scale, as well as a Stereotyping Questionnaire adapted from the research of Spencer-Rodgers et al. (2007), this study explores this relationship in three different racial/ethnic cultures within the United States, as these populations theoretically differ on these cultural variables. It was hypothesized that participants identifying as Asian (a population theoretically relatively high on dialecticism and collectivism) will be more likely to adjust their initial beliefs about a novel social group than participants identifying as Latinx (theoretically high in collectivism, low in dialecticism) or White non-Latinx (theoretically low in both collectivism and dialecticism). I found support for the concept that cultural variables, independent of race or ethnicity, correlate with stereotype change, although I did not find support for the hypothesis that these cultural groups would differ in predictable ways according to the cultural constructs in question. This study attempts to address the lack of research about the influence of cultural variables on stereotyping processes, as well as compensate for the lack of cross-cultural studies which allow for the generalization of findings beyond Westernized, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (W.E.I.R.D) settings.Item Do wraparound services mediate academic achievement for "at risk” Latinx youth?(2019-12-19) Hiett, Brittany; Rios, Desdamona; Lucas, AmyMaslow's hierarchy of needs theory provides the framework to examining the academic outcomes of at-risk students at a Latinx-serving Title 1 charter school in Houston, Texas which models itself as a Full Service Community School (FSCS). In this nonexperimental study, quantitative data was collected from student records and reports at the charter school and consolidated into a comprehensive database by a team of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Houston Clear Lake (UHCL), under the supervision of the principal investigator, Dr. Desdamona Rios. Chi square and regression analyses were run to test six measures of academic achievement, including grade point averages (GPA) and performances on standardized tests, so as to assess the impact wraparound services have on mediating risk factors for students at this school. Findings indicate that gender, at-risk status, being an English Language Learner (ELL), and participating in In-School Programs (ISP) most significantly predicted academic outcomes on these measures. This study contributes to the growing literature on FSCSs and concludes that the role these schools have in providing vital resources to at-risk students, who are often lacking certain basic needs, is critical to their success in their academics.