You belong here: teachers' perspective on incorporating a culturally responsive approach to increase engagement for students of color in advance placement courses
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board, a nonprofit organization that offers college-level curriculum and examinations to high school students. Increasing numbers of high school students across America take AP courses. Despite the increasing popularity of the AP curriculum, many Black, Hispanic, or low-income students are historically underrepresented in these courses. Students of color are more likely to not enroll in AP courses, not receive a passing score, or become disengaged and drop out, thereby missing out on the academic benefits that AP courses can provide. This qualitative research study sought to examine and understand whether culturally responsive pedagogy can increase engagement among students of color in high school AP courses. Using a two-cycle action plan, qualitative data were collected through interviews and observations to understand teacher attitudes, behaviors, challenges, and issues concerning engagement among students of color. An action research plan was developed and implemented to examine whether culturally responsive teaching activities can increase the engagement of students of color in the classroom. The study concludes that teachers who employ culturally responsive practices that incorporate family and cultural artifacts, socially relevant issues, counter-narrative storytelling, and creative self-expression can positively influence Black and Brown student engagement and performance in the classroom. This study demonstrates that the teacher is the controlling factor when it comes to engaging students of color in the classroom. When a teacher makes a durable, proactive commitment to employing culturally responsive curriculum, activities, and behaviors to connect with disengaged students of color, then trust, engagement, and learning occurs. --Author's abstract
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".