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Parent-school involvement and school performance: Mediated pathways among socioeconomically comparable African American and Euro-American families.

NE Hill… - Journal of Educational Psychology; Journal of …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
... Letter Correspondence scale was used to assess reading, and the Quantitative Concepts scale
was used ... and assessed the extent to which parents were involved in school activities. ... The
Teacher's Perception of Parent's Value of Education (Perceived Value for Education) scale ...

School readiness and later achievement.

GJ Duncan, CJ Dowsett, A Claessens… - Developmental …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... Finally, we assessed whether the predictive power of school readiness components differs by
gender ... academic, attention, and socioemotional skills are associated with later school achievement. ...
dren's informal, intuitive knowledge of early language and math concepts plays an ...

Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The roles of ethnicity and family income.

NE Hill - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... Enforcement Hostile control Inconsistent discipline Withdrawal Involvement1 Parent initiated
Teacher initiated Parental home involvement ... A/?2 = .07, AF(5, 90) = 1.79, p < .12, for quantitative
concepts, and A ... PARENTING, SOCIALIZATION, AND SCHOOL READINESS les •d 'Z ...

Children

S Kontos, C Howes, M Shinn… - Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform
a new search. Title: Children's Experiences in Family Child Care and Relative
Care as a Function of Family Income and Ethnicity. ...

Parent academic involvement as related to school behavior, achievement, and aspirations: Demographic variations across adolescence

NE Hill, DR Castellino, JE Lansford… - Child …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... Elementary school age aggressive behavior is related to school dropout at 12th ... not been
empirically tested longitudinally, previous research suggests that parent academic involvement ...
School behavior, achievement, and career aspirations, and parents' roles in shaping these ...

Parental conceptions of school readiness: Relation to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and children's skills

OA Barbarin, D Early, R Clifford… - Early Education and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Family literacy: Parent and child interactions. ... of facts such as letters, numbers, and parts of the
body and undervalue inference and higher order thinking skills in their conceptions of readiness ...
1993. Public school kindergarten teachers' views on children's readiness for school. ...

The relation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement.

KR White - Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Bulletin, 1982 - psycnet.apa.org
... to such factors as size of family, educational aspi- rations, ethnicity, mobility, presence of ... Levine,
Stephenson, and Mares (1973) found a cor- relation of .865 between composite ... between SES
and Stanford Achievement Test scores among suburban elementary school stu- dents ...

Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: A meta-analytic review of research

SR Sirin - Review of educational research, 2005 - rer.sagepub.com
... are more likely to live in low-income households or in sin- gle parent families; their ... Further, it was
designed to examine how the SES–achievement relation is moderated by (a ... unit of analysis; and
(b) student characteristics, such as grade level, minority status, and school location ...

The Family-School Partnership: An Opportunity to Promote the Learning Competence of All Students.

SL Christenson - School Psychology Quarterly, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
... ity and responsiveness to families' needs and desires for their children's school- ing experiences. ...
to the status-oriented family issues such as socioeconomic status, parental education, and ...
However, the psychological aspects, including parents' role conceptions, sense of self ...

Kindergarten teachers' views of children's readiness for school

HL Lin, FR Lawrence… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003 - Elsevier
... Guidelines from the district, parental demands, and teachers in grades 1 and above placed
constraints on ... on social communication and its prerequisites (being non-disruptive), are particularly
salient in teachers' conceptions of readiness for school, especially when ...

Family influences on school achievement in low-income, African American children.

TG Halle, B Kurtz-Costes… - Journal of Educational …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
... Page 7. FAMILY AND SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT 533 ... We now address our final research
question: Do children's academic self-concepts serve as a mediator for the relation
between parental beliefs and child achieve- ment outcomes? ...

The teacher-child relationship and children's early school adjustment

SH Birch… - Journal of school psychology, 1997 - Elsevier
... In each classroom, at least 80% of the children had written parental consent to ... Quantitative
Language (which assesses the child's understanding of basic quantitative concepts that are ... and
school avoidance desires, and teachers' reports of various school adjustment outcome ...

Socioeconomic status, parental investments, and the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of low-income children from immigrant and native households

RS Mistry, JC Biesanz, N Chien, C Howes… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... In the current study, we investigated the relations among indicators of socioeconomic status,
parental investments, and ... the prior research on immigrant children focuses on older children
(ie, school-age), is ... More specifically, we: (a) assessed the relation of SES – a composite of ...

Associations between perceived parent behaviors and middle school student fruit and vegetable consumption

EM Young, SW Fors… - Journal of nutrition education and …, 2004 - Elsevier
... perceived parent control over the child's eating situation or the same parenting concepts of the ...
Marcus AM,Tisne S. Perception of maternal behavior by elementary school children of alcoholic
mothers. ... Schaefer ES.Children's reports of parental behavior:an inventory.Child Dev. ...

Promoting Academic and Social‐Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start REDI Program

…, C Blair, KE Nelson, S Gill - Child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... integrated with the core curriculum but were “added on” to enhance the acquisition of specific
skill concepts. ... Leiter–R Assessor Report (Roid & Miller, 1997) to assess task orientation at school
(Smith-Donald ... Attention problems: Parent, −.21, −.49, −.22, .20, .54, .10, −.16, −.20, .21, ...

Predicting children's competence in the early school years: A meta-analytic review

KM La Paro… - Review of Educational Research, 2000 - rer.sagepub.com
... of the child are typically examined through the use of teacher or parent checklists or ... sidered under
the general rubric of social/behavioral aspects of development, are related to a ... possible, that
the studies sam- pled would reflect the larger literature on school readiness as well ...

[PDF] Developmental indicators for the assessment of learning

C Mardell-Czudnowski… - Monterey, CA: American …, 1998 - students.uwsp.edu
... related concepts--ability, development, intelligence, school readiness--and state that the test
is ... which is a composite formed from the Motor, Language, and Concepts scores. ... geographical
region, and parental education (a proxy for socioeconomic status). A separate sample ...

Schools, achievement, and inequality: A seasonal perspective

KL Alexander, DR Entwisle… - … Evaluation and Policy …, 2001 - epa.sagepub.com
... information (race/ ethnicity and sex) from school records, and data on family socioeconomic
standing obtained from parent interviews and school records. ... used: Reading Comprehension
(CAT-V: 20 items in the fall of first grade), and Math Concepts and Applications ...

Socioeconomic status and child development

RH Bradley… - Annual review of psychology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
... Most widely used measures of SES only partially map onto the concepts of capital ... found evidence
of both similarities and differences in their connections to school achievement among 6 ... analyses
have indicated that the relations for family income and parental education depend ...

Parent-reported language skills in relation to otitis media during the first 3 years of life

HM Feldman, CA Dollaghan… - Journal of speech, …, 2003 - jslhr.highwire.org
... and Communication We assessed language skills using three comprehen- sive parent-report
measures ... of affirmative answers to a list of 12 questions about language concepts and use, such ...
individuals who had college or technical school education beyond high school but did ...

Early childhood computer experience and cognitive and motor development

X Li… - Pediatrics, 2004 - pediatricsdigest.mobi
... The measure of frequency use was based solely on parental report in a very general ... SES,
socioeconomic status • Boehm-3 Preschool, Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, Third Edition
Preschool ... Young Children's Access to Computers in the Home and at School in 1999 and 2000 ...

A mediational model of the association between socioeconomic status and three-year-old language abilities: The role of parenting factors

T Raviv, M Kessenich… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004 - Elsevier
... that relate to aspects of the physical environment as well as parent–child interaction style. ... of the
Bracken were administered to assess children's knowledge of basic concepts such as ... The
split-half reliability for the School Readiness Composite subscales is .93, and test–retest ...

[BOOK] Prepared for Kindergarten: What Does" readiness" Mean?

DJ Ackerman, WS Barnett… - 2005 - education.ok.gov
... Teachers' Conceptions of Readiness ... to children, can be monitored and adjusted according to
students' needs and can facilitate parental involvement, Research ... California and Florida found
that participation in a center-based program increased the school readiness of children ...

Off with Hollingshead: Socioeconomic resources, parenting, and child development

GJ Duncan… - Socioeconomic status, parenting, …, 2003 - books.google.com
... We first review conceptions of economic resources and then turn to education and ... a standard
deviation increase on a test of young children's academic school readiness and a ... Menaghan,
1994) and modeled reciprocal effects of job characteristics on parental values, cognitive ...

Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries

S Grantham-McGregor, YB Cheung, S Cueto… - The Lancet, 2007 - Elsevier
... Furthermore, improved parental education, particularly of mothers, is related to reduced fertility,
[2] and [3] and ... the use of poverty and stunting as indicators, we did regression analyses of the
relation between the percentage of children completing primary school 44 and ...

Social relationships and school readiness

AJ Mashburn… - Early Education and Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Parent involvement is characterized by the amount and quality of communi- cation, mutual support,
reciprocity, and ... is also available that measures reliably two of the dimensions of teach- er–child
relationship—conflict and ... SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND SCHOOL READINESS ...

Social correlates of emergent literacy

BM Phillips - The science of reading: A handbook, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... Notably, these school readiness measures were significant predictors of performance on an
achievement test at age ... and Martin (2002) and DeBaryshe and Binder (1994) showed that parental
beliefs about ... 3- and 4-year-old children's ability to write their names, concepts of print ...

[BOOK] Assessing readiness

SJ Meisels… - 1998 - ciera.org
... Bellisimo, Y., Sacks, CH, & Mergendoller, JR (1995). Changes over time in kindergarten holding
out: Parent and school contexts. ... Paths to school readiness: An in-depth look at three early
childhood programs. ... Love, JM (1995). Conception of readiness for ECLS and HSLS. ...

[BOOK] School readiness

…, Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth - 2007 - aracy.org.au
... Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) • PEDS is a tool for eliciting parental
concerns ... Development Index (AEDI) The AEDI is a tool that measures school readiness as a
community population level. • It allows exploration of developmental concepts at a ...

[PDF] … the predictive validity of first grade teacher ratings and reading-related tests on third grade levels of reading skills in young children exposed to poverty

SA Hecht… - School Psychology Review, 2001 - fatih.edu.tr
... We were able to obtain parental reports of monthly income and number of people liv- ing ... was
taken from his or her classroom to a quiet location in the school where the ... Auditory Blending Test
(1959), Yopp- Singer Segmentation Test (Yopp, 1988), and The Concepts About Print ...

The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary of children from low‐income families: The early window project

JC Wright, AC Huston, KC Murphy… - Child …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... characteristics of the families (parent education, occupation, family structure, pri- mary language)
were ascertained during the parent interviews at each ... General school readiness was as- sessed
by the School Readiness Scale of the Bracken Basic Concepts Scales (Bracken ...

Transitional first-grade referrals: An analysis of school-related factors and children's characteristics.

…, S Neuharth-Pritchett - Journal of Educational …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... are contextual, school-related factors (ie, teacher instructional beliefs and parental school
involvement) previ ... develop- ment, and appropriate instruction might influence teachers'
conceptions of readiness ... beliefs about (a) the development of readiness for school (Graue, 1993 ...

Emotional competence and early school adjustment: A study of preschoolers at risk

A Shields, S Dickstein, R Seifer… - Early Education and …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... lived with other relatives; and 1 child lived with a single-parent father (2 ... item questionnaire was
developed for this study to assess preschoolers' global school adjustment. ... Thus, items assessed
children's early academic skills, including reading readiness, numbers and counting ...

Children's social and scholastic lives in kindergarten: Related spheres of influence?

GW Ladd, SH Birch… - Child development, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
... Thus, using the concepts out- lined in this model, it is possible to ... Entry factors attributable to
pre-grade school en- vironments include children's formative or rearing experiences (eg, preschool
experience) and family sociodemographic backgrounds (eg, parent educa- tion ...

School readiness among urban children with asthma

JS Halterman, G Montes, CA Aligne… - Ambulatory …, 2001 - Elsevier
... hypothesis is that young children with significant asthma have fewer exposures to these concepts. ...
27 Thus, it is likely that these parent-reported observations correlate with the child's ... al., The impact
of bronchial asthma on school attendance and performance, J School Health 40 ...

Prediction of children's academic competence from their effortful control, relationships, and classroom participation.

C Valiente, K Lemery-Chalfant… - Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
... that being sensitive and not disruptive represented important aspects of academic readiness
(Lewit & ... the scale have good discriminant validity, and there is evidence that parent-reported
EC ... This scale has been used often in studies with elementary school children, and scores ...

Kindergarten oral language skill: A key variable in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status

RE Durham, G Farkas, CS Hammer… - Research in Social …, 2007 - Elsevier
... (1983) argued that parental occupational demands and ... That is, Bernstein found that middle-class
parents employed more abstract concepts, and more ... stimulation for determining language
performance, and the importance of early language performance for school readiness. ...

[BOOK] Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions

AP Carnevale, SJ Rose… - 2003 - tcf.org
... socioeconomic status of the family on the basis of reported income and parental education and ...
decisions is to judge applicants on the basis of their high school achievements. ... At the 1999 College
Board meetings, the attendees identified nine mission-related perspectives, many ...

The school entry gap: Socioeconomic, family, and health factors associated with children's school readiness to learn

MJ PhD… - Early Education and Development, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... vocabulary comprehension and production): The strongest and most direct relationship emerged
at ... that school readiness follows the expected gradient with respect to parent education and ... School
readiness in this study was measured by kindergarten teachers' reports collected ...

Predicting kindergarten academic skills: Interactions among child care, maternal education, and family literacy environments

K Christian, FJ Morrison… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998 - Elsevier
... Maccoby, EE & Martin, JA (1983). Socialization in the context of the family: Parent-child inter-
action. ... (1990). Five million children. New York: School of Public Health, Columbia University. ...
Tanaka, JS (1993). Multifaceted conception of fit in structural equation models. ...

First grade school readiness of former child participants in a South Carolina replication of the Parent-Child Home Program

P Levenstein, S Levenstein… - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2002 - Elsevier
... These concepts have been underlined by the recent observation, “The pre-preschool child learns ...
of other family based interventions have seemed to support the parent–child reading ... The
longitudinal study presented here focuses on the first grade school readiness, as shown ...

A multivariate examination of parent involvement and the social and academic competencies of urban kindergarten children

C McWayne, J Fantuzzo… - Psychology in the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... low levels of direct school contact and increased inhibited involvement were related to children's ...
stressors as contextual barriers to involvement will support the utility of parent involvement
constructs in understanding children's risk and protection as they enter school. ...

A model of home learning environment and social risk factors in relation to children's emergent literacy and social outcomes

…, M Abbott-Shim, F McCarty, S Franze - Early Childhood …, 2005 - Elsevier
... the centrality of these domains to the larger construct of school readiness is underscored. ... and
language development consisted of 10 items from the FACES Parent Interview focusing on speech
development, alphabet and name recognition, print concepts, and writing ...

“Come and Take a Walk”: Listening to Early Head Start Parents on School-Readiness as a Matter of Child, Family, and Community Health

CL McAllister, PC Wilson, BL Green… - Journal …, 2005 - ajph.aphapublications.org
... Parents' conception of school-readiness in the present study supported new research and policy ...
staff, and families of Family Foundations Early Head Start, and to the parent and community ...
peer-play interactions in the family context and dimensions of school readiness for low ...

Children in motion: School transfers and elementary school performance

KL Alexander, DR Entwisle… - The Journal of …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
... parent of an exiter had some postsecondary education; the typ- ical parent of frequent ... bCAT-M
is the mathematics concepts and applications subtest from the California Achievement Test ... Table
4,Estimated Effects of School Moves on Performance Outcomes Toward the End of ...

[PDF] School readiness assessment

KL Maxwell… - … the journal: Young children on the web, 2004 - journal.naeyc.org
... for children that age, not whether the child is learning particular concepts covered in a ... that receives
food stamps or temporary assistance; living in a single parent home; having ... multiple years of
research and discussion, a common definition of school readiness remains elusive ...

Early childhood cultural capital, parental habitus, and teachers' perceptions

SA Dumais - Poetics, 2006 - Elsevier
... events and participation in arts classes, which do seem to fit Bourdieu's conception of cultural ...
cultural experiences, where the parent feels comfortable and interested in the school environment,
and ... Results: the effects of cultural capital and parental habitus on first grade teachers ...

Analogical reasoning and giftedness: A comparison between identified gifted and nonidentified children

EJ Caropreso… - The Journal of Educational Research, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
... think- ing involves the ability to learn and apply new kinds of concepts as well as new concepts
from familiar categories. ... Procedures Parental permission was secured for children par- ticipating
in the investigation. ... Testing took place in each child's preschool or school classroom ...

… achievement: a multivariate analysis of nutritional, intellectual, socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, and demographic variables in Chilean school-age children

DM Ivanovic, HT Pérez, MG Olivares, NS Díaz… - Nutrition, 2004 - Elsevier
... a result, genetic and environmental factors such as a child's IQ, maternal and paternal IQs,
nutritional ... [30] and [31] The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary ...
positively and significantly associated with SA at the onset of high school and learning ...

Childhood overweight and academic performance: national study of kindergartners and first-graders

A Datar, R Sturm… - Obesity, 2004 - nature.com
... (2001) Weight status, parent reaction, and self-concept in five-year-old girls. ... (2001) School
attendance and school performance: a ... Mechanisms of Disease: pathophysiological concepts
of stroke in hemodynamic risk zones???do hypoperfusion and embolism interact? ...

The effects of socioeconomic status, race, and parenting on language development in early childhood.

EP Pungello, IU Iruka, AM Dotterer… - Developmental …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
... may have important implications for programs aimed at enhancing the school readiness of children ...
explore whether SES and race moderate the relations between these parent–child proximal ...
children ask children to name common objects (eg, ball), use concepts that describe ...

From Rhetoric to Reality: The Case for High-Quality Compensatory Prekindergarten Program

S Neuman - Phi Delta Kappan, 2003 - questia.com
... prekindergarten programs that acknowledge that many children do not enter school adequately
prepared. ... These concepts were revisited throughout the morning in storybook reading, play, songs ...
variable for other risk factors, including mother's education, single parent in the ...

Mother-child relationships, teacher-child relationships, and school outcomes in preschool and kindergarten

RC Pianta, SL Nimetz… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1997 - Elsevier
... Ball, R., & Pianta, RC (1993). Maternal social support as a predictor of parental competence. ... The
teacher-child relationship and children's early school adjustment. Journal of School Psychology,
35, 61-80. ... Boehm test of basic concepts. New York: Teachers College Press. ...

The effects of family, school, and classroom ecologies on changes in children's social competence and emotional and behavioral problems in first grade.

WL Hoglund… - Developmental Psychology, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
... children's in-school behaviors in the context of school- and classroom-related stressors. ... Children
without parental consent were supervised by research assistants in a different room and ... assessed
from teacher reports of children's behaviors on the Early School Behavior Rating ...

Links between parenting styles, parent–child academic interaction, parentschool interaction, and early academic skills and social behaviors in young children of …

JL Roopnarine, A Krishnakumar… - Early Childhood …, 2006 - Elsevier
... Because there are differences in conceptions of and levels of investment in academic ... immigrants
and European Americans; Parmar & Harkness, 2004) and parent-initiated school ... Lopez, 2001,
for a discussion), these variables may influence school readiness and achievement ...

Who reads to young children?: Identifying predictors of family reading activities

DJ Yarosz… - Reading Psychology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... abilities (such as language use, writ- ing, linguistic awareness, and print concepts) and that ...
Reading books with children: The me- chanics of parental influence on children's reading ... Social
indicators predic- tive of school success: Linking health and social information available ...

Maternal perceptions of competence and children's academic adjustment: Longitudinal relations across early elementary school

SM Bouffard… - Social Psychology of Education, 2005 - Springer
... the two scales are as follows: for the Sound-Letter Correspondence subscale, Cronbach's alpha=
0.84 and for the Quantitative Concepts subscale, Cronbach's ... In order to assess children's academic
achievement, school records were consulted, with parental permission, to ...

Does the content of mothers' verbal stimulation explain differences in children's development of verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills?

KE Smith, SH Landry… - Journal of School Psychology, 2000 - Elsevier
... that are measured in standardized cognitive tests and are predictive of school performance. ...
nonverbal input (eg, demonstrations), these children may more effectively learn nonverbal
concepts such as ... The parent may be providing this link in their conversation though the child's ...

Relations among emergent literacy skills, behavior problems, and social competence in preschool children from low-and middle-income backgrounds

CJ Lonigan, BG Bloomfield, JL Anthony… - Topics in Early …, 1999 - tec.sagepub.com
... Poor school readiness at the start of first grade predicts behavioral and emotional problems at
the end of the school year, and ... In our own previous work, however, we have found a significant
association between parent-reported im- pulsivity and attention problems and ...

Measuring school readiness: Conceptual and practical considerations

KL Snow - Early Education and Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... aspects of classification, ser- iation, number, spatial relations, and time; IV) cognitive abilities
related to academic achievement and child development; V) social and emotional development
related to early ... In contrast, parental views of school readiness differ dramatically ...

[PDF] The social and emotional foundations of school readiness

RA Thompson… - Social and emotional health in early …, 2007 - prek-now.org
... the rich meaning inherent in how older people use these concepts. Even so, it is apparent that ...
influences of the amount or quality of child care, and the significance of the parent-child ... First grade
classroom behavior: Its short- and long-term consequences for school performance. ...

[PDF] The Early Development Instrument: A population-based measure for communities

M Janus, S Brinkman, E Duku… - A handbook on …, 2007 - netsvic.org.au
... a fairly uniform background from which to assess their students in comparison with a standard
of what levels of ability constitute 'school readiness to learn'. Given the multiethnic composition
of Canadian society, parent respondents would lack such uniform conceptions. ...

Relations between socio‐cultural factors, the home literacy environment and children's literacy development in the first years of primary education

R Van Steensel - Journal of Research in Reading, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... of evidence from previous research, questions were included on the occurrence of six
parent–child (or ... In those cases in which the test was not part of the school's standard assessment ...
In addition to the Concepts Test, an observation form was developed, focusing on emergent ...

Preschool teachers' beliefs about appropriate early literacy and mathematics education for low-and middle-socioeconomic status children

JS Lee… - Early Education and Development, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... The topics depicted in these vignettes included (a) the purpose of preschool education; (b)
preschoolers' readiness for academics ... Engaging the children in literacy-related activities is
important…. ... If you're going to come with this negativity of that, 'It's not school, it's not academics ...

An integrative model for the study of developmental competencies in minority children

CG Coll, K Crnic, G Lamberty, BH Wasik… - Child …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
... Hirschfeld (1995) has demonstrated that by the end of their grade school years children expect ...
For ex- ample, Kohn (1977) suggests that social class variables influence parental values and
child ... As in the concepts of social class and race, ethnic identification for the most part ...

Curriculum and assessment considerations for young children from culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse backgrounds

LM Espinosa - Psychology in the Schools, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... ent curriculum, rich, responsive language interactions, and opportunities for meaningful parent
involvement (Espinosa ... language and provide opportunities for children to express symbolic
concepts through speech. ... A curriculum that includes school-related skills and knowledge. ...

Grade retention and school adjustment: An explanatory analysis

AJ Reynolds - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992 - epa.sagepub.com
... Parent questionnaires were used to obtain data on, among other things, family background ...
Consistent with conceptions of school learning (Bloom, 1976; Carroll, 1963) and early school ...
as fam- ily background, sex, school SES, and race; 2. School-readiness attributes, including ...

School adjustment in the early grades: Toward an integrated model of neighborhood, parental, and child processes

SM Nettles, MOB Caughy… - Review of Educational …, 2008 - rer.sagepub.com
... as learning experiences outside the home), did not mediate neighborhood effects on school
readiness. ... based on five such pathways: cognitive advantage, family support, school support,
social ... Eligibility for CPC services, which include parental involvement, family support, and ...

Preventing conduct problems, promoting social competence: A parent and teacher training partnership in Head Start

C Webster-Stratton, MJ Reid… - Journal of Clinical Child …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... The program was an abbreviated version of our validated Advance and School Incredible Years
training ... Topics included (a) review of child-directed play concepts; (b) facilitating children's
friendships and ... Family service workers (N = 13) were trained as parent group leaders. ...

[BOOK] Improving literacy in America: Guidelines from research

FJ Morrison, HJ Bachman… - 2005 - books.google.com
... 12 Introduction Exosystems School District and School Board Parent Workplace Mass Media
Macro- System ... For ex- ample, if administrators of a school district hold the belief that the ... While
these concepts of ecological systems, distal and proximal factors, and mediation may ...

Poverty and educational achievement: why do children from low-income families tend to do less well at school?

A West - Benefits, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
... day care was explicitly concerned with the attainment of basic cognitive concepts, and in ...
References Allen, R. (2007) 'Allocating pupils to their nearest secondary school: the consequences
for ... Blow, L., Goodman, A., Walker, I. and Windmeijer, F. (2005) Parental background and ...

Mothers' achievement beliefs and behaviors and their children's school readiness: A cultural comparison

CR Kinlaw, B Kurtz-Costes… - Journal of applied …, 2001 - Elsevier
... be very different from the parental behaviors that influence the school readiness of preschoolers ...
Thus, attempts to understand ethnic differences in parental influences on children's competence ...
under study rather than attempting to apply European-American concepts and norms ...

Variables associated with assigning students to behavioral classrooms

I Dixon-Floyd… - The Journal of Educational …, 1997 - Heldref Publications
... here are many concepts and issues associated with at- T risk youth. ... The researcher identified
such variables as low income, single- parent or female-headed households, and number ... How
does a school system compensate for academic deficiencies in students who come from ...

Early educational intervention with disadvantaged children--To what effect?*

SL Ramey… - Applied and Preventive Psychology, 1992 - Elsevier
... Within this figure are the key concepts of systems theory, namely, context, pro- cess, and outcomes. ...
the com- bined influence of health, educational, social, and psy- chological factors in determining
school success has been ... Parent involvement in infant and preschool programs. ...

Biological, social, and community influences on third‐grade reading levels of minority Head Start children: A multilevel approach

VA Rauh, FL Parker, RS Garfinkel… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... a major accumulation of risk, including poverty, single-parent households, low parental education,
and ... percentage of preschool children in public assistance households and other poverty-related
data ... If factors influencing a child's school success reside in the community as well ...

A multidisciplinary perspective on the development of young children in immigrant families

PL Chase-Lansdale, AV D'Angelo… - Immigrant families in …, 2007 - books.google.com
... In particular, mothers' and fathers' responsiveness, positive interaction, and cognitive stimulation
predicted 3-year-olds' verbal abilities, problem solving, early number concepts, language, and
social skills. ... Genetic differences and school readiness. ... Ethnic and minority parent- ing ...

Enhancing transition from early childhood phase to primary education: Evidence from the research literature

DA Yeboah - Early Years: An International Journal of Research …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
... skill accomplishments, knowledge and life experiences, and follow them up with the teaching
and learning of new concepts. ... Parental involvement would enhance successful transition. ...
Alexander, KL & Entwise, DR (1988) Achievement in the first 2 years of school: patterns and ...

[DOC] Families, educators, and the family-school partnership: Issues or opportunities for promoting children's learning competence

SL Christenson - Future of School Psychology Continues” conference, 2002 - indiana.edu
... schools; the second class of inputs - attitudes, effort, and conception of self ... student roles and
responsibilities for improved outcomes during parent-teacher conferences ... the Family Resource
Coalition has suggested three levels: school readiness, developmentally appropriate ...

Quality of prekindergarten: What families are looking for in public sponsored programs

OA Barbarin, T McCandies, D Early… - Early Education and …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Information on parents' conception of program quality was assessed from two perspectives. ... she
was taught to share with other people, and that she was learning what school is about ... have to
be friendly with kids and parents • Teachers supervise children well (ex., parent has to ...

[PDF] The contributions of hard skills and socio-emotional behavior to school readiness

GJ Duncan - 2004 - ipr.northwestern.edu
... Public school kindergarten teachers' views on children's readiness for school. ... Descriptions of
child-level variables including test scores and teacher and parent social rating ... The test assessed
children's conception and understanding of the social, physical, and natural world and ...

Using readiness tests to route kindergarten students: The snarled intersection of psychometrics, policy, and practice

MC Ellwein, DJ Walsh, GM Eads… - … Evaluation and Policy …, 1991 - epa.sagepub.com
... Crite- rion-related validity is investigated by an- alyzing the correspondence between (a)
screening-test scores and (b) end-of ... Daberon Screening for School Readiness The Daberon
was designed to "sample the knowledge and skills of children as they ... Number concepts × × × × ...

Impact of community mentors on maternal behaviors and child outcomes

SE Dieterich, SH Landry, KE Smith… - Journal of Early …, 2006 - jei.sagepub.com
... Research in school settings and communi- ty outreach programs with families with risk factors ...
Limited empirical evidence exists related to the inclusion of mentors in home-based ... We also
wanted to examine whether parent change mediated the inter- vention effectiveness on ...

Early childhood computer experience and cognitive development among urban low-income preschoolers

AM Fish, X Li, K McCarrick, ST Butler… - Journal of Educational …, 2008 - Baywood
... These concepts are important for understanding physical properties of objects in relation to ...
cognitive development and early computer experience may be confounded by parent's education
or ... was found to be significantly related to child cognitive scores and school readiness. ...

[PDF] Children's social behavior in relation to participation in mixed-age or same-age classrooms

…, S Kinsey - Early Childhood Research & …, 1999 - peelearlyyears.com
... that, overall, promotes higher achievement scores, stronger social development, better
self-concepts, and more ... study (Kinsey, 1996) was conducted to investigate possible biases in
parent choice ... 1) survey completion was requested during the spring of the school term, allowing ...

Educational expectations and school achievement of urban African American children

S Gill… - Journal of School Psychology, 2000 - Elsevier
... 1 for high school completion and higher levels of education according to parent reports in ... This
subtest includes 95 items measuring computation, concepts, and problem-solving ability. ... to study
the process(es) of transmission of educational expectations on school achievement. ...

[PDF] Rethinking parent involvement during the transition to first grade: A focus on Asian American families

SR Sy - School Community Journal, 2006 - adi.org
... Sociology of Education, 72(1), 22-36. Griffith, J. (1996). Relation of parental involvement,
empowerment, and school traits to stu- dent academic performance. Journal of Educational
Research, 90(1), 33-41. Henderson, AT, & app, KL (2002). ...

Child characteristics and family processes that predict behavioral readiness for school

SB Campbell… - … in school readiness: How …, 2008 - books.google.com
... in terms of language development, pre-literacy skills, and developing number concepts (Dorn,
1998 ... moderate the links between early self-regulatory skills and children's behavioral readiness
for school? ... stable two-parent family and 33% lived in either single- parent, divorced, or ...

The use of multiple evaluation approaches in program evaluation

KL Bledsoe… - American Journal of Evaluation, 2005 - aje.sagepub.com
... An additional challenge was to accurately measure concepts from the conceptual model ... to positive
family function- ing, fostering in-home reading, prekindergarten school readiness, and overall ...
Reduce parents' stress level F oster nurturing interactions between parent and child ...

Self-regulation and the income-achievement gap

GW Evans… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
... with their classmates just as much as they need the cognitive skills required to master the reading
and math concepts taught in ... Table 3. Upstate NY self-regulatory mediational model for
income-to-needs at Grades 3–5 and middle school math grades ... Single parent, −.16, .46, −.06. ...

A comparison of European American and Puerto Rican parents' goals and expectations about the socialization and education of pre‐school children

B Achhpal, JA Goldman… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... Finally, the importance of categories was rank ordered for each parent group. ... of Pre‐academic
Skills (eg child should know numbers, should know letters, and learn basic concepts). ... from other
studies in which many authors reported that parents of pre‐school children in the ...

Home-school differences in beliefs, support, and control during public pre-kindergarten and their link to children's kindergarten readiness

OA Barbarin, J Downer, E Odom… - Early Childhood Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
... In addition, we will test a directional conception of home–school match and its ... teacher) and two
types of mismatch (low parent/high teacher; high parent/low teacher ... Children's school readiness,
operationalized as social and academic competencies in the fall of the kindergarten ...

Dropping out among language minority youth

L Steinberg, PL Blinde… - Review of Educational …, 1984 - rer.sagepub.com
... clear whether the likelihood of dropping out per se is increased by parental pressure on ... were
better able than their low income, monolingual peers at learning new labels for concepts. ... Many
of the differences in the school experiences of language minority and white youngsters ...

The first two years of school: Teacher-child relationships and deflections in children's classroom adjustment

RC Pianta, MS Steinberg… - Development and …, 1995 - Cambridge Univ Press
... the are widely regarded as important markers STRS subscales and parent report of ... Other studies
(Pianta, 1994) school district to be related to subsequent have reported a wide ... mastery of
preacademic skills and text of individual differences between concepts, orientation toward ...

Why could father involvement benefit children? Theoretical perspectives

JH Pleck - Applied Development Science, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... Belsky's (1984) influential ''process model of par- enting'' is entirely consistent with
Bronfenbrenner's conception. ... Time and paternal involve- ment. ... Psycho- social adjustment, school
outcomes, and romantic relationships of adolescents with same-sex parents. ...

Testing a Core Emotion‐Regulation Prediction: Does Early Attentional Persistence Moderate the Effect of Infant Negative Emotionality on Later Development?

J Belsky, SL Friedman… - Child Development, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... rated social competence at age 3, but we add to this outcome a parent rating of ... and two screening
tests and is designed to assess a child's knowledge of basic concepts. ... This composite measure
of school readiness con- sists of 5 categories and 51 items assessing children's ...

Relations between parenting quality and cognitive performance of children experiencing varying amounts of childcare

E Adi‐Japha… - Child development, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... no interaction between childcare quality and parenting quality, or between childcare quality and
quantity, in relation to cognitive ... (d) Family structure, two-parent status (either married or ... F(3, 903) =
3.45, p < 05, as well as the separate ANCOVA for school readiness and receptive ...

Parenting in relation to child and adolescent vocational development

BK Bryant, AM Zvonkovic… - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006 - Elsevier
... and competence, found to reciprocally influence each other (Tracey, 2002), have been central
concepts in the ... Fathers and mothers in dual parent, dual earner households tend to share in
providing ... in this activity than fathers, given more than half of high school juniors thought ...

Selected factors influencing over-and underachievement in young school-age children

CA Asbury - Review of Educational Research, 1974 - JSTOR
... This is sometimes explained in terms of parental expectations, aspirations, and attention, which
are apt to be ... used an adaptation of the Semantic Differential to investigate preceived power and
evaluate attitudes toward concepts presumed to be important for school learning. ...

Low birth weight and school readiness

NE Reichman - The Future of Children, 2005 - JSTOR
... The medical, developmental, and behavioral problems of a very light infant may heighten parental
stress, which may in turn ... Low Birth Weight and School Readiness ... with less than a high school
education was 9 percent, as against 7.9 percent among high school graduates, and ...

Parent‐delivered compensatory education for children at risk of educational failure: Improving the academic and self‐regulatory skills of a Sure Start preschool sample

RM Ford, SJP McDougall… - British journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... skills and recognition of written numerals, and to link children's concepts about quantity ... Previous
research has linked parental warmth, stimulation, and responsiveness with improved regulation ...
only numerical skills emerged as an important predictor of school readiness in their ...

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