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Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M. – Child Development, 1984
Examines (1) the relationship between children's scores on the Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME) Inventory and their achievement test scores, and (2) the relationship between children's intervening home environments and their school achievement. Data were gathered from 37 normal first-grade children and their families.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Family Environment, Followup Studies
Simner, Marvin L. – 1983
The claim that the incidence of school failure can be greatly reduced by increasing kindergarten entrance age from 57 to 60 months was investigated in three related studies. In the first study, subjects ranging in school entrance age from 57 to 68 months were drawn from five elementary schools in an urban lower socioeconomic area. A total of 114…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Background, Family Environment, Foreign Countries