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Cekiso, Madoda; Rabelemane, Tsielo; Jadezweni, Jay; Mandende, Itani P.; Dieperink, Marius – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Rural learners face severe reading challenges that are unique to their environment. The challenges include parents' low level of education, little or no parental support, lack of reading material, and parents' low socio-economic status. It is therefore important that rural education research highlights these challenges in order to help…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Rural Schools, Reading Skills
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Süleyman Avci; Mustafa Özgenel; Akif Avcu – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
The purpose of this study was to examine in detail the relationship between perceived parental involvement in homework (content-oriented and autonomy-oriented forms of involvement) and students' homework behavior (homework time, homework time management, and amount of homework completed). The study also looked at how the relationships between…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Homework, Student Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Kafoussi, Sonia; Chaviaris, Petros; Moutsios-Rentzos, Andreas – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
In this paper, we present a qualitative study about the parental influences on sixth graders' mathematical identity. The case study was conducted in a Greek primary school where fifteen children were interviewed through a series of questions for each of the following axes: attainment, attitudes, values, nature of mathematics, self-confidence and…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Castaño-Pulgarín, Sergio Andrés; Millán Otero, Katy Luz; Herrera-López, Harvey Mauricio – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Internet users, especially adolescents, may experience online risks that can affect their mental health. This study examined the association between online risks and family support as this has been conceptualized as variable that can prevent the risks in the Internet use among adolescents. Method: We applied an adapted version to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Family Role, Correlation
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Lee, Seon-Young; Thomson, Dana – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2014
Involving more than 1,500 academically gifted students and their parents, this study examined relationships between family environment and social competence of gifted students. Results from an online survey revealed that our gifted students rated their families as cohesive and flexible with high levels of satisfaction and communication among…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Social Development, Academically Gifted, Correlation
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Martin, Andrew J.; Way, Jennifer; Bobis, Janette; Anderson, Judy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
This study of 1,601 students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 5-8, each student measured twice, 1 year apart) from 200 classrooms in 44 schools sought to identify factors explaining gains and declines in mathematics engagement at key transition points. In multilevel regression modeling, findings showed that compared with Grade 6 students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Education, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Achievement
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Ghazarian, Sharon R.; Buehler, Cheryl – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
Using a risk and resiliency theoretical framework, the association between interparental conflict and academic achievement was examined. The sample consisted of 2,297 6th grade youth with a mean age of 11.92. Participants were mostly European American (81.8%) and 52% were girls. Results demonstrated that interparental conflict is a risk factor for…
Descriptors: Conflict, Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Parent Influence
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James, Jenee; Ellis, Bruce J.; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Garber, Judy – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The current study tested sex-specific pathways to early puberty, sexual debut, and sexual risk taking, as specified by an integrated evolutionary-developmental model of adolescent sexual development and behavior. In a prospective study of 238 adolescents (n = 129 girls and n = 109 boys) followed from approximately 12-18 years of age, we tested for…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Puberty, Fatherless Family
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Hadeed, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This article presents the continued effects of a home-based intervention programme on child development outcomes and parenting practices in Bahrain. The intervention is the "Mother-Child Home Education Programme" (MOCEP) which was implemented in Arabic in the Kingdom of Bahrain beginning in 2001. One hundred and sixty-seven poor,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Mothers, Disadvantaged
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Lialiugene, I. Iu.; Rupshene, L. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The economic factor is considered primary in temporary labor migrations: when people can find jobs in a country where the standard of living is higher, they are able to earn more money than they would in their home country. In the recent years, differences in pay have been so large that by earning a lot of money in a different country and spending…
Descriptors: Socialization, Living Standards, Seasonal Laborers, Foreign Countries
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Burrell, Ginger Lockhart; Roosa, Mark W. – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
Concerns about the heightened prevalence of behavior problems among adolescents from low-income families have prompted researchers to understand processes through which economic variables influence functioning within multiple domains. Guided by a stress process framework and social contextual theory, this study examines processes linking perceived…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Low Income, Mothers, Adolescents
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Thomson, Nicole Renick – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
The present study examined the fairness judgements and reasoning offered by children and adolescents in the context of the division of household labour among siblings. The data were examined for grade level differences in the endorsement of three distributive justice principles (equality, equity and need). Male and female third grade, sixth grade…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grade 3, Grade 6, Adolescents