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Zhu, Jinxin; Chiu, Ming Ming – Educational Psychology, 2020
Although native family students often learn more than immigrant family students in school (e.g. civics), scholars have not systematically demonstrated the mechanisms through which native family students outperform immigrant family students. The "Opportunity-Propensity" framework guides this study. We examine the link between students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Civics, Citizenship Education
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Chiu, Ming Ming; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
Family characteristics' links to literacy learning and their differences across macrosystems (economic and cultural contexts) were explored in multilevel analyses of the reading tests and questionnaire responses of 193,841 fifteen-year-olds across 41 countries. Students who had two parents, had higher family socioeconomic status (SES), were native…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Relationship, Reading Achievement