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Phillips, Linda M.; Norris, Stephen P.; Hayward, Denyse V.; Lovell, Meridith A. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
This study investigated whether mothers' measured reading proficiency and their educational level predict, over and above each other, their children's receptive vocabulary and reading proficiency when confounding factors of speaking a minority language, ethnicity, number of children in the family, and marital and employment status are controlled.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Reading Skills, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
Norris, Stephen P.; And Others – 1992
A study tested several possible explanations of why the reading literacy levels in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) are lower than those in the rest of Canada. Reading literacy was chosen as the focus of analysis for three reasons: (1) the reading score was the most consistent of the three direct measures of literacy; (2) the reading and…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Brain Drain, Demography