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Is Something Better than Nothing? An Evaluation of Early Childhood Programs in Cambodia
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Rao, Nirmala; Sun, Jin; Pearson, Veronica; Pearson, Emma; Liu, Hongyun; Constas, Mark A.; Engle, Patrice L. – Child Development, 2012
This study evaluated the relative effectiveness of home-based, community-based, and state-run early childhood programs across Cambodia. A total of 880 five-year-olds (55% girls) from 6 rural provinces in Cambodia attending State Preschools, Community Preschools, Home-Based Programs, or no programs were assessed twice using the Cambodian…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas
Multiple Forms of Stress in Cambodian Adolescent Refugees.
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Sack, William H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 170 Cambodian refugee youth and 80 of their mothers living in Portland, Oregon, regarding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the stress of war, resettlement, and recent life events. A consistent relationship between earlier war trauma, resettlement stress, and symptoms of PTSD was found. In contrast, the strongest relationship to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodians, Mothers
Parental Beliefs and Children's School Performance.
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Okagaki, Lynn; Sternberg, Robert J. – Child Development, 1993
Assessed the attitudes of 359 immigrant and native-born American parents of kindergarten through second-grade children about child rearing, education, and intelligence and their children's school performance. Found that parents' beliefs about conformity were negatively related to their children's school performance. (MDM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Beliefs, Cambodians