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Davis, Alan; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
The effect of extended text writing on the writing proficiency of urban elementary school students was investigated with 39 fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms. Both quality of writing and use of writing conventions was better for students with extended writing practice, a result consistent for minority and European American students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Parke, Ross D.; Coltrane, Scott; Duffy, Sharon; Buriel, Raymond; Dennis, Jessica; Powers, Justina; French, Sabine; Widaman, Keith F. – Child Development, 2004
To assess the impact of economic hardship on 111 European American and 167 Mexican American families and their 5th-grade (M age 11.4 years) children, a family stress model was evaluated. Structural equation analyses revealed that economic hardship was linked to indexes of economic pressure that were related to depressive symptoms for mothers and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Marital Instability, Depression (Psychology), Mexican Americans

Xiang, Ping; Lee, Amelia M.; Solmon, Melinda A. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1997
Examined achievement goals and their correlates in physical education in 180 Chinese students and 121 Anglo-American students in grades 4, 5, and 6. The same two-dimensional factor structure of goal orientation (task and ego orientation) cut across the two cultural groups in physical education, but relationships seemed to vary as a function of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Anglo Americans, Chinese, Cultural Differences