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Self-Regulation and the Income-Achievement Gap
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Evans, Gary W.; Rosenbaum, Jennifer – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008
The pervasive income-related achievement gap among children has been partially explained by parental investments. Wealthier parents provide more cognitively enriched environments (e.g., books, informal learning opportunities such as music lessons) and converse more with their children relative to low-income parents. However parental investment…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Family Income, Delay of Gratification, Academic Achievement
Can Television Enhance Children's Mathematical Problem Solving?
Fisch, Shalom M.; And Others – Educational IRM Quarterly, 1994
A summative evaluation of "Square One TV," an educational mathematics series produced by the Children's Television Workshop, shows that children who regularly viewed the program showed significant improvement in solving unfamiliar, complex mathematical problems, and viewers showed improvement in their mathematical problem-solving ability…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Ethnicity
Getting Access to the "Underground"--Insights into Children's Identities Online
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Maher, Damian; Schuck, Sandy – Australian Educational Computing, 2004
Increasingly computers in primary schools are being used to support the interactions and learning of students online. Gaining access to online spaces gives students new ways of interacting, not possible in a face-to-face setting. For example, interacting through online environments allows students to interact more informally with each other and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Context Effect