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Direct linkMills, Monique T.; Watkins, Ruth V.; Washington, Julie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: To report preliminary comparisons of developing structural and dialectal characteristics associated with fictional and personal narratives in school-age African American children. Method: Forty-three children, Grades 2-5, generated a fictional narrative and a personal narrative in response to a wordless-book elicitation task and a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Elementary School Students, Fiction, Personal Narratives
Ohmstede, Tammi J.; Yetter, Georgette – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2015
This study investigated the effectiveness of conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) for addressing externalizing behavior concerns in African American children at home and school in a low-socioeconomic status (SES), urban setting. A small-n, multiple-baseline design was employed across participants. Three of the six caregivers were unable to…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, African American Children
McNair, Jonda C.; Brooks, Wanda M. – Reading Teacher, 2012
This article presents a content analysis of nine transitional chapter books featuring African American females. Transitional chapter books are geared toward transitional readers--children in grades 2 through 4 who have outgrown predictable books and other types of easy readers but are not ready for more complex novels. The purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, Content Analysis, Novels
Spilt, Jantine L.; Hughes, Jan N. – School Psychology Review, 2015
Previous studies have found that different trajectories of conflicted relationships with teachers predicted academic underachievement. However, little is known about what places children at risk of atypical conflict trajectories. This follow-up study examines whether African American ethnicity, IQ, and socioeconomic status (SES) are unique…
Descriptors: African American Children, At Risk Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students
Dunkel, Stephanie B.; Kistner, Janet A.; David-Ferdon, Corinne – Social Development, 2010
The present study investigated possible ethnic contributions to overly positive self-perceptions in middle childhood. The goals of this study were threefold. First, the present study sought to replicate the intriguing findings reported by Zakriski and Coie that African American children overestimate their acceptance, and European American children…
Descriptors: African American Children, Ethnicity, Peer Acceptance, Racial Differences
Banerjee, Meeta; Harrell, Zaje A. T.; Johnson, Deborah J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Racial/ethnic socialization has not been studied in the context of other parenting behaviors such as parental involvement in education and its relationship to children's cognitive outcomes. The present study tested the impact of racial/ethnic socialization and parental involvement in education on cognitive ability and achievement in a sample of…
Descriptors: African American Children, Socialization, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement
Cole, Juanita M.; Boykin, A. Wade – Journal of Black Psychology, 2008
This study describes two experiments that extended earlier work on the Afrocultural theme Movement Expression. The impact of various learning conditions characterized by different types of music-linked movement on story recall performance was examined. African American children were randomly assigned to a learning condition, presented a story, and…
Descriptors: African American Children, Music, Story Reading, Recall (Psychology)
Rowley, Stephanie J.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Zeisel, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study examined the effect of changes in racial identity, cross-race friendships, same-race friendships, and classroom racial composition on changes in race-related social cognition from 3rd to 5th grade for 73 African American children. The goal of the study was to determine the extent to which preadolescent racial identity and social context…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Racial Attitudes, Poverty
Burchinal, Margaret R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Zeisel, Susan A.; Rowley, Stephanie J. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The transition to middle school is often marked by decreased academic achievement and increased emotional stress, and African American children exposed to social risk may be especially vulnerable during this transition. To identify mediators and protective factors, the authors related severity and timing of risk exposure to academic achievement…
Descriptors: African American Children, Racial Discrimination, Academic Achievement, Child Rearing
Boykin, A. Wade; Lilja, Amy J.; Tyler, Kenneth M. – Learning Environments Research, 2004
Empirical research utilizing the communal learning construct suggests that culturally-informed pedagogy enhances academic performance for African-American children. The present investigation examined the effect of culturally-informed learning contexts on recall performance in geography lessons. The sample consisted of 69 African-American Grade 4-5…
Descriptors: African American Children, Context Effect, Testing, Academic Achievement
Xie, Hongling; Li, Yan; Boucher, Signe M.; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Cairns, Beverley D. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Open-ended questions were used to obtain narrative accounts of what makes a girl (or a boy) popular (or unpopular) at school. The participants were 489 African American students in Grades 1, 4, and 7 recruited from high-risk inner-city neighborhoods. Appearance and self-presentation were mentioned the most in Grades 4 and 7. Prosocial…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 4, Grade 7, Child Development
Hooper, Stephen R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Zeisel, Susan A.; Poe, Michele – Behavioral Disorders, 2003
The authors examined (a) the extent to which kindergarten estimates of core language functions predicted teacher ratings of behavior problems in each of the child's first 4 years of elementary school and (b) the ability of core language measures to predict concurrent behavior problems at each of the early elementary school grades studied.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Children, Behavior Problems, Teacher Evaluation
