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Direct linkRebecca Bier – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Socioeconomic gaps in children's academic and social skills are large upon Kindergarten entry (von Hippel, Workman, and Downey 2018; Reardon 2011; Reardon and Portilla 2016). Preschool programs may yield particularly large benefits to low-income students and racially minoritized groups and may be promising for reducing inequalities…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Socioeconomic Status, Kindergarten, Low Income Students
Perceived Financial Needs, Income Sources, and Subjective Financial Well-Being in an Emerging Market
Download full textKiymaz, Halil; Öztürkkal, Belma – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2019
This study investigates perceived financial needs and subjective financial well-being using data from a national survey of 2,567 households in Turkey. Financial needs are measured by consumer perceived ability to meet current living expenses in the short-term as well as their assessment for the retirement security in the long-term. We also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Needs, Money Management, Well Being
Elliott, Leanne; Zheng, Peter; Libertus, Melissa – Education Sciences, 2021
Past research has examined parental support for children's math and reading skills in the early years through parents' reports of their activities with their children in somewhat inconsistent ways. In this study, we use data from a large sample of parents (n = 259; 103 males) collected through Amazon's Mechanical Turk to examine dimensions of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Parent Attitudes, Parent Role, Numeracy
Koçu, Inan; Kaya, Halil Ibrahim – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This research was conducted to examine 8th grade students' learning strategies based on self-regulation in physical education and sports class. The suitability of self-regulated learning scores to the normal distribution in groups in motor skills was investigated with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Mann-Whitney U test statistics for groups with two…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Public Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Shahjahan, M.; Ahmed, Kazi Rumana; Al Hadrami, Ahmed; Islam, Md. Rabiul; Hossain, Sharmin; Khan, Md. Sabur – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
Poor academic performance is challenging for students, parents, and teachers. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the factors associated with the poor academic performance of 661 undergraduate students who scored CGPA [less than or equal to]2.5 from a selected private university of Dhaka City, Bangladesh, using a simple random sampling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Low Achievement
Amutabi, Cyprian; Agoot, Martha Nyantiop – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite the consensus on the vital role of human capital investment towards a country's socio-economic development, school enrolment levels in South Sudan remain dismal with no empirical study conducted to unravel the same. Using the 2016 South Sudan Frequency Survey data, this study sought to unravel the determinants of primary school enrolment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Park, Ju-Young; Park, Eun-Young – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
This study analyzed factors affecting the acquisition and retention of employment among individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). These factors were verified according to job type and were classified into general characteristics, family-related factors, psychological factors, and abilities. Data from 398 individuals with ID were analyzed…
Descriptors: Employment, Labor Turnover, Intellectual Disability, Gender Differences
McDermott, Elana R.; Jahromi, Laudan B.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Martinez-Fuentes, Stefanie; Jones, Shandra M.; Updegraff, Kimberly A. – Child Development, 2021
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of 204 Mexican-origin adolescent mothers, their mother figures, and their children, the current investigation examined (a) adolescent mothers' educational re-engagement and attainment beginning during their pregnancy and ending when their child was 5 years old; and (b) the influence of the family economic…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Mothers, Early Parenthood
Loots, Reginald; Yan, Bingwen; Vember, Hilda – Child Care in Practice, 2022
Malnutrition is a global concern and it impacts negatively on mortality, morbidity, educability and productivity. Millions of children in South Africa are affected. This study examines the key factors associated with malnutrition among children aged six months to five years in a semi-rural area of the Western Cape, South Africa. A quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Parents, Caregivers
Pamelia Patterson Bunnitt – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative study was to discuss the predictability between demographic, academic, and family-related factors on the retention rate of freshman college students. The researcher analyzed, through statistical analysis, each student's high school grade point average, first-semester grade point average, ACT/SAT scores, mother's…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Family Influence, Academic Persistence
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 families in 11 cultural groups in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines,…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Socioeconomic Status
Bukhalenkova, Daria; Gavrilova, Margarita; Kartushina, Natalia – Education Sciences, 2021
Emotion understanding develops intensively in preschool and junior school. Although the parent/family environment has been shown to affect the development of emotion understanding in children, very little research has examined examined how parents' view upbringing and education and how they are related to their child's emotion understanding, given…
Descriptors: Intuition, Parenting Styles, Theories, Emotional Development
Preece, David; Murray, Jane; Rose, Richard; Zhao, Yu; Garner, Philip – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Data were collected from heads of households across Bhutan to gain insights regarding children with disabilities up to 18 years in Bhutan. Fieldwork was conducted by local enumerators, trained by researchers from the UK who analysed and interpreted the data. Results indicate that whilst there are largely positive attitudes towards children with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Children, Adolescents
Rohena, Luis O. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Uniformed Services University (USU) created the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2) in 2014 with the goal of diversifying their student body. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether certain independent variables (gender, age, race/ethnicity, underrepresented in medicine (URM) status, years of military…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Military Personnel, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Cortez, Alex; Beach, Paul; Lee, Nick; Graziano, Lynne; Robinson, Brian; Beals, Kateland – Bellwether, 2023
This introductory report outlines the challenges of postsecondary completion, the variable value provided by a postsecondary pathway, and the corresponding cost and debt. Together, these challenges create an inequitable, ineffective, and unsustainable U.S. postsecondary system in which individuals are increasingly reluctant to participate or…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education
