Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ460070
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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Parental Beliefs and Children's School Performance.
Okagaki, Lynn; Sternberg, Robert J.
Child Development, v64 n1 p36-56 Feb 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, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Grade 1, Grade 2, Immigrants, Kindergarten Children, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, Parent Attitudes, Parent Background, Parents, Primary Education, Questionnaires, Racial Differences, Vietnamese People
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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