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Manuel T. Valdés – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The academic advantage associated with having a university-educated parent may be intrinsic to that condition or depend on the proportion of university-educated parents in a society. If the latter, the expansion at university level will bring about a decrease in the average performance of children from university-educated families. I capitalize on…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement
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Jiang, Tao; Chen, Ji-gen; Xu, Ping-chuan; Zeng, Ping-fei – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
Although much research has explored the personal, family, school, and social influences on adolescents' career expectations, little is known about the types of family-related career expectations of students and career expectation contexts in school. Using PISA 2018 test data, a multilevel latent profile analysis was conducted with indicators of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Blyth, Jamie – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
Math anxiety is becoming more prevalent in classrooms around the world. Students with math anxiety experience both physiological and psychological symptoms, in addition to long-term effects. This article examines the global context of math anxiety, the causes of math anxiety, and what educators can do to support students who experience math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Role, Secondary School Students
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Fernando Senar; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Andrés Sandoval-Hernández; Cecilio Lapresta-Rey – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on the perception of parental involvement policies offered by schools in various countries. Using PISA (2018) data, a multilevel model is implemented for each participant country to adopt a comparative perspective. While the results suggest a complex effect, moderated by idiosyncratic…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Parent Participation, School Policy, Cultural Differences
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Early, Erin; Miller, Sarah; Dunne, Laura; Thurston, Allen; Filiz, Mehmet – Review of Education, 2020
This narrative systematic review examined relationships between school attainment, socio-economic status and gender in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2012. The influence of socio-economic status was considered at the individual and school level, while gender was examined at the individual level. To ensure consistency among included studies, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; Cai, Yuyang; King, Ronnel B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Previous studies that attempted to explain why girls often perform better than boys in reading have emphasized the role of values and beliefs, with little attention paid to the role of emotions. This study focused on the role of parent-child emotional contagion in explaining gender differences, by investigating how parents' reading emotion…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Achievement, Parent Influence, Emotional Response
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Ömür, Çoban – World Journal of Education, 2020
This research was conducted in Turkey and it examined the relationships between fifteen-year-old students' PISA 2018 literacy scores and student-level and school-level variables. This study aimed to examine the relationships between students' hindering, teachers' hindering, socioeconomic status, parental support and student achievement. The…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Literacy
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Chambers, Rebecca G.; Asarta, Carlos J.; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth N. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2019
This study examines the gender gap in financial literacy by using the Financial Literacy Assessment from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The analysis focuses on the influence of parents on their children's understanding of financial concepts, utilizing multilevel modeling procedures to examine variance among…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Money Management, Literacy, Parent Child Relationship
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Karakoyun, Ferit; Basaran, Bülent – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2022
In this study, 15-year-old Turkish students' profiles of using ICT at home and at school were identified, and the extent to which these profiles were associated with their academic achievement was determined. Moreover, the study investigated the effects of the students' age of first usage of digital device and internet, their gender and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Computer Use, Academic Achievement
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Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Niemi, Pekka – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
The gender difference in reading achievement in favor of adolescent girls is a robust finding in the literature, but the evidence is mixed when considering younger children. The present study followed the development of reading skills among Finnish children (N = 1867) from kindergarten age (6 years) to 18 years of age to determine the onset of…
Descriptors: Student Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Sex Role, Parent Background
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Funda Erdogdu; Erkan Erdogdu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The attitude towards ICT determines the amount of incentive for practicing with it, which may directly affect ICT literacy. So, students' attitude inter alia is one of the substantial building blocks of ICT literacy, which in turn is an important component of improved student achievement brought about by it. This paper is devoted to exploring the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Student Attitudes
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Atasoy, Ramazan; Çoban, Ömür; Yatagan, Murat – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2022
We aimed to examine the effect of ICT use, parental support and student hindering on science achievement in Turkey, USA and South Korea with using PISA 2018 data. PISA is one of the biggest international assessment study aiming comparison of students' academic capabilities in science, mathematics and reading among participant countries. For this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Parent Influence
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John Jerrim; Claudia Prieto-Latorre; Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
A sizeable literature -- spanning education, sociology and economics -- has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data…
Descriptors: Father Attitudes, Mother Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Preferences
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Marquez, Jose; Lambert, Louise; Ridge, Natasha Y.; Walker, Stuart – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
In most education systems, students with an immigrant background perform worse academically than do native students. However, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) differences emerge in the opposite direction and the national-expatriate gap in academic performance is equivalent to almost three years of schooling. This gap is a concern in the UAE,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; Cai, Yuyang; King, Ronnel B. – School Psychology International, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether parents' utility value perceptions predicted their children's utility value perceptions, demonstrating social contagion effects. We also examined whether utility value would predict achievement. This is a cross-sectional study that utilized data from a subsample of adolescent students from…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Value Judgment, Predictor Variables
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