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Park, Daeun; Gunderson, Elizabeth A.; Maloney, Erin A.; Tsukayama, Eli; Beilock, Sian L.; Duckworth, Angela L.; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Prior research shows that when parents monitor, check, and assist in completing homework without an invitation, their children's motivation and academic achievement often decline. We propose that intrusive support from parents might also send the message that children are incompetent, especially if they believe their intelligence is fixed. We…
Descriptors: Homework, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Learning Motivation
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Calderón-Tena, Carlos O. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
This study investigated the role of broad cognitive processes in the development of mathematics skills among children and adolescents. Four hundred and forty-seven students (age mean [M] = 10.23 years, 73% boys and 27% girls) from an elementary school district in the US southwest participated. Structural equation modelling tests indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Juarez, Betsy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Psychoeducational assessment, and specifically cognitive testing, is important to the role of school psychologists; however, the utility of such testing has been called into question, and its future is unclear. Researchers are divided into two camps. One side grew disenchanted with cognitive testing after the failure of the discrepancy method to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Psychoeducational Methods