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Toso, Blaire Willson, Ed. – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2013
The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) presents, alongside the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State University, these proceedings from the research strand at the 22nd National Conference on Family Literacy. Through these sessions, NCFL's conference continues to provide the latest research in family education…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Parent Participation, Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education
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Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Darnell, Adam J.; Alvarez-Jimenez, Anabel – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
A path model based in a theory of social capital was tested with Latino middle school (n = 195, 58% female, average 13.8 years of age) and high school students (n = 129, 64% female, average 16.8 years of age). Most participants (77%) were immigrants (predominantly from Mexico). Questionnaires assessed student perceptions of parent involvement,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Adjustment, Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students
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Jung, Sunyoung; Stone, Susan – Children & Schools, 2008
This secondary analysis of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, a randomized study of program participation of children and families in Early Head Start (that is, enrolled in programming prior to children's first birthdays) investigated sociodemographic (race and ethnicity, income level, and maternal education level) and program…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Child Rearing, Social Work, Program Evaluation
Bennett, Adrian T. – 1987
An ethnographic study of the intake process involving the formal assessment, placement, and educational programming of 12 Hispanic deaf/hearing impaired children, aged 3-8, in both a private school for the deaf and the New York City public schools, was conducted over a 2-year period (1984-1986). Participant observation, interviewing, and…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Cultural Differences, Deafness, Decision Making
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Kaufman, Phillip; And Others – 1992
The study described in this report examined the characteristics of eighth-grade students who were at risk of school failure. The study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, which is a large-scale, national longitudinal study begun in the spring of 1988 when 25,000 eighth graders attending public and private schools…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, American Indians, Black Students, Demography
Diaz Soto, Lourdes – 1988
The unstructured observations of a participant observer can point out areas of research interest overlooked by formal research instruments. This researcher's diary presents insights obtained while conducting a study regarding the home environments of 15 higher achieving and 11 lower achieving Puerto Rican fifth and sixth grade students residing in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Family Environment