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Peer Acceptance and Rejection during Secondary School: Do Associations with Subsequent Educational Outcomes Vary by Socioeconomic Background?
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Stephanie Plenty; Chaïm la Roi – Child Development, 2024
Research shows that peer relationships are associated with students' school adjustment. However, the importance of advantageous and disadvantageous factors for students' educational outcomes may vary by socioeconomic positioning. Drawing on sociometric and register data from a nationally representative sample of Swedish youth (n = 4996, girls 50%;…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Status
Students' Occupational Aspirations: Can Family Relationships Account for Differences between Immigrant and Socioeconomic Groups?
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Plenty, Stephanie M.; Jonsson, Jan O. – Child Development, 2021
Immigrant background and disadvantaged socioeconomic background are two key predictors of poorer school achievement in Europe. However, the former is associated with higher while the latter is associated with lower aspirations. This study asks whether family relationships account for this difference. Data come from 5,926 students in Germany and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Immigrants
More than Growth Mindset: Individual and Interactive Links among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents' Ability Mindsets, Metacognitive Skills, and Math Engagement
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Wang, Ming-Te; Zepeda, Cristina D.; Qin, Xu; Del Toro, Juan; Binning, Kevin R. – Child Development, 2021
This article used self-regulated learning as a theoretical lens to examine the individual and interactive associations between a growth mindset and metacognition on math engagement for adolescent students from socioeconomically disadvantaged schools. Across three longitudinal studies with 207, 897, and 2,325 11- to 15-year-old adolescents,…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Can the Arts Get under the Skin? Arts and Cortisol for Economically Disadvantaged Children
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Brown, Eleanor D.; Garnett, Mallory L.; Anderson, Kate E.; Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe – Child Development, 2017
This within-subjects experimental study investigated the influence of the arts on cortisol for economically disadvantaged children. Participants were 310 children, ages 3-5 years, who attended a Head Start preschool and were randomly assigned to participate in different schedules of arts and homeroom classes on different days of the week. Cortisol…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Art Education
From Innovation to Impact at Scale: Lessons Learned from a Cluster of Research-Community Partnerships
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Philip A.; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Child Development, 2017
This article presents a description of how an interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, community-based programs, parents, and state agencies have joined together to design, test, and scale a suite of innovative intervention strategies rooted in new knowledge about the biology of adversity. Through a process of cocreation, collective…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Researchers, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach