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"I Won't Won't Be Writing": Young Authors Enact Meaningful Work
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Elizabeth L. Jaeger – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
The article considers the beliefs and practices of elementary-aged children who write for personal fulfillment. Mobilizing Lips-Wiersma's (Lips-Wiersma & Morris, 2011) notion of "meaningful work," I examine the ways in which these children experienced writing and sharing their work in a voluntary after school writing workshop and at…
Descriptors: Children, Writing (Composition), After School Education, Home Study
Development and Validation of the Online Learning Process Questionnaire (OLPQ) at Home for Primary-School Children and Their Caregivers
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Lam, Joseph Hin Yan; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Learning Environments Research, 2023
Despite the increasing use of virtual modalities in schools since the COVID-19 pandemic, no systematic tools exist to evaluate the process of online learning. We developed and validated an Online Learning Process Questionnaire (OLPQ) for assessing online at-home learning among 219 Hong Kong primary-school students and 474 caregivers. Exploratory…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity, Electronic Learning
Children's Engineering Identity Development within an At-Home Engineering Program during COVID-19
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Simpson, Amber; Knox, Peter N. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2022
The culture of engineering and the culture of formal learning environments often make it difficult for individuals to develop an engineering identity. Conversely, recent research points to the home environment as an alternative setting to support discipline-specific identity development of children, while less is known regarding the identity…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
The Effects of Private Tutoring on Students' Perception of Their Parents' Academic Involvement and the Quality of Their Parent-Child Relationship
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Otto, Barbara; Karbach, Julia – Educational Psychology, 2019
The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of private tutoring on parental involvement and the parent-child relationship. Seventy-six students voluntarily participated in the longitudinal study (38 students newly signed up for private tutoring and a matched control group). Data were collected with a student questionnaire that was…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Tutors, Private Education, Student Attitudes
Relationships between Home Literacy Practices and School Achievement: Implications for Consultation and Home-School Collaboration
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Alston-Abel, Nicole Lynn; Berninger, Virginia W. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2018
In a 5-year longitudinal study of typical literacy development (Grades 1-5 or 3-7), relationships were examined between (a) parental responses to questionnaires about home literacy activities and ratings of children's self-regulation at home, both completed annually by the same parent, and (b) children's reading and writing achievement assessed…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Questionnaires, Writing Achievement
Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America
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Rideout, Victoria – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2014
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has conducted a national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 to find out how much of children's media time is devoted to educational content, platform by platform, age by age. "Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America" is the first comprehensive analysis of parents'…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Mass Media Use, Family Involvement, Family Characteristics