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Koutsoftas, Anthony D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Educational reform initiatives of the last decade have focused on the three R's: reading, writing, and arithmetic, with writing receiving the least attention in the research literature (National Commission on Writing, 2003). Studies of writing performance in United States schoolchildren indicate that many are writing only at basic levels. The…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Structural Equation Models, Written Language, Pathology
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Spoth, Richard; Randall, G. Kevin; Shin, Chungyeol – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
An expanding body of research suggests an important role for parent or family competency training in children's social-emotional learning and related school success. This article summarizes a test of a longitudinal model examining partnership-based family competency training effects on academic success in a general population. Specifically, it…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement