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Cross-Lagged Relationships between Academic Achievement and Perceived Parental Educational Expectations
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Bui, Khanh – Education, 2019
Cross-lagged relationships between academic achievement and perceived parental educational expectations were examined by using panel data from 5,312 students from the National Educational Longitudinal Study from when they were in Grades 8, 10, and 12. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) academic achievement would precede perceptions of parents'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expectation, Educational Attainment, Parent Child Relationship
Adolescent Student Burnout Inventory in Mainland China: Measurement Invariance across Gender and Educational Track
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Li, Bi; Wu, Yan; Wen, Zhonglin; Wang, Mengcheng – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
This article assessed the measurement in variance of the Adolescent Student Burnout Inventory (ASBI) across gender and educational track, and investigated the main and interaction effects of gender and educational track on the facets of student burnout with a sample consisting of 2,216 adolescent students from China. Multigroup confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Burnout, Measures (Individuals)
Influence of Conduct Problems and Depressive Symptomatology on Adolescent Substance Use: Developmentally Proximal versus Distal Effects
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Maslowsky, Julie; Schulenberg, John E.; Zucker, Robert A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The identification of developmentally specific windows at which key predictors of adolescent substance use are most influential is a crucial task for informing the design of appropriately targeted substance use prevention and intervention programs. The current study examined effects of conduct problems and depressive symptomatology on changes in…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Behavior Problems, Depression (Psychology), Marijuana
Making the Grade: Do Nebraska Teachers and Administrators Working in Public Schools in 7th-12th Grade Settings Agree about What Constitutes Sound Grading Practice?
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Olson, Mark E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this study, the researcher sought to determine whether Nebraska teachers and administrators agreed about what constitutes sound grading practice. The results of this study indicated that Nebraska teachers and administrators working in public schools in 7th-12th grade settings did not always agree about what constituted sound grading practice.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Grading, Public Schools
A Structural Equation Model of the Writing Process in Typically Developing Sixth Grade Children
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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
Increasing School Success through Partnership-Based Family Competency Training: Experimental Study of Long-Term Outcomes
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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