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von Otter, Cecilia – British Educational Research Journal, 2014
This paper draws on the concept of parental involvement, popular among educators and policy-makers, in investigating differences in level of attained education by family background. The question is if parental involvement in children's schooling at age 14 acts as a mediator between family resources and mid-life level of attained education. Using…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Educational Attainment, Parent Influence, Family Characteristics
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Giota, Joanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2010
In this study, first- and second-order confirmatory factor analyses were used to investigate the structure of the different types of academic, social, and future goals pursued by adolescents in school, and whether goals can be hierarchically organized. A multiple goals perspective on goal preferences was adopted. The study was based on 10,000…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis