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Demographic, Psychological Factors and English Proficiency of ESL Students
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Serquina, Evelyn A.; Batang, Boyet L. – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Difficulty in expressing oneself using the International language is a continuing issue in classroom situations. The descriptive research design using correlational method was employed in this study. Point-biserial correlation was used to determine the degree of relationship between sex and nature of parents' occupation and psychological and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Reconceptualizing Parent Involvement: Parent as Accomplice or Parent as Partner?
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Stitt, Nichole M.; Brooks, Nancy J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
Policy statements of the last two decades have directed schools to enter into partnerships with parents to enhance the social, emotional, and academic growth of their children. However, in practice and scholarship, parental involvement has been constructed as attendance to school-based activities and needs. This article draws on data from an…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, Case Studies, One Parent Family
Intellectual Development within Transracial Adoptive Families: Retesting the Confluence Model.
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Berbaum, Michael L.; Moreland, Richard L. – Child Development, 1985
Estimates confluence model of intellectual development for a within-family sample of 321 children from 101 transracial adoptive families. Mental ages of children and their parents and birth or adoption intervals were used in a nonlinear least-squares estimation procedure to obtain children's predicted mental ages. Results suggest efficiency of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Children, Cognitive Development, Family Influence
Teaching Parents a Strategy for Enhancing Infant Development.
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Metzl, Marilyn Newman – Child Development, 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
The Cognitive Structure of Parenthood: The Development of a Descriptive Measure.
Newberger, Carolyn Moore – 1979
This paper describes the process of constructing a measure of a new construct called Parental Awareness. Parental Awareness (PA) can be thought of as an organized knowledge system with which the parent makes sense out of the child's responses and behavior and formulates policies to guide parental action. A clinical method of data collection,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Parent-Infant Resemblance for General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in the Colorado Adoption Project.
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Thompson, Lee Anne; And Others – Intelligence, 1985
Separate dimensions of infant cognition were compared with parental general- and specific-cognitive abilities for 182 adoptive and 164 nonadoptive families. More parent-offspring resemblance was present when 24- rather than 12-month Bayley factors were used. Bayley factors were more related to parental g than to specific abilities. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Biological Parents, Cognitive Ability, Correlation