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Terri J. Sabol; Elise Chor; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Lauren A. Tighe; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Amanda Sheffield Morris; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Christopher King – Child Development, 2024
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program Career"Advance"--which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children--on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
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Lee, Hae Yeon; Jamieson, Jeremy P.; Miu, Adriana S.; Josephs, Robert A.; Yeager, David S. – Child Development, 2019
Grades often decline during the high school transition, creating stress. The present research integrates the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat with the implicit theories model to understand who shows maladaptive stress responses. A diary study measured declines in grades in the first few months of high school: salivary cortisol…
Descriptors: Prediction, High School Students, Student Adjustment, Stress Variables
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Connolly, Eric J.; Beaver, Kevin M. – Child Development, 2015
Few studies have examined the relation between maternal caloric intake during pregnancy and growth in child academic achievement while controlling for important confounding influences. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the current study examined the effects of reduced prenatal caloric intake on growth in scores on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Young Children, Preadolescents, Adolescents
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Pekrun, Reinhard; Lichtenfeld, Stephanie; Marsh, Herbert W.; Murayama, Kou; Goetz, Thomas – Child Development, 2017
A reciprocal effects model linking emotion and achievement over time is proposed. The model was tested using five annual waves of the Project for the Analysis of Learning and Achievement in Mathematics (PALMA) longitudinal study, which investigated adolescents' development in mathematics (Grades 5-9; N = 3,425 German students; mean starting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Emotional Development, Mathematics Achievement
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Reynolds, Arthur J.; Hayakawa, Momoko; Ou, Suh-Ruu; Mondi, Christina F.; Englund, Michelle M.; Candee, Allyson J.; Smerillo, Nicole E. – Child Development, 2017
We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive preschool to third grade prevention program for the goals of sustaining services at a large scale. The Midwest Child-Parent Center (CPC) Expansion is a multilevel collaborative school reform model designed to improve school achievement and parental involvement from ages…
Descriptors: Scaling, Sustainability, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Cheung, Cecilia S.-S.; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Dong, Wei – Child Development, 2013
The role of adolescents' disclosure to their parents in their academic adjustment was examined in a study of 825 American and Chinese adolescents (mean age = 12.73 years). Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, adolescents reported on their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities to their parents, the quality of their relationships…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Chen, Xinyin; Chang, Lei; Liu, Hongyun; He, Yunfeng – Child Development, 2008
This longitudinal study examined, in a sample of Chinese children (initial mean ages = 9.5 and 12.7 years, N = 505), how the peer group contributed to social functioning and academic achievement and their associations. Data on informal peer groups, social functioning, and academic achievement were collected from multiple sources. Multilevel…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Peer Groups, Social Development
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Chien, Nina C.; Mistry, Rashmita S. – Child Development, 2013
The effects of geographic variations in cost of living and family income on children's academic achievement and social competence in first grade (mean age = 86.9 months) were examined, mediated through material hardship, parental investments, family stress, and school resources. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Family Income, Economic Climate, Interpersonal Competence
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Wentzel, Kathryn R. – Child Development, 2002
Examined the utility of parent socialization models for understanding effects of middle school teachers on student adjustment. Found that five teaching dimensions (modeling of motivation, and parenting dimensions of control, maturity demands, democratic communication, and nurturance) predicted student motivation, social behavior, and achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Gutman, Leslie Morrison; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Child Development, 1999
Tested equivalence of theoretical model of parenting behaviors linking financial strain to adolescents' achievement for African American and European American families and single- and two-parent families. Found no significant differences in structural equation models between ethnic/racial groups or between family types. Negative parent-adolescent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Youth, Family Financial Resources
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Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Addresses the influence of cultural and ecological backgrounds, as mediated by the family, on children's achievement. Contrasts models used to explain academic successes and failures of African-American and Asian-American children. (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural Differences
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Coates, Deborah L.; Lewis, Michael – Child Development, 1984
Explores whether transactional/interactional, environmental, or developmental status models best represent growth from infancy to early childhood. Attempts to identify features of the social environment important for specific developmental outcomes. Observations of interactions between 40 mothers and their three-month-old infants were used to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Infants
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Rhodes, Jean E.; Grossman, Jean B.; Resch, Nancy L. – Child Development, 2000
Compared conceptual models examining the role of improved parent-child relationships in the relations between mentoring partnerships and academic outcomes of adolescent applicants to Big Brothers Big Sisters programs. Found that mentoring led to reduced unexcused absences and improved perceived scholastic competence. Mentoring effects were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Change Agents, Early Adolescents
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Svanum, Soren; And Others – Child Development, 1982
The effects of father absence on educational achievement and intellectual development of 6- to 11-year-old children were investigated by employing a nationally representative sample of 5,493 father-present and 616 father-absent children from the Health Examination Survey of the National Center for Health Statistics. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined relationships between family financial resources, academic competence, and socioemotional adjustment during early adolescence. Subjects were 90 African American youths and their married parents in the rural South. Found that parents with greater financial resources were less depressed and more optimistic, and their children were better…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Child Rearing
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