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Gong, Xin; Xu, Di; Han, Wen-Jui – Child Development, 2015
This article draws upon the literature showing the benefits of high-quality preschools on child well-being to explore the role of household income on preschool attendance for a cohort of 3-to 6-year-olds in China using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, 1991-2006. Analyses are conducted separately for rural (N = 1,791) and urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Preschool Education, Attendance
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Blackwell, Lisa S.; Trzesniewski, Kali H.; Dweck, Carol Sorich – Child Development, 2007
Two studies explored the role of implicit theories of intelligence in adolescents' mathematics achievement. In Study 1 with 373 7th graders, the belief that intelligence is malleable (incremental theory) predicted an upward trajectory in grades over the two years of junior high school, while a belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory)…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Intervention, Experimental Groups, Mathematics Achievement