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Direct and Indirect Effects of Mother's Spatial Ability on Child's Spatial Ability: What Role Does the Home Environment Play?
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Nelcida L. Garcia-Sanchez; Anthony Steven Dick; Timothy Hayes; Shannon M. Pruden – Developmental Science, 2024
Individual differences in spatial thinking are predictive of children's math and science achievement and later entry into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Little is known about whether parent characteristics predict individual differences in children's spatial thinking. This study aims to understand whether,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mothers, Ability, Parent Influence
Is the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Student Achievement Causal? Considering Student and Parent Abilities
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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2020
Most studies on the relationship between students' socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement assume that its effects are sizable and causal. A large variety of theoretical explanations have been proposed. However, the SES-achievement association may reflect, to some extent, the inter-relationships of parents' abilities, SES, children's…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Ability
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised and Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery for Children: Intercorrelations for Normal Youngsters.
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Quattrocchi, Mary M.; Golden, Charles J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The relationship between scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) and Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery for Children was examined utilizing 86 normal children, including 55 females and 31 males from middle-class families. Significant relationships were predicted between the PPVT-R and the receptive scale on the…
Descriptors: Ability, Correlation, Educational Diagnosis, Intelligence Tests
Achievement and the Prediction of Achievement in English First and Second Language Children.
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Panunto, Brenda; White, Donna – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Twenty-nine first grade monolingual English speaking children and 59 English second language children (given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven Matrices in kindergarten) were tested via the Metropolitan Achievement Test to determine achievement levels of Italian children and the predictive relationship between measures of ability…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)