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Kandice Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many people are unaware of the challenges associated with a special needs child being part of the family unit. Special-needs children require additional support and resources to meet their unique needs, which can have significant implications for the entire family. Current research through self-reported study (N = 51) findings under statistical…
Descriptors: Influences, Special Needs Students, Family Characteristics, Psychological Services
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Rui Li; Zong Meng; Yueqin Hu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Childhood is a critical period for the development of prosocial behavior, and the family serves as a crucial microsystem for fostering prosocial behavior in children. Prior research has indicated that parental monitoring, a specific family factor directly targeting children, can predict children's prosocial behavior. However, the influence of the…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Children, Family Influence, Behavior Development
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Ruth Elias – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The study examines the influence of family social capital on prospective university graduates' entrepreneurial intentions in Tanzania. The study also looks at the way entrepreneurial education amplifies the primary link between the study variables. Design/methodology/approach: Cross-sectional data were gathered at a specific period from…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Social Capital, Family Influence, Entrepreneurship
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Miguel Requena – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
This article extends our understanding of early school leaving in developed countries by analysing whether the risk of dropping out depends on family characteristics such as number of siblings and birth order. The study is based on a large sample of the 2011 Spanish census and estimates the relative risks of early school leaving using Poisson…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Siblings, Foreign Countries, Dropouts
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Cain, Elise J.; Class, Samantha – Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 2023
Rural students graduate high school at a rate comparable to their urban and suburban peers; however, people from rural areas attend college at the lowest rate. Due to this discrepancy and the ever-growing importance of postsecondary education, this article summarizes and synthesizes works on the college enrollment of students from rural areas. The…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, Rural Areas, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education
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A. González-Moreira; C. Ferreira; J. Vidal – Preventing School Failure, 2025
The transition from early childhood education to primary education is, in many countries, the beginning of compulsory education. This has meant that much of the research on this transition has focused on academic aspects such as literacy or logical-mathematical competence. The lines of research have changed, and in recent years, very diverse…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, School Readiness
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Helland, Håvard; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Many studies have found a greater risk of dropping out among students from modest social origins compared to those from families characterized by high levels of education. This paper investigates social differences in student completion rates in short professional programmed, such as nursing, social work, early childhood and primary school teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Time to Degree, Family Influence
Madrid, Javier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Latino population is a rapidly growing group in California, yet the rates of Latino student athletes competing at the NCAA Division I level is maintaining an alarmingly low percentage. The discrepancy in these numbers continues to have a substantial impact on the college completion rate of Latino students. The problem addressed in this study…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Disproportionate Representation, Student Athletes, College Athletics
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Zeng Guohua; Zeng Jingyan; Wu Wenwen – SAGE Open, 2024
Educational process inequality is an important branch of higher education fairness and the role difference of student leaders is one of the important phenomena of educational process inequality. Based on the employment administrative data of 2018 college graduates in a province in central China, this paper investigates the relationship between…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Parent Background, College Students, Student Leadership
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Arslan, Adem; Özyürek, Arzu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
This study aims to investigate the relationship between the positive childhood experiences of young people and family values. In the quantitative research design, descriptive and relational screening method was used in the study, and the study group consisted of 753 university students aged 18-25. Data were collected using the Positive Childhood…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Family Influence, College Students, Family Characteristics
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Ndijuye, Laurent Gabriel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
School readiness of children from refugee backgrounds is not well documented throughout the sub-Saharan region. While evidence has documented the role of home learning environments on learning, little is known about the role of family socioeconomic status. The study recruited 400 pre-primary children, 100 parents, 16 teachers and 8 school…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Refugees, Learning Experience, Socioeconomic Status
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Samiullah; Haidar, Sham – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
English writing skills are important in English language teaching due to the practice of evaluating students' academic performance in English writing both of other subjects' content knowledge and of English language itself. However, students come to high schools with baggage of varying linguistics competencies due to differential exposure to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Writing Skills, Social Stratification
Christopher D. Jacobsen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Rural undergraduates lag behind urban and suburban undergraduates across many measures of college success, even though they graduate from high school at a higher rate. While a small but growing body of research literature addresses the challenges and barriers rural students face during the college process, few, if any, studies have focused…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Stopouts, Rural Areas, Phenomenology
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Liang, Qianlin; Niu, Weihua; Cheng, Li; Qin, Kexin – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2022
The present research involved two studies that investigated the creativity development of Chinese children and young adolescents (9-14 years old). It was hypothesized that family socio-economic status (SES), perceived parenting (e.g., parental autonomy support, involvement, and overcontrol), and after-school activities contribute to the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Family Characteristics, Family Influence, Child Rearing
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Angela Frederick; Angelica Monarrez; Danielle X. Morales – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
Hispanic/Latine young adults remain severely under-represented in STEM fields. While structural barriers contributing to these disparities have been thoroughly examined in previous research, the current study brings focus to the strategies young adults employ to navigate the incongruence between the cultures of higher education and STEM and the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Latin American Culture, Disproportionate Representation, College Graduates
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