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Sok, Serey; Chhinh, Nyda; Cheb, Hoeurn; Bo, Chankoulika; Nguonphan, Pheakdey – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: This study analyzes the significance of various attributes of developmental psychology developed by male and female students within higher education institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia. It also focuses on the mismatch between planned enrollments and the final selection of a course, and the knowledge and skills accessed during the study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, College Admission, Educational Quality
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Creech, Andrea – Music Education Research, 2010
The aims of this research were to identify the ways in which parents may most constructively support their children's musical development, and to ascertain whether styles of parent-teacher and parent-pupil interaction would influence the extent to which parents engage in different types of supportive behaviours. A model of parent involvement as…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation
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McCall, Robert B.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1973
This project investigated patterns of IQ change in normal, middle class children between ages 2 1/2 to 17 in a longitudinal study. The children changed an average of 28.5 IQ points during the course of the study. Parental influences and general environmental circumstances were seen as influential variables shaping a child's intellectual growth.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Environmental Influences, Heredity, Intellectual Development
Renaud, Harriet – 1967
There is increasing evidence that significant personality changes take place during adolescence and early adulthood. Among 10,000 high school seniors tested, the group intending to go to college differed in ability, socioeconomic background, parental encouragement, academic motivation and attitudes from those going on to jobs or homemaking.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Motivation
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Lynn, David B. – School Review, 1972
Concerned with the intellectual development of women and suggests that its principal determinants are biologically rooted potentials, parent-child relationships and both parent and subtle cultural reinforcement. (Editors)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Females, Intellectual Development
Campbell, Frances A. – 1978
The primary purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of infant test scores, Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) scores, socioeconomic factors and maternal IQ as predictors of children's mental test performance. Additional purposes were to (1) determine the extent to which socioeconomic factors and maternal…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient
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Poresky, Robert H.; Henderson, Michael L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The relationships between infants' development and their home environment, mothers' attitudes as parents, mothers' mental adjustment, and families' socioeconomic status were studied. Indices of intellectual and psychomotor development were related to home environment, socioeconomic status, and maternal attitudes. The implications of these…
Descriptors: Infants, Intellectual Development, Mothers, Parent Attitudes
Athey, Irene J.; Trent, James W. – 1966
Because the phenomenon of delayed graduation--the practice of prolonging the college career beyond the normal 4 years of undergraduate study--is so widespread researchers speculated that "continuers" might have certain common characteristics which would differentiate them as a group from "completers." The objective of this…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Family Influence, Higher Education
Sheldon, M. Stephen; And Others – 1972
A study was conducted to investigate the predictive validity of parents' ability to attend to their children (ATA) on intelligence and to determine to what extent ATA and social class variables, in combination, can account for the discrepancy in the IQ scores of children of different races. Ss were 700 Head Start children. The criterion variables…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Intellectual Development, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
Yahraes, Herbert – 1978
This brief report summarizes the findings and conclusions of studies concerning the relation between birth order and various aspects of personality and intellectual development. Major topics discussed are the relation between birth order of the child and: (1) the effects of sex and spacing between siblings on personality characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Birth Order, Conformity, Family Characteristics
Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M. – 1974
The present investigation examined the ability of the Inventory of Home Stimulation (STIM) to predict changes in relative mental test performance of children between 6 months old and 36 months of age. The six STIM subscales were used in discriminant analysis to classify infants into three groups (gainers, stable, losers) in terms of their change…
Descriptors: Child Development, Environmental Influences, Family Environment, Infant Behavior
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined differences in intelligence test scores of black and white five-year-olds born premature with low birth weight. Found that black children's IQ scores were 1 SD lower than those of white children. Adjustments for ethnic differences in poverty reduced the differential by half; adjustments for differences in home environment reduced it by…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment, Intellectual Development
Reis, Myrna; Gold, Dolores – 1971
This study examines the effect of paternal availability on the son's development. It was hypothesized that the son of the more available father would have better problem-solving ability and a more masculine orientation than the son of the less available father. The subjects were 30 four-five year olds and their parents. A questionnaire was given…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Children, Developmental Psychology, Fathers
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Burchinal, Margaret R.; Campbell, Frances A.; Bryant, Donna M.; Wasik, Barbara H.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1997
Examined influences on African-American children's cognitive development between 6 months and 8 years. Found that more optimal patterns of development were associated with intensive early educational child care, responsive home stimulation, and higher maternal IQ. Child care experiences were related to cognitive performance through enhancing…
Descriptors: Black Students, Blacks, Children, Cognitive Development
Waller, Patricia F. – NASSP Bull, 1969
Part II of a 3-part report. See also AA 501 768, AA 501 770, AA 501 771, and AA 501 772.
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Intellectual Development, Intelligence, Learning Motivation
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