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Predictive and Concurrent Relations between Literacy Skills in Grades 1 and 3: A Longitudinal Study of Italian Children
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Desimoni, Marta; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria; Orsolini, Margherita – Learning and Instruction, 2012
A sample of 170 Italian children was assessed for reading accuracy, reading speed, text comprehension and spelling in Grades 1 and 3 in order to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among literacy skills. Main results from multivariate analyses (regression, discriminant and path analyses) indicated that reading speed was the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Teachers' Goal Orientations for Teaching: Associations with Instructional Practices, Interest in Teaching, and Burnout
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Retelsdorf, Jan; Butler, Ruth; Streblow, Lilian; Schiefele, Ulrich – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Two studies (one longitudinal) were designed to extend Butler's model of teachers' goal orientations for teaching. In Study 1, results from 281 teachers in Germany confirmed the predicted four-factor model comprising mastery, ability-approach, ability-avoidance, and work-avoidance goal orientations. As expected, mastery orientation and work…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Goal Orientation, Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries
The Cross-Lagged Relations between Children's Academic Skill Development, Task-Avoidance, and Parental Beliefs about Success
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Magi, Katrin; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children's academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child's success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children's pre-skills were assessed at the end of the…
Descriptors: Homework, Mothers, Parent Participation, Kindergarten
Predictors of Mothers' and Fathers' Teaching of Reading and Mathematics during Kindergarten and Grade 1
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Silinskas, Gintautas; Leppanen, Ulla; Aunola, Kaisa; Parrila, Rauno; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The aim of the present longitudinal study was to investigate factors contributing to mothers' and fathers' teaching of reading and mathematics to their children during kindergarten and Grade 1. It was assumed that mothers' and fathers' teaching during kindergarten would be influenced by their socioeconomic status and their own learning…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Mothers, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Early Development of Quantity to Number-Word Linkage as a Precursor of Mathematical School Achievement and Mathematical Difficulties: Findings from a Four-Year Longitudinal Study
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Krajewski, Kristin; Schneider, Wolfgang – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This article reports results of a four-year longitudinal study that investigated the impact of specific and non-specific precursors on mathematical school achievement. Preschool quantity-number competencies (QNC) predicted mathematical achievement in primary school. Furthermore, basic arithmetic fact retrieval in Grade 1 had an impact on early…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Arithmetic, Nonverbal Ability, Kindergarten
Beginning to Read across Languages Varying in Orthographic Consistency: Comparing the Effects of Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Predictors
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Manolitsis, George; Georgiou, George; Stephenson, Kathy; Parrila, Rauno – Learning and Instruction, 2009
We examined whether the effect that different non-cognitive and cognitive factors have on reading acquisition varies as a function of orthographic consistency. Canadian (n = 77) and Greek (n = 95) children attending kindergarten were examined on general cognitive ability, phonological sensitivity, and letter knowledge. The parents of the children…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Grade 2