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Direct linkObrovská, Jana; Aguiar, Cecília; Silva, Carla Sofia; Petrogiannis, Konstantinos – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Roma communities are a disadvantaged minority in Europe which is particularly underrepresented in social and educational research. This study aimed to investigate the predictors of Roma mothers' educational aspirations for their children in the Czech Republic, Greece, and Portugal. Participants included 461 mothers with a Roma background (135 from…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Aspiration, Parent Aspiration, Migrants
Šabic, Josip; Jokic, Boris – Educational Studies, 2021
This paper discusses the contributions of variables commonly used within the status attainment and blocked opportunities models in addition to school context variables in predicting pupils' aspirations for higher education prior to the transition to differentiated upper secondary education in Croatia (14-15 years). The findings, arising from a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary Education, Grade 8, Adolescents
Crosby, Danielle A.; Dunbar, Angel S. – Migration Policy Institute, 2012
Policy and academic interest in young children has grown substantially in recent years, prompted in part by advancements in the scientific understanding of early childhood and mounting evidence of the importance of early experiences for later development. Of particular concern is the finding that achievement disparities among different racial,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Pregnancy, Academic Aspiration, Immigrants
Peer reviewedMantzicopoulos, Panayota Y. – Early Education and Development, 1997
Examined contribution of family variables such as parenting and literacy activities to the pre-academic competence of 93 Head Start children. Found that maternal educational expectations, home literacy variables, and maternal school involvement were predictive of children's competence even after accounting for the effects of maternal education,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Family Environment, Mothers, Parent Aspiration
Flouri, Eirini – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Few studies have investigated if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to educational attainment via their impact on child's self-esteem and locus of control. Aims: (1) To investigate (after controlling for known confounding factors) the long-term effect of mother's and father's interest in child's…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Daughters, Cognitive Ability, Mothers
Peer reviewedFeldman, S. Shirley; Wood, Deborah N. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1994
Examined the nature and correlates of parents' expectations about adolescent sons' behavioral autonomy in a longitudinal study of 81 boys and their families, conducted when the boys were in 6th and 10th grade. Found that fathers' timetables for privileges at preadolescence predicted sons' midadolescent academic and social outcomes four years…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Fathers
