Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children's education and learning. Chapters explore how factors including parent-child communication, cultural and parental expectations, as well as…

This study undertook to identify parental perceptions of variables related to their child's education and to determine differences in perceptions of groups of parents categorized by grade level, race, and sex of the child. Survey questionnaires were distributed to parents of the students at Marvin Pittman Laboratory School, a K-8 school with 457…

A study investigated early aspects of Type A behavior by assessing children's goal setting and parents' aspirations for their children. Teachers of 73 fourth through sixth grade children rated them for Type A behavior. A replication study of parental aspiration findings was conducted. Results show fathers may strongly influence development of Type…

The extent to which students' home characteristics, school factors, teaching and learning variables account for the variance of a measure of students' (n=2059) attitude toward science was investigated. The results indicate that most students come from homes that may not foster positive attitudes toward science and that variables that could lead to…

Many educators agree that parental involvement is an important factor in a child's achievement in school. Views of the quantity of involvement differ. This one-semester study was designed to determine if parental knowledge of classroom objectives would significantly influence student achievement in physical science. Thirty-three physical science…

Japanese children are socialized to internalize parental, group, and institutional norms. Japanese adults believe "good" children to be sunao (cooperative). Sunao is difficult to translate into English, but can be thought of as being gentle and spirited. This paper presents a study that examined and described feelings and thoughts of…

Data from 108 university students who intended to become parents and teachers showed that the gender of a young child elicited differential academic beliefs, and that female and male aspiring parents and teachers tended to have different academic beliefs about young children. Discusses the relationship between socialization practices and…

This report contains a summary of findings from a study conducted in California and Nevada to investigate attitudes towards mathematics and extent of parental influence on three groups of high school students--high math-achieving males (N=59), high math-achieving feamles (N=44), and high verbal/low math females (N=27). Differences between Asian…