Investigates the relationship between parents' educational expectations and children's academic achievement. The antecedents of parents' expectations (feedback from school, parents' own aspirations, and parental knowledge) and the factors mediating between these expectations and achievement (achievement-supporting behaviors, differential…

This study investigated six differences in the effects of parents' educational expectations and relationship with parents on 105 young Israeli adolescents. Results showed differences in both aspects of family learning environment, including a negative relation for females and a positive relation for males between realistic expectations and…

Path analysis of data collected on fifth grade boys indicated that mothers' educational expectations were strongly related to sons' academic performance. Results were related to a model which conceptualized two classes of parental behaviors as determining children's academic achievement: instigating behaviors and responsive behaviors. (Author/DST)