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Tracking Vocabulary and Reading Growth in Children from Lower and Higher Socioeconomic Backgrounds during the Transition from Primary to Secondary Education
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van der Kleij, Sanne W.; Burgess, Adrian P.; Ricketts, Jessie; Shapiro, Laura R. – Child Development, 2023
We examined the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), vocabulary, and reading in middle childhood, during the transition from primary (elementary) to secondary (high) school. Children (N = 279, 163 girls) completed assessments of everyday and curriculum-related vocabulary, (non)word reading, and reading comprehension at five timepoints from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Promotion, Socioeconomic Status, Secondary Education
Patterns of Competence and Adjustment among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Families.
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Lamborn, Susie D.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Of 4,100 adolescents, those who characterized their parents as authoritative scored highest on psychosocial competence and lowest on behavioral dysfunction. The reverse was true for neglected adolescents. Adolescents from authoritarian homes scored high on obedience but low on self-perception. Adolescents from indulgent homes evidenced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Authoritarianism, Behavior Problems
Relations between Moral Judgment, Moral Courage, and Field Independence.
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Gibbs, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines the relationship of moral judgement to moral action as well as to certain cognitive style variables. A total of 134 male and female eleventh- and twelfth-graders completed measures of moral judgement, field dependence-independence, and other variables, and nominated teachers who then rated the students for tendency to evidence morally…
Descriptors: Field Dependence Independence, Measures (Individuals), Moral Development, Moral Values
Development of Adolescents' Self-Perceptions, Values, and Task Perceptions According to Gender and Domain in 7th- through 11th-Grade Australian Students
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Watt, Helen M. G. – Child Development, 2004
Latent growth models estimated developmental trajectories for adolescents' math and English self-perceptions (perceived talent, success expectancies), values (intrinsic, utility) and task perceptions (task difficulty, effort required). A longitudinal cohort-sequential study included 1,323 participants spanning Grades 7 to 11, with Occasion 1 mean…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Gender Differences, Self Concept, Adolescent Development
Structure and Sequence of Formal and Postformal Thought: General Patterns and Individual Differences.
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Demetriou, Andreas; Efklides, Anastasia – Child Development, 1985
A total of 400 subjects differing in age, sex, and SES were tested on strategic, relational, experimental, and postformal abilities. Results showed that Demetriou and Efklides' model of the development of formal thought could be integrated with theories claiming that thought is structured in different inquiring systems and develops postformally as…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents.
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Wolfson, Amy R.; Carskadon, Mary A. – Child Development, 1998
Studied relationship between adolescents' sleep/wake habits and daytime functioning. Found that self-reported total sleep times decreased from age 13 to 19 years. Struggling or failing students obtained less sleep, went to bed later, and had greater weekend delays of sleep than those with better grades. Students with inadequate sleep reported…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development
Longitudinal Assessment of Autonomy and Relatedness in Adolescent-Family Interactions as Predictors of Adolescent Ego Development and Self-Esteem.
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Allen, Joseph P.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Seventy-seven adolescents in 2-parent families and their parents were observed in a revealed-differences interaction task when the adolescents were age 14, and the adolescents' ego development and self-esteem were assessed at both age 14 and 16. Adolescents' displays of autonomy and relatedness were strongly related to concurrent measures of ego…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Relationship, Longitudinal Studies