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Guo, Xiaolin; Guo, Luyang; He, Surina; Liu, Chunhui; Luo, Liang – Educational Psychology, 2020
In the present study, we investigated the relationships among mothers' filial piety, mother-child discrepancy in perceived parental expectations, and children's academic achievement in 823 Chinese families. The results indicated that mothers' authoritarian filial piety hindered children's academic achievement, whereas reciprocal filial piety had…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Skillern, Sean; Carter, Erik W. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2021
The transition to adulthood can be a challenging time for adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Its complexity, however, may be magnified for families who have immigrated to the United States. This study examined the transition expectations and experiences of six first-generation, Latino parents and their transition-aged…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Parents, Adolescents
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Hillier, Cathlene – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
Parent engagement is often promoted as a remedy for reducing achievement gaps between students from high socio-economic and low socio-economic backgrounds. However, researchers have found mixed results when examining parent engagement and student outcomes. Drawing on a study investigating the effectiveness of summer literacy camps offered by…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Literacy, Summer Programs
Victoria A.S. Centurino – ProQuest LLC, 2021
More than ever before, countries are relying on their experts in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields to find solutions to serious global problems, such as climate change, hunger, and disease. Unfortunately, the growing demand for these experts is outpacing supply. At each stage in the educational pipeline from the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement
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Beswick, Kim; Wright, Suzie; Watson, Jane; Hay, Ian; Allen, Jeanne; Cranston, Neil – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
This research used the responses of 187 Tasmanian teachers to a questionnaire comprising 52-Likert-type items, two multiple-choice items, and two open-response items to investigate differences in teachers' beliefs about aspects of schooling related to students' secondary school completion. Exploratory factor analysis of responses to the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
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Yuanyuan Liu; Benjamin H. Nam; Yicheng Yang – Educational Review, 2024
Despite the promise of English language teaching and the use of English as a medium of instruction, concerns have been growing about the decline in the number of English majors as well as structural problems in elite language education reflected in the rural-urban divide and resulting educational gaps in China. The English education major at a top…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
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McIntosh, Shona; Hayden, Mary – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Recently, increases in numbers of international schools have been fuelled by a growth in numbers of aspirational families selecting them. The perception that international education affords children access to social advantages has been established in the school choice literature, but there has yet to be an examination of this trend in relation to…
Descriptors: International Schools, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Advantaged
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Sorayyaee, Laleh; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Akbari, Omid – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2022
Recent conceptualizations of L2 motivation have regarded target language learners' goal-directed visions as the core feature of directed motivational currents; that is, a period of intense and enduring motivation in pursuit of a favorable personal vision. This study reports on a multiple-case study designed to explore the effective factors on…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Kortney Tambara-Leviste – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is focused on understanding the expectations, beliefs, and motivations of parental involvement during the college choice process. Many high school students are under a lot of stress and pressure influenced by a culture of achievement. This culture has created a competitive college choice process and has intensified the role of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Parent Child Relationship, Grade 12, High School Students
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Darko, Christian K.; Vasilakos, Nicholas – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
We use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey to analyse the effect of socioeconomic conditions and gender on the educational performance of young children in India. In particular, we use data for standardised scores on two cognitive tests: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and a maths test. Our results show that there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Influences, Gender Differences
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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
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Pham, Cuong Huy – Learning: Research and Practice, 2023
Contemporary research has reiterated the complexity of motivation as shaped by an array of personal and contextual elements. Drawing on a person-in-context relational view, the present study aims to explore learners' motivational constructions through their ongoing interaction with significant others such as teachers, peers, parents and extended…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gupta, Achala – Educational Review, 2023
A growing body of research shows that private tutoring is a globally pervasive phenomenon. A common way in which tutoring provisions are defined is with the use of the metaphor "shadow education", signifying that tutoring centres "shadow" formal schools. Despite the popularity of this metaphor in the field, how…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Private Education, Ethnography, Alignment (Education)
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Liu, Junyan – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: Private supplementary tutoring has been increasingly used by parents as part of wider strategies to assist their children's education careers in China. With a theoretical lens of parentocracy, this article aimed to investigate the influential parental factors underlying the demand for private tutoring, focusing on parents' socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Supplementary Education, Tutoring
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Heni, Xiong; Xiaofang, Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Basil Bernstein argues that speech events bear class characteristics, and different social classes exhibit different linguistic typologies, coding and meaning. Although working-class language is characterized as a closed code in terms of its language structure, it possesses unique educational power, specifically manifesting as its unique meanings…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Class, Language Variation, Speech Communication
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