This study investigated the effect of using predictable stories as reading materials on the oral and emergent literacy development of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) beginners. A child-centered, literature-based curriculum integrating whole language philosophy was developed for a group of kindergarten students at a public high school in Taipei,…

This study used data from the National Survey of America's Families to examine contemporaneous relationships between patterns of parent work and positive child outcomes among low-income families by focusing on how parents organized their work schedules, relationships between patterns of parent work and child wellbeing, and relationships between…

This paper describes a longitudinal case study that examined the various products that a primary grade student created as he co-researched with his teacher how to implement self-selected science inquiry in a suburban first grade classroom in New Jersey. Transcriptions of science presentations and interviews, parent and student reflection, and the…

This information brief discusses the parental role in supporting a postsecondary student with a disability. It stresses that parents continue to be important role models and guides for their young adult sons and daughters and that parents may be a key part of the support network students with disabilities need to succeed in the postsecondary…

This study examined the emotional tone and degree of influence in adolescents' relationships with parents and friends. Early adolescent relationships were compared to middle adolescent relationships, and at both ages, relationships with mothers, fathers, and friends were compared. Using a self-report questionnaire, seventh- and tenth-grade…

This study employed self-reports from seventh- and tenth-graders to examine parents' level of education and features of parent-adolescent relationships as predictors of adolescents' academic performance. Features of parent-adolescent relationships were assessed as follows: mothers' and fathers' influence with respect to academic performance,…

This study examined associations between parent-child relationships and adolescents' academic performance. Adolescents in 7th and 10th grade completed self-report questionnaires assessing 6 features of parent-adolescent relationships: time spent together, number of activities, degree of influence, frequency of experiencing positive emotions,…

This study investigated practices, attitudes, and behaviors that experienced teachers used to motivate middle school students. Participants were 10 teachers from one Virginia middle school. The teachers' classroom behaviors and teacher-student interactions were observed. Teachers completed interviews that asked about: their definition of…

This guide offers a collection of resources gathered as part of the effort to create the ResilienceNet Web site on the resilience of children and families. The introduction to the guide describes the partnership between ASSIST INTERNATIONAL, INC. and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education that led to the development of…

Paper prepared for Conference on Student Subcultures, University of California, Berkeley, February 23-25, 1968.

Of the four kinds of family education identified by psychological analysis--authoritarianism, tutelage, peaceful coexistence, and cooperation--it is cooperation that is most satisfactory from the standpoint of Soviet educational principles and psychology. Essential features of a family as a group and Soviet family educational tactics are examined.…

Findings indicate that high-risk infants are not exposed to greater exogenous stress during the prenatal and perinatal periods, although subsequent caregiving provided by disturbed mothers may not be optimal. Several findings point to the existence of a constitutionally vulnerable subgroup of high-risk infants. (Author/RH)

A study explored attitudes and perceptions that may influence how University of Maryland students utilize dental services. Significant variables included: (1) students' attitudes toward dentists; (2) mother's visits to dentists; (3) dental problems experienced the previous year; (4) dental anxiety; (5) sex; and (6) perceptions of the number and…

In a sample of low-income Black families in Gary, Indiana, the number of years of schooling completed by mothers is found to be positively related to the cognitive skills of their children. This relationship partly reflects environmental influences, such as the quality of maternal care. (Author/RW)

Proposes an interdisciplinary conceptual foundation for studying parental heritage. Defines parental heritage as the intentional transmission of valued psychological and material assets from parent to child. Suggests advances in the realm of parental heritage are dependent on clarification of the complex interactions among such sociohistorical,…