Sentences with phrase «on adolescent achievement»
Impact of parenting practices on adolescent achievement: authoritative parenting, school involvement, and encouragement to succeed.
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The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.
Nancy Hill, a leading scholar on the role culture plays in parenting and adolescent achievement, has been named a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective July 1, 2009.
Studies have not focused on young adolescents, the time when students are particularly sensitive to gender differences and when gender gaps in achievement are pronounced.
The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents,» American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011.
«To be effective,» says Hill, a leading scholar on parenting and adolescent achievement, «parents» strategies for staying involved in their children's education need to keep pace with the developmental changes that happen in the middle school years.
Drawing on participant observation among, interviews with, and resurveys of the same people surveyed in 1999, she is now examining how the parenting, gender socialization, educational experiences, academic achievement, and academic interests they had as adolescents shape their decisions about work, transnational migration, childbearing, parenting, health habits, and elder care now that they are young adults.
Although the study showed that parents» involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents» achievement, it did not rank as highly as parents conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations, and discussing learning strategies.
Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.
Hill was a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation's Distinguished Faculty Fellowship to support her engagement with the Massachusetts» Executive Office on Education on «Improving adolescents» academic achievement holistically: Inter-agency collaborations at the state and local levels.»
The effects of school, family, and community support on the academic achievement of African American adolescents.
Chapter 2: Effects of Young Adolescents» Perceived Motivators on Academic Achievement and Self - Efficacy Laila Y. Sanguras
More on these topics Achievement GapAssessmentCommon Core State StandardsCurriculumData - driven DecisionsDifferentiated InstructionDiversity and Social EquityDropout PreventionFamily and CommunityLeadershipMiddle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresPeer CoachingPLCsPovertyProfessional DevelopmentProfessional PreparationSchedulingSchool Culture / ClimateStudent LeadershipTeamingTransitions to / from Middle SchoolYoung Adolescent Development
Because she attends a magnet school for gifted adolescents, scores at the 99th percentile on achievement tests, has an IQ that indicates superior intelligence, is highly creative, and has extraordinary writing ability.
Among the goals of the guidelines are increased educational equity and a narrowing of the achievement gap between students at well - funded and poorly funded schools; enhanced parental and family influence on and engagement with homework practices; and a rebalancing of students» academic lives with their extra-curricular, family and community commitments and their developmental needs as children and adolescents.
A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.
Two studies found negative impacts on adolescents — decreases in school achievement and increases in behaviour problems.
Includes articles about family relatedness; family conflict and well - being; impact of interparental conflict and parental factors on child adjustment; discipline responses; parenting practices and adolescent depressive symptoms; adolescent self - esteem; achievement and self - perceptions; and racial preferences in media and peer choices.
This article reviews the literature on the relationship among parenting practices, parenting styles, and adolescent school achievement.
On the other hand, some studies have shown that family structure affects educational outcomes of children and adolescents besides other characteristics as self - efficacy and achievement orientation which may affect educational outcomes.
Adolescent depression was the primary interest, but data were collected on psychotic experiences, anxiety, conduct problems, educational achievement, substance abuse, self - harm, and physical health.
Finally, results evidenced significant effects for adolescents» and parental gender on achievement - oriented psychological control, with mothers rated higher than fathers by males and fathers rated higher than mothers by females.