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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Parents Beliefs"”.
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Parents' Beliefs and Knowledge Regarding Child Development and Appropriate Early Childhood Classroom Practices
The intent of this study was to assess low-income parents knowledge and beliefs regarding child development and appropriate classroom practice and to compare their responses with those obtained from a previous survey of upper-income parents (Grebe, 1998). This study group (N=21) consisted of …
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Parental emotion socialization in Chinese and US families: Roles of parents' beliefs about emotions and self-construals
… socialization (ES) to clarify how and why parents engage in ES practices. Furthermore, emotions occur within cultural contexts. Recent work has drawn attention to the importance of cross-cultural research for developmental science. Consistent with these calls for research, I examined …
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Independent and interdependent self-construals as moderators of links between parents' beliefs about emotions and their emotion socialization behaviors in Chinese families
… examined a moderated mediation model whereby parents’ independent and interdependent self-construals were proposed to moderate associations of parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions with parents’ ES, which in turn relate to children’s social competence. Seventy-five Chinese parents (65 …
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Parental Emotion Socialization of Seventh and Eighth Graders: Gender Differences in Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals
… the present study was to assess linkages between parents' beliefs about children's emotions, parent-child discourse, and children's independent and interdependent self-construals with sixty 7th and 8th grade children. Children were interviewed with the Self-Guide Questionnaire (Higgins, Klein, & …
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Getting Ready for School: A Cross -Cultural Comparison of Parent and Child Beliefs About and Preparations for Entry Into First Grade
"This study clearly shows the link between parents' beliefs and actual practices. Furthermore, it shows differences in parental practices and beliefs between locations within China, whose national curriculum should increase similarities across locations. The differences between locations in China …
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Parent-Childcare Provider Partnerships: Exploring Beliefs About Overlap
This study examined the beliefs held by parents and childcare providers regarding continuity between home and childcare environments. The study was divided into two parts. Part one investigated the question of what overlap areas do parents and providers believe to be important. Data was collected …
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Identifying social, cultural, and pedagogical factors that contribute to minority students' low academic achievement
… The data analysis method assessed students' and parents' beliefs as to the cause of poor academic motivation and performance in relation to the academic achievement gap. The survey responses revealed several ideas and suggestions that may be instrumental in improving students' overall motivation …
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Promoting Parental Involvement and Students Success in School: What Teachers Can Do
Parents’ active involvement in their children’s education strongly correlates with student success in school (Abel, 2012; Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler, 1997; Zhan, 2005). Despite the benefits of parent involvement (PI), a variety of factors limit and discourage parents from taking an active role in …
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An assessment of parent's beliefs about child development among families participating in the Comprehensive Health Investment Project
… life performance outcomes, both for children and parents. One such program, the Comprehensive Health Investment Project (CHIP) in Roanoke, Virginia, works to provide primary physician care to low income young children. One of CHIP's objectives is to enhance parenting skills so that parents can …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
… settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices across these settings in the Chinese community in U.S. Taking a …
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Mothers' beliefs about emotions, mother-child emotion discourse, and children's emotion understanding in Latino families
… associations between acculturation, parental beliefs, mother-child emotion talk, and emotion understanding in Latino preschool-aged children. Research on Latino families may prove to be important given the little research that has focused on emotion understanding strictly in Latino cultures. …
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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Home Literacy Experiences Relate to Children's Literacy Skills?
This study examined the relationship among parents' literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely …
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Theoretical Orientations to Reading and Reading Instructional Practices of Selected Home-Education Parents in Southwest Michigan
… sought to determine <br />(1) home educators' beliefs about reading, <br />(2) their reading instructional practices, and <br />(3) the consistency between parents' beliefs and practice.</p> <p>Method. This study used multiple sources of data. Demographic information was collected from 78 …
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The Development of Judgments and Beliefs about Homosexuality
… adolescents' (13-14-year-olds), and their parents' beliefs about same-sex relationships. In particular, participants' beliefs about the acceptability and legal regulation of homosexuality, their beliefs about tolerating someone with anti-gay attitudes and excluding someone on the basis of …
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Academic socialization and the transition to elementary school : parents' conceptions of school readiness, practices, and children's academic achievement trajectories
… Terry-Humen, Lavelle, & Calkins, 2006). Although parents' socioeconomic status and level of education are related to their children's early achievement, home-based parental involvement during early childhood also contributes to children's school readiness (Rouse et al., 2005). Taylor, Clayton, and …
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Reframing School Readiness: Case Studies of African-American and Latina Head Start Parents
… study approach to examine the school readiness beliefs of African-American and Latina Head Start parents. The guiding research questions were: How do parents conceptualize school readiness and transition practices? Two sub questions were asked: (1) What specific behaviors do parents use to …
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Understanding the schooling and literacy beliefs, behaviors, and self-efficacy of early head start parents using confirmatory factor analysis: A pilot survey study
… of Georgia, possess and perform nonmainstream beliefs and behaviors that researchers and educators are unaware of and do not value at school (Compton-Lilly, 2009). Therefore, the purpose of this research endeavor was to develop a valid and reliable survey that measures parental behaviors and …
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Parental reading beliefs, home literacy practices, and children's development: Examination of a parental reading beliefs model in China
… United States demonstrate that parental reading beliefs are significantly influenced by demographic characteristics, and their beliefs are significant predictors of home literacy practices and children's literacy development. Based on these findings, a model of parental reading beliefs was …
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Cross-Cultural Differences in the Determinants of Maternal Emotion Coaching: Role of Maternal Emotional Awareness and Emotion Regulation
… To measure emotion coaching, mothers completed Parents' Beliefs about Children's Emotions questionnaire. Structural equation models were estimated to examine how maternal emotional awareness and emotion regulation related to emotion coaching. Results confirmed the reliability and validity of the …
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