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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"parental expectations"”.
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Parental Expectations of Secondary School Counselors
… research has been conducted with regard to parental expectations of school counselors and no research exists in how expectancy theory relates to parental motivation. The primary purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore parental expectations of the secondary school counselor's roles …
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Parental Expectations of High School Interscholastic Athletic Activities
… athletic programs. In order to determine what parental expectations are of high school sports, parents from three schools within the same school division who had children who participated in a team sport during the 1997-1998 school year were surveyed by mail. The survey attempted to determine …
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Anxiety in childhood: parental expectations, differential parenting and siblings
… empirical evidence for the association between parental expectations of their child‟s anxious cognitions and child anxiety was reviewed. Part two is an empirical paper, which explores anxiety in siblings, perceived differential parenting, fairness of parenting and self-esteem. Part three …
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Special Education Teachers' Perceptions of Role Dissonance and Parental Expectations
… five years, examining their experiences with parental involvement and strategies for overcoming role dissonance. Using interpretive grounded theory methodology, the study conducted two rounds of semi-structured interviews with participants ranging from 6 to 27 years of teaching experience. The …
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Responsiveness in American schools overseas: discrepancies between parental expectations and school performance
The purpose of the study was to determine the educational priorities of parents with children enrolled in American Sponsored Overseas Schools in South America, and to compare those priorities with their perceptions of school performance. Responsiveness was defined as the relationship between …
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Parental Expectations and Satisfaction with Charter Schools-Evidence From a Midwestern City School District
The topic of this study is to determine what the parental expectations are for charter schools and whether or not those parents are satisfied given those expectations. This study focuses on three central questions: First, what are the parental expectations that are related to satisfaction with …
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Parental expectations and aspirations for their children’s educational attainment: an examination of the college-going mindset among parents.
The purpose of this study was to explore parental aspirations and expectations for their children's educational attainment, in addition to examining parent-reported knowledge and understanding of college readiness and preparation. This study consisted of 598 parents of students in 8th-10th grade …
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Influences of Personal Standards and Perceived Parental Expectations on Worry for Asian American and White American College Students
… for academic success and higher levels of parental expectations and criticism compared to White Americans. Moreover, perceived discrepancies between parental expectations and academic outcome have been found to be related to psychological distress for Asian Americans. In studies with White …
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Parental Expectations for Asian American Men Who Entered College Early: Influences on their Academic, Career, and Interpersonal Decision-Making
Asian immigrant parents often hold high expectations for their children to excel academically and professionally. Filial piety and the desire to make their parent(s) proud can motivate these children to achieve but can also place undue pressure upon them. This mixed methods dissertation study …
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Returning to the Path. A hermeneutic phenomenological study of parental expectations and the meaning of transition to early parenting in couples with a pregnancy conceived using in-vitro fertilisation.
… and physical demands which may heighten expectations of parenthood. The concept of good parenting is socially constructed and it may be that having actively sought parenthood, parents who have conceived using IVF feel pressure to be ‘good’ at it. This study seeks to understand the lived …
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Intra-individual and Extra-individual predictors of text anxiety in Indian children: A cross-cultural perspective
… schedule, consequences of failure, perceived parental expectations and involvement and parental expectations and involvement) in predicting test anxiety. A culturally sensitive methodology consistent with Berry's imposed etic-emic-derived etic approach was adopted wherein a combination of …
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An examination of the role of school climate in adolescent test anxiety
… The contextual variables were unrealistic parental expectations and school climate. Unrealistic parental expectations was a predictor of test anxiety in a regression model including only those two contextual variables, but was no longer a significant predictor when all study variables were …
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Determinants of the Difference Between Mother's Educational Expectation for Her Daughter and the Mother's Own Education
… This study differed from other studies involving parental expectations for their children because it compared this expectation with the mother's own education.
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Sibling Suicide in Indo-American Families: Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Family Relationships
… of racism/discrimination, non-verbalized parental expectations, and family communication problems. Risk factors of family relationships were strongest in areas of parental expectations, family communication, and family conflict. Protective factors in areas of family support were …
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Risk, Emergent Skills, and First to Third Grade Achievement: An Opportunity-Propensity Analysis
… antecedent factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, parental expectations), opportunities to learn (e.g., center-based care), and children's propensities to learn (emergent reading and mathematics skills, approaches to learning) on first and third grade reading and mathematics assessment scores, and …
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Alcohol on College Campuses in North Dakota: Levels of Consumption, Gender, and Negative Consequences
… grade point average, and the influences of parental expectations and rules. Additionally, levels of consumption and awareness of campus alcohol policies, enforcement of campus alcohol policies, awareness of prevention programs, place of residence (on or off campus), and suffering from …
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Parent Expectations of Elementary Schools and The Leaders, Teachers, and Staff: An Examination of Elementary Schools in a Southeastern Georgia School District
… of their efforts should include determining parental expectations and how those expectations differ and are influenced by demographics such as race and ethnicity, SES, and level of educational attainment of the parents. Elementary schools must respond to parental expectations in a manner that …
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History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900--1950
… It also found similarities across cultures in parental expectations regarding the nature and purpose of education for female children.
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