Measured Environmental Influences on Early Reading: Evidence From an Adoption Study

Autor/inn/en	Petrill, Stephen A.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Schatschneider, Christopher; Davis, Chayna
Titel	Measured Environmental Influences on Early Reading: Evidence From an Adoption Study
Quelle	In: Scientific Studies of Reading, 9 (2005) 3, S.237-259 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8438
Schlagwörter	Early Reading; Environmental Influences; Family Environment; Educational Attitudes; Adoption; Children; Genetics; Reading Interests; Recreational Reading; Parent Child Relationship; Homework + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühlesen; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Familienmilieu; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Humangenetik; Leseinteresse; Häusliche Lektüre; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hausaufgabe
Abstract	Many studies have examined the relationship between environmental processes and literacy outcomes. However, nearly all of this research has examined biologically related family members living together, thus confounding genetic and environmental influences. The purpose of this study was to address this issue using a sample of 262 adopted children and their families. Children were assessed in their homes on a 90-min battery of reading-related outcome measures. Parents reported on their educational attitudes, book reading practices, levels of involvement in homework, and their children's interest in reading-related activities. Multilevel modeling results suggest that aspects of the family environment were associated with child reading-related outcomes, a finding that cannot be attributed to shared genes between parents and their children. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10