Family, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Youths' Educational Achievements

Autor/in	Aldous, Joan
Titel	Family, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Youths' Educational Achievements
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 27 (2006) 12, S.1633-1667 (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X06292419
Schlagwörter	Family (Sociological Unit); Ethnicity; Immigrants; Academic Achievement; Reading Comprehension; Parent Child Relationship; Ethnic Groups; Adolescents; Social Differences; Grade 8; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familie; Ethnizität; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Schulleistung; Leseverstehen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ethnie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sozialer Unterschied; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Data from the 1988 National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) are used to examine immigrant youths' reading comprehension and mathematics' standardized scores as well as their parents' demographic characteristics and parent-child relations that could influence children's educational achievements. The comparisons were among parents who had emigrated from Asian, Central and South American, or the less often included European countries and their first- and second-generation offspring. It appeared that Asian students did somewhat better than the other groups. However, regardless of ethnicity and also as hypothesized, parents' aspirations for their children to obtain more education as well as the children's own aspirations generally were positively related to their children's doing well in school. Contrary to previous research, though, ethnic background did not consistently differentiate parental help with homework or parent-child conversations about school on the adolescents' standardized scores. (Contains 5 tables and 3 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10