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Title: Maternal Education and Children's Academic Achievement During Middle Childhood
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Magnuson, Katherine A. |
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Maternal Education and Children's Academic Achievement During Middle Childhood Developmental Psychology 43,6 (November 2007): 1497-1512. Also: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/43/6/1497/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Family Environment; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Tests and Testing Despite much evidence that links mothers' educational attainment to children's academic outcomes, studies have not established whether increases in mothers' education will improve their children's academic achievement. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on children between the ages of 6 and 12, this study examined whether increases in mothers' educational attainment are associated with changes in children's academic achievement and the quality of their home environments. Results suggest that children of young mothers with low levels of education perform better on tests of academic skills and have higher quality home environments when their mothers complete additional schooling, whereas increased maternal education does not predict improvements in the achievement or home environments of children with older and more highly educated mothers. The estimated effects of additional maternal schooling for children of these younger mothers appear to be more pronounced for children's reading than math skills. ((c) 2007 APA.) |
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Magnuson, Katherine A. "Maternal Education and Children's Academic Achievement During Middle Childhood." Developmental Psychology 43,6 (November 2007): 1497-1512.
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