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The Quality of Maternal Homework Involvement : The Role of Adolescent and Maternal Factors

2021

This study examined adolescent and maternal factors of the quality of maternal homework involvement and the extent to which the factors predicted adolescents' subsequent achievement through adolescents' and mothers' perceptions of the quality of maternal homework involvement. The sample consisted of 847 Finnish adolescents and their 662 mothers who both rated the quality of homework involvement (i.e., autonomy support and psychological control) in the fall of Grade 6. Adolescents rated their positive and negative academic emotions. Mothers rated their beliefs about adolescents' school success, their positive and negative emotions, and adolescents' task avoidance in homework situations. Info…

Fostering the relationship between home and school : a case study of a senior secondary school in the Gambia

2011

The study examines the extent to which the relationship between home and school affects students’ academic achievements. A senior secondary school in The Gambia was chosen for this study. The focus of the research was to identify and describe intentionally designed programs and practices that foster the involvement of home in school activities and its important outcomes for the stakeholders (home and school). A qualitative method using semi-structured interviews was used to collect the data from the school principal, four English language teachers and ten parents in order to explore the nature and the degree of support they provide for students. The data was analyzed by the researcher using…

Children's and adolescents' achievement strategies, school adjustment and family environment

2001

The interplay between maternal homework involvement, task-avoidance, and achievement among adolescents.

2021

This study examined three aspects of maternal homework involvement (i.e., the quantity, quality, and source of initiative) and their direct and indirect associations with adolescents’ task-avoidant behavior in homework situations and academic achievement. The sample consisted of Finnish mothers and their adolescents who were transitioning from primary to lower secondary school. Mothers rated the quantity of their homework involvement (i.e., monitoring and help), quality of their homework involvement (i.e., autonomy support and psychological control), and source of initiative (i.e., mother- vs. adolescent-initiated monitoring and help) at the beginning of Grade 6. They also reported on adole…

Maternal homework assistance and children's task-persistent behavior in elementary school

2018

The present study used a sample of 365 children to investigate the longitudinal associations between maternal homework assistance (i.e., help, monitoring, and autonomy granting) and children's task-persistent behavior in learning situations from grade 2 to grade 4 of elementary school. Also, the extent to which task-persistent behavior plays a role in the links between parental homework assistance and children's academic performance was examined. The results showed that the more autonomy granting mothers reported, the more task-persistent behavior children exhibited; and more task-persistent behavior children exhibited, the more autonomy their mothers granted. In contrast, the more mothers …

Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency

2023

This study investigated how single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency developed among Finnish children across Grades 1–9 (N = 2151). Latent profile analysis among 391 children who had reading and/or arithmetic fluency difficulties in Grade 9 revealed profiles that followed three distinct patterns: reading difficulties (N = 121), mathematical difficulties (N = 94), and comorbid difficulties (N = 176). The profiles and typical performers were compared on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, parental education, the early home learning environment, and parental assistance with school homework across Grades 1–9. Results showed that although parents whose c…

Vertaistyöskentelyn kehittäminen päiväkodin pedagogisen johtajuuden vahvistamiseksi

2012

"Että meidän itsenäisyys säilyisi" : tapaustutkimus muutoksesta filiaalipäiväkodiksi ja sen vaikutuksista johtajuuteen

2001

Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare? : Evidence from Ghana

2021

Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservables to examine the structural effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the IV LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household and women's welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decrea…

Fyysisen aktiivisuuden yhteys iäkkäiden henkilöiden kotihoidon käyttöön

2010

Väestön ikääntymisellä ja siihen liittyvillä sairauksilla sekä toimintakyvyn heikkenemisellä on yhteys päivittäisten toimintojen vaikeutumiseen ja sitä kautta palvelutarpeen lisääntymiseen. Fyysisellä aktiivisuudella on kuitenkin mahdollista parantaa terveyttä ja toimintakykyä. Fyysisellä aktiivisuudella on mahdollista vähentää myös sairaala- ja laitoshoidon tarvetta sekä lääkäripalvelujen käyttömäärää. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää fyysisen aktiivisuuden yhteyttä iäkkäiden henkilöiden kotihoidon käyttöön. Aineistona käytettiin Ikivihreät-projektin haastatteluaineistoa 75-vuotiaille jyväskyläläisille vuonna 1989 (n=355). Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin kysymyksiä, jotka käsitteli…