Learning Skill Development
Parental Influence on the Developing Learning Skills of ChildrenThrough the years many psychologists have been interested in the effects that parents have on their children's learning abilities. Several studies have been done and many have found that parents do indeed positively affect their children's cognitive abilities. Many of these studies have only found correlations, however, and not causation. This paper summarizes three of these studies and analyzes them to determine some possibilities for the psychology of parental influence.(a) Home Literacy Activities and Their Influence on Early Literacy SkillsThis study conducted by Evans, Shaw and Bell is the first of three that explores how home learning activities influence a child's ability to learn in a more formal setting. This particular experiment was performed because the researchers were not satisfied with the lack of conciseness in previous studies. This study partials out socio-economic status and uses more standardized measures than previous studies when attempting to determine home activity influence children's reading skill acquisition.
suggest that affective characteristics of the parent-child relationship have a direct association with the child's school readiness. The anticipated parallel was that the more the parents were involved in their child's literacy the higher the score on the PPCLS. On this there are 36 children's book titles and 20 foils. This would reflect differences in educational policy on preschool literacy education and kindergarten curriculum. This will also generalize to future learning situations because the child will come to expect some form of attention for learning a new concept. This test measures such areas as how frequently the child helps with chores, number of educationally relevant play-things in the house, number of school readiness skills the parent has helped the child learn, etc. This 64 item test evaluates personal-social responsiveness, numerical and sensory concept development, associative vocabulary, and motor development. There were, however, some unexpected results. This study found that older children did, indeed, outperform younger children in all societies with Hong Kong children having the highest scores of the three societies. iii) Methods and OutcomesA sample of 480 children ranging 2-6 years of age was taken from Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore along with 1 of their parents. These questions were both open and closed ended. School readiness was assessed by the Cooperative Pre-School Inventory (CPI). 1) To what extent do aspects of the parent-child relationship predict school readiness? 2) To what extent do aspects of the home learning environment predict school readiness? ii) Methods and OutcomesThis study used 173 mothers and their Head Start Children. This could be attributed to the concept of frustration. This means mother could be aunt, uncle, grandparent, foster parent, etc.
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