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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis:
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Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr....Abstract:
Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr...read more
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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More Tools for the Synthesist’s Toolbag in Harris Cooper’s Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (4th ed.)
TL;DR: Cooper's revised and expanded fourth edition of Research Synthesis and MetaAnalysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (2010) provides these needed guidelines with special attention given to the threats to validity at all steps of the research synthesis process.
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood as mentioned in this paper examines the long-term outcomes of the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP), a representative sample of Baltimore public school first-graders selected in the fall of 1982 and followed through 2006.
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Family socio-economic status and children's academic achievement: The different roles of parental academic involvement and subjective social mobility.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is a pathway from family SES to children's academic achievement through parental academic involvement and that this pathway is dependent on the level of parental subjective social mobility.
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Raising School Effects While Ignoring Culture? Local Conditions and the Influence of Classroom Tools, Rules, and Pedagogy
Bruce Fuller,Prema Clarke +1 more
TL;DR: In contrast, the classroom culturalists focus on the implicitly modeled norms exercised in the classroom and how children are socialized to accept particular rules of participation and authority, linguistic norms, orientations toward achievement, and conceptions of merit and status as discussed by the authors.
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Effects of parental involvement on academic achievement: a meta-synthesis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesized the results of nine meta-analyses that examined the impact of parental involvement on student academic achievement and identified generalizable findings across these studies.
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Education and Stratification in Developing Countries: A Review of Theories and Research
Claudia Buchmann,Emily Hannum +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review examines research on education and inequality in developing regions, focusing on empirical studies of educational inequality in four broad areas: macro-structural forces shaping education and stratification; the relationship between family background and educational outcomes; school effects; and education's impact on economic and social mobility.
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Measures of socioeconomic status: Alternatives and recommendations.
TL;DR: MUELLER and PARCEL as mentioned in this paper argue that it is ill-advised to use impressionistic or outdated measures of SES in psychological research and propose two occupation-based measures, the Duncan Socioeconomic Index and the Siegel Prestige Scale, as the best measures of the SES of individuals or household heads.
Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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