Socio-economic gaps in subject interest: the mediating role of parental cognitive involvement

Abstract This paper examines the mediating role of parental literacy and numeracy involvement before the child entered school in the relationship between family socio-economic status (SES) and students’ interest in reading and mathematics. Causal mediation analysis is applied to international assess...

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Main Author: Daniel H. Caro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
Series:Large-scale Assessments in Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40536-018-0067-9