Download or read book An Analysis of Single and Dual parent Students in Regard to School Performance written by Bernard John Bromenschenkel and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Single Parenting on Students Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Arusha City Tanzania written by Joyce G. Malima and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: B (3), , course: Masters of Art in Educational Management, language: English, abstract: The study aimed to assess the effects of single parenting on students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Arusha city council. The purpose was fulfilled through four specific objectives: to identify the causes of single parenting, to identify the challenges faced by single parents on students' academic performance, to propose the solutions to overcome the challenges faced by single parents on students academic performance, to determine the effects of single parenting on students academic performance in secondary schools in Arusha city and to determine the relationship between single parenting factors and students’ academic performance. The study followed survey design whereby quantitative technique was applied. The data were collected through questionnaires using a random sample of 612 respondents. It was found that, single parenting is caused by divorce, death, separation and not married. Also, the study revealed that, challenges faced by single parents on supporting students’ academic performance in secondary schools were inability to buy school requirements, lack of enough time to check students’ exercise books, inability to supply money for lunch to their children, poor communication and lack of time to give homework to children. Also, study laid down that, single parenting challenges can be solved through providing the basic necessities to students as well as encouraging their children to study hard. It was also realized that, single parenting leads to economic hardships among students, lack of support from parents, lack of school resources, life stress and instability and anxiety and depression. The study concluded that, single parenting is caused by divorce, death, separation and not married. Also, the study confirms that, single parenting hinders students’ academic performance in secondary schools. The study recommended that, single parents should buy all school requirements for their children and spend time for academic issues related to their children. The study also recommends that, head teachers should pay more attention to single parenting students and provide counseling to them to encourage them. Also, the government should identify the needs of single parenting students and act accordingly.
Download or read book Educational Risk Factors for Students in Single and Dual Parent Households written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demonization of single parents by media and government sources has been a persistent problem in our society. In order to examine the validity of the claims made against single parents, this study examines the relationship between household structure and composite reading and math test scores. Secondary data analysis was used from the Educational Longitudinal Survey of 2002 (ELS: 2002) of 10,945 10th grade students with a composite model consisting of: student role performance (SRP), schools, and families. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis are used to examine the independent effects on test scores. Mean composite test scores show a statistically significant difference in the test scores of students from single parent families (48.17) and dual parent families (51.88). The examination of the unique variance in test scores for each model segment shows student role performance factors explain more of the "unshared" variance in test scores than the other model segment. These results suggest that the blame of student outcomes on parent structure is explained by factors such as socioeconomic status within student role performance than the actual parental structure.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Relationship of One and Two parent Family Students with Junior High School Academic Achievement Attendance Discipline and Extracurricular Participation written by Dorothy Ann Lea LeGault and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparison of School Performance of Students from Single parent and Two parent Families written by Joyce Glenn Ames and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up with a Single Parent written by Sara McLanahan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children simply will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent sharply demonstrates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success. What are the chances that the child of a single parent will graduate from high school, go on to college, find and keep a job? Will she become a teenage mother? Will he be out of school and out of work? These are the questions the authors pursue across the spectrum of race, gender, and class. Children whose parents live apart, the authors find, are twice as likely to drop out of high school as those in two-parent families, one and a half times as likely to be idle in young adulthood, twice as likely to become single parents themselves. This study shows how divorce--particularly an attendant drop in income, parental involvement, and access to community resources--diminishes children's chances for well-being. The authors provide answers to other practical questions that many single parents may ask: Does the gender of the child or the custodial parent affect these outcomes? Does having a stepparent, a grandmother, or a nonmarital partner in the household help or hurt? Do children who stay in the same community after divorce fare better? Their data reveal that some of the advantages often associated with being white are really a function of family structure, and that some of the advantages associated with having educated parents evaporate when those parents separate. In a concluding chapter, McLanahan and Sandefur offer clear recommendations for rethinking our current policies. Single parents are here to stay, and their worsening situation is tearing at the fabric of our society. It is imperative, the authors show, that we shift more of the costs of raising children from mothers to fathers and from parents to society at large. Likewise, we must develop universal assistance programs that benefit low-income two-parent families as well as single mothers. Startling in its findings and trenchant in its analysis, Growing Up with a Single Parent will serve to inform both the personal decisions and governmental policies that affect our children's--and our nation's--future.
Download or read book How the Family Influences Children s Academic Achievement written by Shui Fong Lam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the interactive effects of family status and family process on children's academic achievement, drawing on research with a group of students in two inner-city schools to illustrate how parenting style mediates the influences of family structure and socio-economic status on academic performance. Concludes that an integrated model is superior to the traditional view of family status and process as independent factors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Academic Achievement Between Children of Single parent Families Versus Children of Dual parent Families written by Janet Mae O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Single parent Family Adolescents and Academic Performance written by David Ziegler Messner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unequal Family Lives written by Naomi R. Cahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Download or read book The Effect of Single Parenting on Students Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Arusha City Tanzania written by Joyce G. Malima and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: B (3), course: Masters of Art in Educational Management, language: English, abstract: The study aimed to assess the effects of single parenting on students' academic performance in secondary schools in Arusha city council. The purpose was fulfilled through four specific objectives: to identify the causes of single parenting, to identify the challenges faced by single parents on students' academic performance, to propose the solutions to overcome the challenges faced by single parents on students academic performance, to determine the effects of single parenting on students academic performance in secondary schools in Arusha city and to determine the relationship between single parenting factors and students' academic performance. The study followed survey design whereby quantitative technique was applied. The data were collected through questionnaires using a random sample of 612 respondents. It was found that, single parenting is caused by divorce, death, separation and not married. Also, the study revealed that, challenges faced by single parents on supporting students' academic performance in secondary schools were inability to buy school requirements, lack of enough time to check students' exercise books, inability to supply money for lunch to their children, poor communication and lack of time to give homework to children. Also, study laid down that, single parenting challenges can be solved through providing the basic necessities to students as well as encouraging their children to study hard. It was also realized that, single parenting leads to economic hardships among students, lack of support from parents, lack of school resources, life stress and instability and anxiety and depression. The study concluded that, single parenting is caused by divorce, death, separation and not married. Also, the study confirms that, single parenting hinders students' academic performance in s
Download or read book Quality and Inequality of Education written by Jaap Dronkers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particularly in Europe. The authors examine not only the well known cross-national PISA datasets, but also the European Social Survey and TIMSS, going further than many researchers by folding into their analyses economic, legal and historical factors. Most research up to now using the PISA data is restricted to educational research. Interesting as that educational question is, the chapters here use the PISA, and other data, to explore more profoundly the relationship between education and the various forms of inequality in European and other modern societies. The work comes from two different perspectives: one that looks at how the different characteristics of societies, their economies, and their educational systems influence the average educational achievements of specific groups of pupils, such as immigrants, in those societies; and a second, which explores how, and in what degree, the characteristics of schools, educational systems and labour-markets either hardens or softens differences in the educational outcomes of various groups of pupils. With a special feature of the book being its emphasis on comparing Asian and European countries, and with the content free of the political constraints that can often attend studies of these datasets, this book will be an vital resource for educationalists and policy-makers alike.
Download or read book The Rise of Single Parent Homes written by Judy L. Byerlee Walk and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Author's abstract] According to past literature, children who live in single parent homes tend to score lower on standardized tests. The goal of this research project is to determine whether or not family structure truly affects test scores. The data used for this study is from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988, which was sponsored by the US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Using a clustered stratified probability sample, the NCES distributed questionnaires to over one thousand schools. The full sample for this study consists of 21,410 students. It was found that while students living in single parent homes do score lower (.31 coefficients) than students in two parent homes, there are many other significant factors involved. In fact, belonging to a minority group has a much larger negative impact on students from both categories, 1.93 for students in two parent households and 2.89 for students in single parent households. Similarly a significant difference was found for socioeconomic status. According to this research, students in two parent households will find that higher socioeconomic status will increase their test scores by .22, while students in single parent families will find an increase of .15. Due to the fact that belonging to a single parent home has a relatively small consequence, once other factors have been controlled for (.31), this researcher believes that it is other factors that cause this decline in test scores.
Download or read book The Triple Bind of Single Parent Families written by Nieuwenhuis, Rense and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single parents face countless hardships, but they can be boiled down to a triple bind: inadequate resources, insufficient employment, and limited support policies. This book brings together research from a range of disciplines from more than forty countries--with particularly detailed case studies from the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, and Scotland. It addresses numerous issues related to the struggles of single parents, including poverty, employment, health, children's development and education, and more.
Download or read book Differences in Academic Achievement of Children Raised by Single Parents written by Tamara Janice Spivey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this project is to look at the differences between single parenting and two-parent parenting. This researcher wants to prove that having both parents is an important part of a child's well being. However, the researcher also realizes that single parents can also do a wonderful job in raising their children without the help of the other partner. There were 20 different 5th grade teachers who surveyed from public and private schools in Southern California. One the average, the teachers that were surveyed had over 15 years of teaching experience. The number of students in the classroom ranged from 19-35 students. The 5th grade teachers were asked questions pertaining to their experience and knowledge of what they have observed in their students academics who come from single parent families. The data was collected will indicate whether students who are raised by a single parent differ in their academic achievement than those who are raised in a nuclear family. The study that was conducted helped determine those differences. The survey centered around three questions: 1) What are the academic advantages of being raised by a nuclear family rather than a single parent? 2) Does the gender of a single parent make a difference in their child's academic achievement? 3) Does the amount of quality time single parents spend with their children affect their academic performance? Out of the 20 5th grade teachers that were surveyed, 100% agreed that there are academic advantages of being raised in a nuclear family rather than a single parent. Out of the 20 surveys, 13 agreed that the cultural background of a student makes a difference in their academics and 7 disagreed. Out of the 20 surveys, 19 agreed that the amount of quality time a single parent spends with their children affects their child's academics. The results from these surveys indicate that two is better than one.
Download or read book Persons in Context written by Niall Bolger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays by a group of distinguished researchers that assess our progress in understanding the processes linking persons and contexts in the course of development. The contributors represent various disciplines, including developmental, personality, and clinical psychology; behavioral genetics; and sociology. They also are identified with a wide range of methodological approaches, including longitudinal studies, laboratory experiments, field observations, and the sequential analysis of social interactions.
Download or read book An Analysis of One parent and Two parent Elementary Students in Regard to Academic Achievement Attendance and Discipline written by John D. Googins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
