Child Development

Hurlock, Elizábeth B.

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“…It is widely reported that parent's socio-economic background affects student's school achievement (Adekeyi, 2002;David, 2007;Ezewu, 2003;Farrant, 2004;Hurlock, 2005;Ogunsola & Adewale, 2012;Stones, 2004) as rich parents could afford high-fee schools, textbooks, extra lessons, good feeding and upkeep money at school and domestic servants at home to relieve the students of house chores; while students from poor homes take up part-time jobs to supplement their income while in school. According to Ipaye (1996), many male students on www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol.…”

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“…However, since the University is an umbrella that houses students from different parental background; their parents' social and economic background can have positive or negative effect on their academic performance. Studies have found that parent's socio-economic background has positive relationship with students' academic performance (Adekeyi, 2002;Hurlock, 2005;Ogunsola & Adewale, 2012;Stones, 2004) as rich parents could provide financial, moral and social supports for their children. However, other studies (Udida et al, 2012) argued that children from rich families record poor academic performance in schools.…”

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“…On this premise, the research is aimed at investigating the moderating influence of self-motivation on the relationship between parent's socio-economic background and their children's academic performance, particularly in Nigerian Universities. Numerous studies (Aremu, 2000;David, 2007;Farrant, 2004;Hurlock, 2005) have been done at the primary and secondary school levels but scant literature (Azhar et al, 2013;Eweniyi, 2005) exists that examined these variables at the university levels. Again, the moderating effect of self-motivation on these variables has received little empirical attention in literature as Abesha (2012) measured the moderating influence of self-efficacy on the relationship between socio-economic background and academic achievement in Ethiopia.…”

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The Moderating Effect of Self-Motivation on the Relationship between Parent’s Socio-Economic Background and Children’s Academic Performance at Nigerian Universities

Ekpe¹,

Adelaiye²,

Adubasim³

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The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of self-motivation on the relationship between parent's socio-economic backgrounds on their children's academic performance at Nigerian Universities, which has received little attention. Issues concerning University undergraduate youths have become a cause for concern among stakeholders in the project called 'education in Nigeria'. Such issues like expulsion from school due to examination malpractice or cultism, withdrawal due to poor academic performance and production of half-baked graduates have forced many concerned people to question the role of teachers as well as parent's socio-economic background. The paper adopted a survey methodology to solicit responses from 150 final year University students (2012/2013) of Business Faculties in the north, east and west regions of Nigeria; using stratified proportionate random sampling. After data cleaning, 130 data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression. One of the results indicated that student's self-motivation (hard work) and rich parental socio-economic background are needed to achieve academic success; though self-motivation appears to be a more critical success factor. The paper recommended that the government and the authorities of Nigerian universities should intensify effort at counselling the students on the need to study hard in order to achieve academic success rather than relying on their parents' socio-economic background. This will improve teaching and learning in Nigerian Universities. The study is limited to University Business Faculties in Nigeria. Future studies can investigate other tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

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“…There have been a lot of studies concerning children language skill, for example the studies conducted by Hurlock (1978) and Widdowson (1983). Hurlock (1978:24) concluded that children language skill is affected by the factors of socialfamily, intelligence, health, encouragement and relationship with friends.…”

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“…In the contrary with Hurlock (1978) and Widdowson (1983), Taylor (2006:81) and Gunarsa (1995:84) focused more on examining how parents influence the development of their children language skill. Based on his study, Taylor (2006:81) concluded that the more often the parents respond to their children's invitation to communicate, introduce lots of concepts and things, the better the children's developments in language skill will be.…”

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Geographical Influences on the Language Skill of Elementary School Students in Lae-Lae Island Makassar City

Yusri

Hidayat

2016

Jur, Hum

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This article describes how geographic factor influences students' language skill which in this case is the mastery of vocabularies. This study is a quantitative research with sociolinguistic approach. The respondents of this study were elementary school students that live in Lae-Lae Island, Makassar City, and as for the comparison the researcher took other respondents from other elementary schools in urban areas. The researcher selected 30 students from each school. The techniques used in this study were a vocabulary mastery test, observations, and interviews. The data analysis technique is descriptive analysis and independent sample t test. The result indicates that there are significant geographical factors on the students' vocabulary mastery. Elementary students in urban area have higher skill in mastering vocabularies than those in Lae-Lae Island. In addition, the geographical factors also influence the type of their vocabularies mastered by the students. The students from Lae-Lae Island are better in mastering marine vocabularies than those of urban areas.

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Intertubercular sulcus of the humerus as an indicator of handedness and humeral length

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Measurements of the maximum width and depth of the intertubercular sulcus (ITS), angles of the medial and lateral walls with the floor of the ITS, as well as the length of the humerus in 100 right and 100 left matched, unpaired dry humeri of 100 adults were statistically analyzed. Since 90-95% of the general population is right handed, on the basis of altered size of the dimensions of the right ITS relative to the left, it is proposed that greater width and smaller angles of the medial and lateral walls of the ITS of one side are indicative of handedness on that side. Handedness can further be deduced by the presence of a < 50 degrees angle of the medial wall and of a supratubercular ridge of Meyer on that side. The length of the humerus correlated with the width and depth of the ITS (P < 0.001). Regression equations of the length of the humerus on width, depth, as well as width and depth of the ITS have been derived.

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Child Development

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The Moderating Effect of Self-Motivation on the Relationship between Parent’s Socio-Economic Background and Children’s Academic Performance at Nigerian Universities

The Moderating Effect of Self-Motivation on the Relationship between Parent’s Socio-Economic Background and Children’s Academic Performance at Nigerian Universities

Geographical Influences on the Language Skill of Elementary School Students in Lae-Lae Island Makassar City

Intertubercular sulcus of the humerus as an indicator of handedness and humeral length

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