Early Ethnic Inequality: The Influence of Social Background and Parental Involvement on Preschool Children’s Cognitive Ability in Germany

Biedinger, Nicole

doi:10.1007/s12187-009-9054-6

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“…Therefore, any comparison of two groups pertaining to academic or linguistic performance of primary school children must take into consideration these cognitive variables. Even for the preschool context it is known that children with a migration background (mainly of Turkish origin) scored lower in developmental psychological tests than children without a migration background (see Biedinger 2010). Similarly, success in school strongly depends on children's cognitive abilities (e.g.…”

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Academic achievement of children with and without migration backgrounds in an immersion primary school: A pilot study

Steinlen¹,

Piske²

2013

Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik

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This paper had two aims: a) to provide a review of studies investigating how children with migration backgrounds perform in tests examining their skills in the majority language of a country as well as their skills in a 3rd language learnt either in regular language-as-subjects lessons or in bilingual programmes such as those following the immersion approach, and b) to present the results of a pilot study investigating how primary school children with and without migration backgrounds enrolled in a partial immersion programme in Germany performed in tests examining their skills in the ambient language German and in the immersion language English. The review of previous research suggested that compared to children without a migration background, children with a migration background living in Germany often achieve relatively poor results in studies examining their skills in the ambient language German. In studies examining migrant children's skills in a new language such as English learnt in foreign language classrooms or in a bilingual secondary school setting, students with migrant backgrounds have, on the other hand, sometimes been found to perform equally well as or even better than students without a migration background. However, there is a paucity of studies examining migrant children's academic achievement in primary schools with bilingual programmes. The pilot study presented here examined children in primary grades 1 to 4 who were enrolled in a partial immersion programme in Germany and who participated in tests examining their cognitive abilities, their literacy skills in the ambient language German and the immersion language English as well as their comprehension of English vocabulary and grammar. The results obtained in the different tests suggest that primary school immersion programmes may not only be suitable for children without, but also for children with migration backgrounds, including children with migration backgrounds whose parents are less inclined to education.

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Academic achievement of children with and without migration backgrounds in an immersion primary school: A pilot study

Steinlen¹,

Piske²

2013

Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik

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“…[3,4]). The following section will give an overview of the state-of-the-art and give some theoretical arguments for the explanatory power of the educational background and the home environment for early cognitive abilities.…”

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The Influence of Education and Home Environment on the Cognitive Outcomes of Preschool Children in Germany

Biedinger

2011

Child Development Research

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Educational inequality is a well-established topic among the scientific community in Western countries. Major individual differences emerge well before children arrive at school. Therefore the following analysis deals with the explanation of early differences in cognitive outcomes. However, there is not much research done in Germany. The main question is if the strong effect of the educational background and the home environment on their outcomes and on the improvement exists as well. To test this, data of the project "Preschool Education and Educational Careers among Migrant Children" was used. The results of structural equation models confirm that the home environment and the education of the parents are important for children's outcomes at the age of 3 to 4. In addition both factors also play a major role for the explanation of the improvement of the cognitive abilities. The results show that in Germany the home environment and parental education are important predictors of cognitive abilities. As a main result the study shows that it is very important to control for earlier abilities of the children and to encourage low educated parents to be active with their children, since in that way they can compensate for their lower educational background.

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“…Smith, Ray, Stefurak, & Zachar, 2007) as it is parental child-rearing strategies that influence self-regulation, socio-emotional adjustment, and psychopathology in early adulthood (Baker & Hoerger, 2012). The social background and parental involvement is also said to have early ethnic inequality on cognitive development among students of a minority race (Biedinger, 2010). The socio-economic status with gender trolls on the academic self-concept of students (Low & Ishak, 2012) with family socio-economic status predicting self-efficacy of students (Mazur, Malkowska-Szkutnik, & Tabak, 2014) that could influence the emotional stability of students (Kumar, 2013).…”

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The Nature of Mother’s Employment on Nurturing Campus Persistence among Undergraduate Students

Vijayalakshmi¹,

Sequeira²

2017

ASS

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Objective: The study aims to empirically test the relationship between types of campus adaptations across students' mothers' level of nature of occupation among engineering undergraduate B. Tech students pursuing a four-year study at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT's) and National Institutes of Technology (NIT's) in India. Method:The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (Manova) test was run with SPSS vs. 21 to compare the student's campus adaptations of IIT's and NIT's by students' mothers' level of occupation. Multistage random sampling with n = 1420 students were selected comprising of employed at government (n = 172), employed at private (n =141), own a business (n = 71) employed as unskilled labourer (n = 10), farmer (n = 10), retired from government service or pensioner (n = 06), not alive (n = 03), unemployed (n = 107). Result:In the academic adaptation, students' mothers' who were employed by the government, owned a business, employed as unskilled labourer and pursued farming had positive outcome while students' whose mothers' were employed at private, retired from government service, not alive and unemployed had negative outcomes. In social adaptation students' whose mothers' were employed by the government, owned a business, retired from government service and unemployed had positive outcomes while students' whose mothers' were employed at private, employed as an unskilled labourer, pursued farming and not alive had negative outcomes. In physicalpsychological adaptation, students' mothers' who owned a business, not alive and unemployed had positive outcomes while student's mothers' employed at the government, employed at private, employed as an unskilled labourer, pursued farming and retired from government service had negative outcomes. In the institutional adaptation, students' mothers' employed at the government, employed at private own a business, employed as an unskilled labourer, retired from government service and not alive had positive outcomes and students whose mothers' were farmers and unemployed had negative outcomes.

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Early Ethnic Inequality: The Influence of Social Background and Parental Involvement on Preschool Children’s Cognitive Ability in Germany

Cited by 19 publications

References 52 publications

Academic achievement of children with and without migration backgrounds in an immersion primary school: A pilot study

Academic achievement of children with and without migration backgrounds in an immersion primary school: A pilot study

The Influence of Education and Home Environment on the Cognitive Outcomes of Preschool Children in Germany

The Nature of Mother’s Employment on Nurturing Campus Persistence among Undergraduate Students

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