ERIC Number: EJ1055736
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Feb
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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Classmate Characteristics and Student Achievement in 33 Countries: Classmates' Past Achievement, Family Socioeconomic Status, Educational Resources, and Attitudes toward Reading
Chiu, Ming Ming; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin
Journal of Educational Psychology, v107 n1 p152-169 Feb 2015
Classmates can influence a student's academic achievement through immediate interactions (e.g., academic help, positive attitudes toward reading) or by sharing tangible or intangible family resources (books, stories of foreign travel). Multilevel analysis of 141,019 fourth-grade students' reading achievements in 33 countries showed that classmates' family factors (parent socioeconomic status [SES], home educational resources) were more strongly related to a student's reading achievement than were classmates' characteristics (parent ratings of past literacy skills, attitudes toward reading). However, these classmate links to reading achievement differed across students (e.g., high-SES classmates benefited high-SES students more than low-SES students). Also, links between classmates' past reading achievement and a student's current reading achievement were stronger in countries that were richer, were more collectivist, or avoided uncertainty less. These findings show how an ecological model of family and classmate microsystems, classmate family mesosystem, and country macrosystem can help provide a comprehensive account of children's academic achievement.
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Student Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Family Characteristics, Educational Resources, Reading Attitudes, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Interaction, Reading Achievement, Correlation, Reading Skills, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Geographic Location, Cross Cultural Studies, Economic Factors, Cultural Differences, Social Values, Gender Differences, Collectivism, Power Structure, Likert Scales
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Asia; Canada; New Zealand; United States
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
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