Based on the Laosa model, this longitudinal study examined relationships between family learning environments and the aspirations of 512 Australian adolescents from three occupational status groups. Adolescents' aspirations had moderate associations with parents' aspirations but only modest or negligible relations to parents' instrumental and…

A model of family learning environment was constructed to study the relationship between family environments and school achievement. Data were collected from Australian families with 11-year-old children attending urban elementary schools. A semi-structured family interview inventory was used to assess dimensions of the environment model. (DWH)

Path analytic techniques examined relations between children's subjective school outcomes and measures of their family and school learning environments. A home interview assessed parents' orientations to education and children's perceptions of schools were obtained. Children's perceptions have links with school-related outcomes even when family…

A study of Australian students from six ethnic groups supports the idea that if children from different cultural groups have distinct patterns of cognitive scores, they also have distinct patterns of family learning environments. (Editor)

The study examined relationships among family social status, perceptions of family and school learning environments, and measures of children's academic achievement, educational aspirations and self-concept. Data were collected from 261 (128 boys, 133 girls) 11-year-old Taiwanese children. The findings from structural equation modelling suggest…

This study is an examination of relationships among family background, family and school learning environments, goal orientations, and students' interest in music. Data were collected from 18-year-old black South African students, 340 women and 285 men, whose main language was IsiXhosa. Findings indicated that when family background was defined…