Parent involvement as parental monitoring of student motivation and parent expectations predicting later achievement among African American and European American middle school age students

Social Work with Multicultural Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 109-132

  Seyfried, Sherri F ^a   Chung, Ick Joong ^b  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duksung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; African American students; Middle school age students; Parent involvement; Parent perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646529923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203050019     Document Type: Chapter

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