Psychological and demographic correlates of early academic skill development among American Indian and Alaska Native youth: A growth modeling study.

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 663-674

  Marks, Amy Kerivan ^a,b   Coll, Cynthia García ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic skill; Alaska Native; American Indian; Attitudes toward learning; Growth modeling

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESKIMO; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; NEGRO; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INUITS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; POVERTY; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248395544     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.3.663     Document Type: Article

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