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Presentation: Low Parental Education, a Family Risk Factor: How to Close the Achievement Gap between Children with Differing Parental Education

May 27, 2006

2006 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, ON

Event Description

Presented by:
Zohreh Yaghoub Zadeh, Associate Research Scientist, CCL 
Charles Ungerleider, Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization, CCL

This presentation addresses the mediating role of home enrichment in early childhood in the association of parental education and children’s academic achievement.

Regression analyses indicate that the influence of parental education on children’s academic achievement decreases significantly when the mediation role of home enrichment is accounted for. More specifically, children’s academic achievement in grade one relies to a larger extent on home enrichment factors in early childhood than on parental education.

These findings will be discussed both in terms of theoretical and practical implications.

We used the data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, N=916).