Effects of parent aspirations on student outcomes are predominantly small and mixed in direction¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Parent aspirations show predominantly small and mixed-direction effects on expectations, self-concept, GPA, and age-26 outcomes, smaller than expectation effects. → Herbert W. Marsh 2023

Evidence¶

Herbert W. Marsh 2023¶

Herbert W. Marsh, Reinhard Pekrun, Jiesi Guo, John Hattie, Eyal Karin. (2023). Too Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: the Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09768-8

q3 · i? · associational · r3

Longitudinal SEM of the ELS:2002 sample; the study reports parent aspiration effects were "predominantly small and mixed in direction". No per-outcome coefficients or effect sizes are printed in the available text.

"Effects of parent aspirations on these outcomes were predominantly small and mixed in direction."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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