What are the effects of the home environment on school achievement?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Students' home and family environments, because they reflect social class, influence the probability of students' success in the traditional school. Home environment also promotes three sets of characteristics important to school achievement: knowledge and understandings, cognitive and verbal skills, and values and attitudes.

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The modified open plan design

A. Uses wide open spaces to encourage creativity B. Has visual barriers to promote play persistence C. Uses open spaces and tables to encourage academic development D. None of the above

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The idealist emphasis on subjective self-realization in education has its most likely origins in

a. Descartes' declaration that "I think, therefore, I am." b. Smith's view of economic self-interest. c. Mead's belief in the social self. d. Hume's skepticism about subjective perception.

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Teachers can show students how to effectively write essays with little planning or development work

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What are some themes that describe family subsystems?

a. marriage, gender, disability, grandparents b. marriage, gender, disability, siblings c. gender, partners, grandparents, siblings d. gender, grandparents, marriage, siblings

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