Contexts of achievement: a study of American, Chinese, and Japanese children / Harold W. Stevenson, Shin-Ying Lee, in collaboration with Chuansheng Chen [et al.].
Publisher:
Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development
"With commentary by Giyoo Hatano, and a reply by the authors." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
To achieve / Achievement in reading and mathematics -- Background information : schools and teachers -- Background information : families and children -- Children's lives at home -- Children's attitudes -- Beliefs about effort and ability -- Mothers' evaluations of their child's cognitive abilities, school performance, motivation, and personality -- Mothers' satisfaction with their child's school performance and evaluations of curriculum and school -- Problems in schooling according to mothers and teachers -- Toward the cultural psychology of mathematical cognition / by Harold W. Stevenson and Shin-ying Lee. To achieve / by Harold W. Stevenson and Shin-ying Lee.
Series:
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; serial no. 221, v. 55, nos. 1-2
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