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The role of parent educational attainment on parenting and achievement outcomes
12 October 2023, 3:00 pm鈥�4:00 pm
Join this event to hear Professor Pamela Davis-Kean discuss the link parent educational attainment as a predictor of children's developmental outcomes.
This event is free.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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CEPEO
Location
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Room A5.0220 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL
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Socioeconomic status (SES)鈥攊ndexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income鈥攊s a powerful predictor of children鈥檚 developmental outcomes. Variations in these resources predict large academic disparities among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persist over the years of schooling, perpetuating educational inequalities across generations.听
In this presentation, Pamela will provide an overview of a model that has guided her听research approach to studying these influences, focusing particularly on parent educational attainment. Parents鈥� educational attainment typically drives their occupations and income and is often used interchangeably with SES in research. Pamela and her colleagues posit that parent educational attainment provides a foundation that supports children鈥檚 academic success indirectly through parents鈥� beliefs about and expectations for their children, as well as through the cognitive stimulation that parents provide in and outside of the home environment.
This event will be particularly useful for parents, researchers, teachers and policy makers.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined in-person or online.
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About the Speaker
Professor Pamela Davis-Kean
Professor of Psychology and Quantitative Methods at The Institute for Social Research
Her research focuses on the various pathways that the socio-economic status (SES) of parents relates to the cognitive/achievement outcomes (particularly mathematics) of their children.