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Abstract
The present study focuses on published materials of the last 15 years, concerning academic achievement of American and Chinese only children. Academic profiles of the only children of the two countries are compared and major causal factors of their academic outcomes are discussed. The topics examine a) family configuration, b) parent-child relationship, c) parent SES, and d) school quality. Results of this investigation indicate that only children in China and the United States enjoy advantages in academic development compared with non-only children, but that various factors impact on academic outcomes in diverse ways. As predicted, some factors such as family size and parents' education, clearly contribute to children's cognitive development. But this relationship is complex; in fact the data indicate that economic factors may substantially explain what initially appears to be a birth order effect.
Year of Submission
1994
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Education
Department
Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations
Department
General Educational Psychology
First Advisor
Ralph Scott
Second Advisor
Charles V. L. Dedrick
Date Original
1994
Object Description
1 PDF file (56 leaves)
Copyright
©1994 Jiyu Yang
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Yang, Jiyu, "A comparison and analysis of the academic profiles of only children in the Peoples' Republic of China and the United States" (1994). Graduate Research Papers. 3594.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/grp/3594
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