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Rimkute, Laura; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Lyytinen, Heikki – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study examined the role that adolescents' dyslexia plays in their educational expectations, as well as their parents' expectations concerning their offspring's future education. To investigate this, 170 adolescents were asked to report their educational expectations on two occasions while they were still attending…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Adolescents, Expectation, Parent Attitudes
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Lawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
In this study, I used individual growth modeling methods to examine the English word-learning trajectories of adolescent students (N = 278) whose parents speak English at home (n = 210) and those whose parents speak a language other than English (n = 68). Sixth- (n = 130) and seventh-grade (n = 148) students attending an urban middle school took…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Socioeconomic Status, Independent Reading, Vocabulary
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