The role of parent educational attainment on parenting and achievement outcomes

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Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children’s 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. 

In this presentation, Pamela will provide an overview of a model that has guided her research approach to studying these influences, focusing particularly on parent educational attainment. Parents’ 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’s academic success indirectly through parents’ 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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• Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO)
• Department of Learning and Leadership