Lin Li, Han Liu, Yupan Kang, Yaojiang Shi, Zijian Zhao
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Abstract
The development of children’s non-cognitive abilities is crucial for both individuals and society as a whole. In this study, using a follow-up survey on 5369 primary students in rural ethnic regions of northwest China, we aim to examine the levels of parental involvement in rural ethnic regions and investigate its effect on students’ non-cognitive abilities. Our results show the following: first, parental involvement in rural ethnic regions of northwest China is quite low. Parents pay more attention to their children’s academic performance than to their non-cognitive abilities and the personal involvement is seriously lacking. Second, students from families with more favorable economic status, high parental education levels, non-migrant parents, and primary caregivers who are parents experience higher levels of parental involvement. Though Han students generally have higher maternal involvement and lower paternal involvement than minorities, the ethnic differences are reduced after controlling the covariates. Third, using the value-added model, after controlling for individual, family, class, county and baseline variables, we find that maternal behavioral and personal involvement and paternal cognitive and behavioral involvement have significant positive effects on children’s non-cognitive abilities. We use causal identification methods including propensity score matching and Mahalanobis distance matching to do the robustness test.
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Studies in Educational Evaluation publishes original reports of evaluation studies. Four types of articles are published by the journal: (a) Empirical evaluation studies representing evaluation practice in educational systems around the world; (b) Theoretical reflections and empirical studies related to issues involved in the evaluation of educational programs, educational institutions, educational personnel and student assessment; (c) Articles summarizing the state-of-the-art concerning specific topics in evaluation in general or in a particular country or group of countries; (d) Book reviews and brief abstracts of evaluation studies.