Parents' and teachers' views of the child's academic potential
Parents (N = 97) and their child's class-teachers were instructed to rate the child's potential for improvement in mathematics and Finnish. The results showed that there was a moderate correlation between the parents' and teachers' ratings. The parents rated their child's potential more optimistically than the teachers did. Views of malleability may be seen as a potentially important factor in defining the child's educability.
Keywords: child's academic potential; educability; parents' and teachers' views
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Psychology, University of Joensuu, Joensuu 80101, Finland
Publication date: 01 May 2010
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