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> So much for good intentions. The more the math-anxious parents tried to work with their children, the worse their children did in math, slipping more than a t
by leni536 11y ago
> So much for good intentions. The more the math-anxious parents tried to work with their children, the worse their children did in math, slipping more than a third of a grade level behind their peers.
OK, assume they found a negative correlation between grades and the amount of help of the parents. I'm not buying this explanation. Sure, if your kid has worse grades then you help him/her more on the critical subject.
- stdbrouw 11y agoThis is the study I believe they are referring to: http://cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/sites/cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Maloney%20et%20al%20(2015)%20Intergenerational%20effects.pdf http://cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/sites/cogdevlab.uchicago.edu/f... (PDF) > we tested the interaction between parents’ math anxiety and the frequency of parents’ homework help while controlling for students’ grade, gender, beginning-of-year math achievement, and beginning-of-year math anxiety So the study controls for baseline performance. It's definitely possible that some selection bias remains, but it looks like a reasonably well-executed study on a large sample (438 children) and I wouldn't discount the results out of hand.