Hispanic Parents Involvement and Teachers Empowerment as Pathways to Hispanic English Learners Academic Performance Academic Article

abstract

• This study examines the relationship between Hispanic English learners learning, their parents involvement, and their teachers empowerment through professional knowledge. It is believed that Hispanic parents involvement in their childrens school activities is more influential to academic performance and educational attitudes than is teacher empowerment alone. A total of 339 Hispanic English learners, 339 parents, and 40 teachers participated in this study. Structural equation modelling was used. The analysis produced an empirical model with a nonsignificant value of 2 (53.11). Due to the nonsignificant difference of the p value, the empirical model was found to be a good fit. These results revealed that Hispanic parents involvement has a positive impact on their childrens academic performance, and that teachers empowerment has a negative impact when primarily focused on professional knowledge attainment only.

authors

• Rivera, Hector

published proceedings

• Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

author list (cited authors)

• Rivera, H., & Li, J.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Rivera, Hector||Li, Jui-Teng

publication date

• May 2019

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences  Journal

keywords

• 52 Psychology
• 5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology
• 5203 Clinical And Health Psychology
• 5205 Social And Personality Psychology
• Pediatric

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0739986319834931

start page

• 214

end page

• 230

volume

• 41

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986319834931