Parental Influences on Children's Academic Self-Regulatory Development

Abstract

completion of homework, literacy rates, and school dropout rates indicate alarming figures. Employers are increasingly unable to hire significant numbers of young Americans because they lack required reading, writing, and computational skills. In this age of information, the explosion of knowledge and need for technical skills has imposed an additional requirement on workers. Specifically, they need to be prepared for lifelong learning, and much of this learning must be selfinitiated and self-directed. Thus, the failure of students to become sufficiently self-regulatory to manage learning on their own is of considerable social concern.