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A Selective Bibliography:
Socioeconomic Class and Academic Achievement


Compiled by
Dr. Robert S. Carlisle



Anderson, A., Teale, W., & Estrada, E. (1980). Low-income children's
preschool literacy experiences: Some naturalistic observations. The Quarterly
Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 2(3): 59-65.
Applebee, A., Langer, J., & Mullis, I. (1986). The Writing Report Card: Writing
Achievement in American Schools. Princeton, NJ: NAEP.
Auerbach, E. (1989). Toward a socio-contextual approach to family literacy.
Harvard Educational Review, 59, 165-181.
Bulcock, J. W. (1977). Evaluating social facts related to school achievement in
Sweden and England. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 21, 63-96.
Caplan, N., Choy, M., & Whitmore, J. (1992). Indochinese refugee families and
academic achievement. Scientific American, 266(2), 36-42.
Carlisle, R. S. (1989). The writing of Anglo and Hispanic elementary students in
bilingual, submersion, and regular programs. Studies in Second Language
Acquisition, 11, 257-280.
Cherian, V. (1991). Parental aspiration and academic achievement of Xhosa
children. Psychological Reports, 68, 547-553.
Coleman, J., Campbell, E., Hobson, C., McPartland, J., Mood, A., Weinfeld,
F., & York, R. (1966). Equality of educational opportunity. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Office of Education, National Center of Educational Statistics.
Donelson, K. (1967). Variables distinguishing between effective and ineffective
writers in the tenth grade. Journal of Experimental Education, 35(4), 37-41.
Feitelson, D, & Goldstein, Z. (1986). Patterns of book ownership and reading to
young children in Israeli school-oriented and nonschool-oriented families. The
Reading Teacher, 39, 924-930.
Grant, W., & Eiden, L. (1982). Digest of educational statistics 1982.
Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
Grant, W., & Lind, C. (1975). Digest of educational statistics. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Guy, G. (1988). Language in social class. In F. J. Newmeyer (Ed.), The
Cambridge survey. Volume 4: Language: the socio-cultural context (pp. 37-63).
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Loban (1976). Language Development. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Morrow, L., & Paratore, J. (1993). Family literacy: Perspective and practices.
Reading Teacher, 47, 194-200.
National Assessment of Educational Progress. (1980a). Writing achievement,
1969-79: Results from the third national writing assessment: Vol. 1. 17-year-olds
(Report No. 10-W-01). Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States.
National Assessment of Educational Progress. (1980b). Writing achievement,
1969-79: Results from the third national writing assessment: Vol. 2. 13-year-olds
(Report No. 10-W-02). Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States.
National Assessment of Educational Progress. (1980c). Writing achievement,
1969-79: Results from the third national writing assessment: Vol. 1. 9-year-olds
(Report No. 10-W-03). Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States.
Ornstein, A., & Levine, D. (1989). Social class, race and school achievement:
Problems and perspectives. Journal of Teacher Education, 40(5), 17-23.
Ortiz, V. (1986). Reading activities and reading proficiency among Hispanic,
Black, and White students. American Journal of Education, 95, 58-76.
Philips, S. U. (1975). Literacy as a mode of communication on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation. In E. H. Lenneberg, & E. Lenneberg (Eds.), Foundations of
language development: A multidisciplinary approach, Vol. 2. (pp. 367-382). New
York: Academic Press.
Ryan, J. (1977). Family patterns of reading problems: The family that reads together.
In M. Douglas (Ed.), Cleremont reading conference: 41st yearbook (pp.
159-163). Claremont, CA: Claremont Graduate School.
Schultz, G. (1993). Socioeconomic advantage and achievement motivation:
Important mediators of academic performance in minority children in urban
schools. The Urban Review, 25, 221-232.
Snow, C. (1983). Literacy and language: Relationships during the pre-school
years. Harvard Educational Review, 53, 165-189.
Thorndike, R. (1973). International studies in evaluation: Vol. 3. Reading
comprehension education in fifteen countries. New York: Wiley.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1990). Statistical abstract of the United States: 1990
(110th edition). Washington, DC.
Woodfin, M. (1968). Correlations among certain factors and the written
expression of third grade children. Educational and Psychological Measurement,
28, 1237-1242.


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