Related Experiment Video
Updated: Sep 26, 2025

Multimedia Battery for Assessment of Cognitive and Basic Skills in Mathematics BM-PROMA
Published on: August 28, 2021
Parents' daily involvement in children's math homework and activities during early elementary school
Jiawen Wu1, Michael M Barger2, Dajung Diana Oh1
1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Abstract:
This research examined parents' involvement in children's math homework and activities. During 2017 to 2019, American parents (N = 483; 80% mothers; 67% white) of young elementary school children (Mage = 7.47 years; 50% girls) reported on their math helping self-efficacy; they also reported on their involvement in children's math homework and activities daily for 12 days. At this time and a year later, children's math motivation and achievement were assessed. Parents' involvement in homework (vs. activities) was more affectively negative (d = .34), particularly among parents low in self-efficacy (d = .23). The more affectively negative parents' involvement, particularly in homework, the poorer children's later math motivation and achievement (βs = -.09 to .20).
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Information Processing Approach
Environmental Influences on Intelligence
Relationship with Other Adult Family Members and Siblings
Stereotype Threat and Self-fulfilling Prophecies
Piaget's Stage 3 of Cognitive Development
Conservation and Constancy of Quantity
A significant cognitive milestone in the...
Socioemotional Experience and Gender Development

