Abstract

The study examined relationships among family social status, perceptions of family and school learning environments, and measures of children?s academic achievement, educational aspirations and self?concept. Data were collected from 261 (128 boys, 133 girls) 11?year?old Taiwanese children. The findings from structural equation modelling suggest that: (a) family social status continues to have an unmediated association with children?s academic achievement, but its relationship to educational aspirations and self?concept is mediated by children?s perceptions of their more immediate learning environments, and (b) after taking into account differences in parents? aspirations and parental involvement, children?s perceptions of teachers have strong associations with self?concept but are not related to differences in academic achievement and educational aspirations