The Influence of Parental Educational Expectations on Middle School Students'Mathematical Academic Achievement:An Analysis Based on Different Metacognitive Characteristics
Parental educational expectation is an important factor influencing children's academic achievement.This study focuses on the influence of parental educational expectations on the mathematical academic achievement of middle school students with different meta-cognitive characteristics.Using meta-cognition questionnaire survey and mathematics test,this study collected a match data of 1 127 students of grade 8 in a central city in China.Then a latent profile analysis model(LPA)was used to classify the students based on students'mathematical meta-cognition knowledge,mathematical meta-cognition experiences and mathematical meta-cognition monitoring.Four mathematics meta-cognition profiles were identified:low meta-cognition group,poor meta-cognition group,medium meta-cognition group,high meta-cognition group.Based on this classification,the study analyzed the influence of parental educational expectations on mathematical academic achievement in different groups of middle school students with different meta-cognitive characteristics.The results showed that parental educational expectations had a positive impact on mathematical academic achievement in all groups of middle school students with different meta-cognitive characteristics.However,as the level of meta-cognition increased,the impact of parental educational expectations became smaller.